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POPULAR MUSIC AND AUTOMOBILE CULTURE: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM
Next Friday (22nd June, 2012)
Binks Building, University of Chester, England
9.30am-4.30pm, Room CBK 013/1
This is a free symposium. No registration is required and everyone is welcome. Please email Dr Chris Hart ( [log in to unmask] ) if you wish to attend.
The following speakers are giving papers in two parallel streams...
Philip Tagg: Shaving, Biking and Guitar Distortion: The Rock Daredevil Trope and Rock Consumerism
Justin A. Williams: Toward a Sloanist Theory of Popular Music Production
Tim Wall and Nick Webber: Rock 'n' Roll: Cars, Convergence and Culture
Claire Evans:'It’s the Equivalent of Going Backstage at a Music Show’: Popular Music, Celebrity and Formula One
Georgina Gregory: 'She’s My Little Deuce Coupe': Freudian Transformation in the Car Songs of The Beach Boys.
Roddy Hawkins: Travelling at the Speed of Sound? Top Gear Compilations as (British) Musical Expressions of Driving
Barbara Hornberger: 'Ich will Spaß, ich geb Gas': A German Pop Song Between Fun, Society and Subversion
Phylis Johnson: Moving Sounds: Hearing 'Route 66' on the Car Radio Then and Now
Craig Owen Jones: Driving On The A470: Cars and Roads in Welsh-language Rock and Hip-Hop Music
David Kane: The Motorcycle as a Rock Icon
Chris Lezotte: 'Born to Take the Highway': The Automobile, Women and Rock-n-Roll
Santiago Niño Morales: 'Las Chivas': Fiesta in Motion
Alice Price-Styles: 'Born To Roll’: An Examination of Jeep Culture in The Music of Masta Ace
Jon Stewart: ‘Motorpsycho Nightmare’: Bob Dylan and Car Culture
Charles E. Sykes: The Auto Assembly Line: Metaphor and Model for Motown
Tim Summers: Music in Racing Video Games
About the organisers:
Dr Chris Hart is Senior Lecturer in Advertising at Chester. He recently co-managed the largest study done to date into the economics and social impact of historic vehicles in Europe.
Dr Mark Duffett is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Chester. He is known as a popular music scholar whose central interests include fandom and Elvis Presley.
Dr Beate Peter is a member of the Institute for Performance Research at Manchester Metropolitan University with research interests in music psychology and popular culture. Her comparative study of techno in Detroit and Berlin is to be published in Spring 2012.
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