Apologies for cross posting.
Registration is now open for the symposium 'Love and Sentimentalism in Popular Music', to be held at Royal Holloway, 27-28 June 2013.
Please visit the following link to register: http://onlinestore.rhul.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=408&modid=1&compid=1
Spaces are extremely limited so be sure to book early if you would like to come.
For further information please visit http://loveandsentimentalisminpopularmusic.wordpress.com/ and for any enquiries please contact James Butterworth ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
See below for the draft programme:
Day 1 – Thursday 27th June
9.15am Registration over Tea and Coffee
9.45pm Welcome
10.00am Migration, Displacement, and Emplacement
Vivi Lachs
Singing in Yiddish about Love, Sex and the Anglo-Jewish Immigrant Experience at the turn of the Twentieth Century
Marie Saunders
Burns’ popular songs and a Scottish Identity.
Aileen Dillane
Performing American Sentimentality: ‘Danny Boy’ as Ethnic Avatar.
11.30am Morning Tea
12.00pm Love, Revolution and Cosmopolitanism
Gay Breyley
‘Velvet Pain’: Love and Sentimentalism in Googoosh’s 1975 pop hit ‘Divorce’
Martin Stokes
Rescoring Abd al-Halim's 'Love Story'
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Gender, Sexuality, and Emotion
Moshe Morad
“I am Bolero!”: Queer appropriation and identification of gay men in Cuba with Bolero music.
Emily Gale
Sentimental Songs for Sentimental Men
Leonidas Econmou
Love and individualism in the Greek laiko song
3.30pm Tea Break
3.45pm Love and Sentimentalism in Anglo-American Popular Music
Owen Hubbard
Vibrato and Sentimentalism in Mid-20th Century Western Popular Music
Patrick Alexander
Anthems for Consumed Youth: Indie-Pop Love Songs and the Construction of Age Imaginaries
4.45pm Tea Break
5.15pm Keynote: Christine Yano
6.30pm Drinks Reception
7.30pm Optional Buffet Dinner on Campus
Day 2 – Friday 28th June
10.00am Mobilizing Sentimentality: Politicizing the Affective in the Pre/Post-Yugoslav Spaces
Srđan Atanasovski
Towards the Somatic Nationalism: Interlacing Sentimentality and Nationalism in the Pages of Family Music Albums
Ana Petrov
The Songs We Love to Sing and the History We Like to Remember: Singing and Crying in the Concerts after the Wars in Yugoslavia
Ana Hofman
(Anti)Sentimentality, Nostalgia and “New Sincerity”: Garage Choirs´ Performances in Post-Yugoslav Spaces
11.30am Morning Tea
12.00pm National and Regional Ways of Loving in Mexico
León F. García Corona
Love, Music, and Social Aspirations in Mid-Century Mexico City
Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
Love, the Yucatecan Way: Trova Music in Yucatan
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Love, Sentimentalism and Public Spheres
Daniel White
The Ethics of Sound in Japanese Public Broadcasting
Vebhuti Duggal and Aditi Deo
Jab pyaar kiya toh darna kya: The love-song and the love of song in Hindi film music culture
Simone Luci Pereira
Love, saudade, nostalgia - dialogues between two sentimental songs (Bolero and Bossa nova)
3.30pm Tea Break
4.00pm Roundtable Disucssion
5.30pm Free time
6.30pm Conference Dinner in Egham
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