Music, Medicine & History Network - Wednesday seminar series 2023
Colleagues are warmly invited to join us for our inaugural Wednesday Seminar:
Wednesday 18th January, 3pm (UTC) on Zoom
Dr James Kennaway - University of Groningen
'Enchanted Technology: Sound and Mind Control in Conspiracy Theory'
This paper considers the role of sound and music technology in discussions of mind control in conspiracy theories over the past two hundred years. In particular, it will look at the deep continuities between the idea of music casting magical spells to control others and supposedly modern secular discourses of the power of music technology to influence or brainwash listeners. Indeed, advances in sound recording and broadcasting technology have regularly led not to a decline but to a boom in magical thinking on the subject, especially in the context of conspiracy theories.
Zoom link: https://newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/j/85496607816
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Dr Hannah Scott
NUAcT Fellow in French Cultural History
Newcastle University
Chair of the Music, Medicine and History Network @MusicMedHistory
Latest publications:
-- Singing the English: Britain in the French Musical Lowbrow, 1870-1904 (London and New York: Routledge, 2022) https://www.routledge.com/Singing-the-English-Britain-in-the-French-Musical-Low-Brow-18701904/Scott/p/book/9780367416126
-- ‘The Singing Linguist: Popular Songs on Fin-de-siècle Language Learning’, Contemporary French Civilization, 46:4 (2021), 373–93
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