Keynote Speaker: Professor Cornel Sandvoss (University of Huddersfield) –
“To Listen and to Make Yourself Heard: Value, Identity and Citizenship in Popular Music Fandom”
In the mainstream media, popular music fandom has traditionally been associated with collective displays of emotion. Yet music fandom is actually about a range of things: shared tastes and personal convictions, individual subjectivity and wider community. Fandom does not exist entirely in private nor entirely in public, but is characterized by a process of continual mediation between the two. The symposium features papers from an international group of over 20 speakers and will be based in room 107 on the first floor of the Binks Building on the University of Chester's main Parkgate Road campus It will start at 9.15am and finish at 5pm. ALL WELCOME. This is a free event, but registration is essential. For more details please see:
http://pop-music-research.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/popular-music-fandom-and-public-sphere.html
Organizers: Dr Mark Duffett (University of Chester) and Dr Koos Zwaan (InHolland University of Applied Sciences).
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