Jacqueline Springer worked with Artangel on Longplayer Assembly – joining 23 other participants in a non-stop 12-hour conversation relay presented live online on 26 September 2020, marking the twentieth anniversary of Longplayer.
Springer is a broadcast music journalist, university lecturer and event curator. She has worked as a Senior Broadcast Journalist for the BBC and contributed to conversations on contemporary music, culture and representation. She has also worked at Radio 1, 1xtra, The World Service and 6Music and contributed to output on BBC Radio 4, 5live and television (BBC Four, BBC2, BBC News Channel). Jacqueline works independently exploring race, culture and musical expression under the banner of Contemporary Black Music Culture.
She has lectured at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Purdue University, Indiana and London College of Communication. She is also a co-founder of fashion, culture and identity studies event curation duo Union Black (London College of Fashion, British Library, the Victoria & Albert Museum) where the relationship between music, sartorial style, race and cultural identities are explored via bespoke commissions. She currently teaches courses on race, gender, music, class and media at Syracuse and Fordham Universities in London.