PUBLIC SEMINAR
Wednesday 7 June, 5:00 – 6:30
BURSTING AT THE SEAMS: ‘YOUTH’, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL AND CINEMA IN LATE 1950s AMERICA
Kay Dickinson, Goldsmiths College, University of London
This talk centres around the moment in the late 1950s when the U.S. film industry began expressing a commercial desire to appeal to an adolescent market, aiming, in the process, to incorporate the increasingly popular music of rock ‘n’ roll into its narrative themes, while keeping black musicians on the sidelines of film plots. This talk will address how all the available, yet differently situated means of film-music consumption (including engagement with objects like records, car radios and movie theatres) in this clearly racist context play out across the inscription, containment and commodification of youth in that era.
Organised by the CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND MEDIA, Institute of Education, University of London
Seminar will be held at the London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, London WC1N 3QS
For directions to the Lab, see http://www.lkl.ac.uk/contacts/index.html
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