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> PUBLIC SEMINAR
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Organised by the CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND MEDIA,
> Institute of Education, University of London
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> 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/
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