Tutor information
Rikky Rooksby
Rikky Rooksby is a tutor at OUDCE with a PhD in English Literature. He is a guitar teacher and composer, and author of many articles, reviews and books on English literature and popular music, including an 11-volume songwriting series that started in 2000 with the best-selling How To Write Songs On Guitar.
His Oxford Experience summer school courses include The Beatles, Popular Music and Sixties Britain and British Popular Music 1963-73. He is currently working on a book about the C20th symphony.
Courses
Using music and film, this course tells the amazing story of the legendary first performance of Stravinsky's ballet score, the modernist 'The Rite of Spring' in Paris, 1913, and its aftermath.
Explore the imaginative character of mid-20th century British Neo-Romanticism, including the writings of Virginia Woolf and Dylan Thomas; the art of Piper, Nash, and Ravilious; and the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Learn how the Beatles made their music, and trace its development from simple first recordings to the multi-track of Abbey Road in the context of examples of Top 30 charts of the era, poetry, journalism, photographs, film and key cultural events.