Jude Rogers (born 1978)[1] is a Welsh[2] journalist, lecturer, arts critic and broadcaster. She is a music critic for The Guardian[3] and also regularly writes features and articles for The Observer,[4] New Statesman[5] and women's magazines such as Red.[6] Her articles have also been published by The Times and by BBC Music[7] and she broadcasts on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4 and BBC 6 Music.[4] She is a senior lecturer in journalism at London Metropolitan University.[4][8]
Jude Rogers | |
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| Born | 1978 (age 45–46) Swansea, Wales |
| Occupation | Editor, critic, writer, lecturer |
| Education | Wadham College, Oxford Royal Holloway |
| Subject | Music |
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Early life and education
editRogers was born and bred in two villages near Swansea,[9][10] where she went to comprehensive school.[11] In 1997 Rogers became president of the students' union at Wadham College, Oxford.[11] She has a degree in English from the University of Oxford and an MA from Royal Holloway.[8]
Professional career
editIn 2003, Rogers co-founded the magazine Smoke: a London Peculiar.[12][13] After working as reviews editor on The Word, she became a full-time freelancer in 2007.[8]
She has been a judge on several music prize panels,[4] including the Welsh Music Prize[10][14] and the Mercury Prize,[10] and was one of ten experts chosen to write for the University of Westminster's MusicTank 10:10 project, writing about the future of music journalism.[4][15]
In 2017 she scripted an audio guided tour, narrated by Jarvis Cocker, for ABBA: Super Troupers, an exhibition at the Southbank Centre, London, about the Swedish pop group ABBA.[16]
In 2022, Rogers published The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, an account of the emotional and psychological impact of music. Reviewing the book, Ian Rankin wrote "Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and cerebral heft such music can have. It's a personal journey which becomes universal. Fascinating."[17][18]
Personal life
editShe and her husband Dan, whom she married in 2011,[19] have a son, Evan, born in 2014.[1] They live in Monmouthshire, Wales, having moved there in 2016[20] from Leyton, north east London.[9]
Publications
edit- Matt Haynes (editor) and Jude Rogers (editor): From the Slopes of Olympus to the Banks of the Lea, Smoke: a London Peculiar, 2013 ISBN 978-0957568006
- Jude Rogers and Alex Farebrother-Naylor: Pop!, Fisherton Press, 2016 ISBN 978-0993077333
- Jude Rogers: The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, White Rabbit Books (2022) ISBN 9781474622929
References
edit- ^ a b Rogers, Jude (25 November 2014). "Roy Rogers, by Jude". My Old Man. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ Rogers, Jude (16 February 2012). "Jude Rogers: The Welsh language is too precious to be allowed to disappear". The Independent. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ "Jude Rogers". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Jude Rogers". Faculty of Social Services and Humanities. London Metropolitan University. Archived from the original on 21 August 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ "Jude Rogers". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 31 December 2007. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ Rogers, Jude (1 July 2013). "Interviews: Vanessa Paradis". Red. Archived from the original on 9 July 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ "Music: Jude Rogers". BBC Music. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ a b c "Journalism lecturer has star quality". London Metropolitan University. 25 January 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ a b "Northbound". Smoke: a London Peculiar. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ a b c "Judges". Welsh Music Prize. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ a b Rogers, Jude (13 August 2009). "Look Back in Anger". New Statesman. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ Rogers, Jude (7 August 2013). "Tough deal". The Bookseller. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- ^ "Smoke: a London Peculiar magazine". Smoke: a London Peculiar. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ Elfyn, Bethan (17 October 2011). "Welsh Music Prize: let judging commence!". BBC Wales. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ Rogers, Jude (14 May 2013). "10 @ 10: Jude Rogers – The Future of Journalism". Music Tank. University of Westminster. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ Yeung, Vivien (23 November 2017). "Jarvis Cocker announced as narrator for new ABBA exhibition". Crack. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
- ^ "The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives". amazon. 7 August 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ Gower, Jon (10 June 2023). "Review, The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives". nation.cymru. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ Rogers, Jude (29 April 2011). "Here comes another bride". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ Rogers, Jude (30 July 2017). "Why I revisited every place I've ever lived". The Observer. Retrieved 27 November 2017.