Everyone
An apt conference given the recent postings on music.
Peace and love :-)
Shaun
'Remembering Woodstock' at the University of Kent
The Department of Sociology at the University of Kent will hold a
meeting to mark the 30th anniversary of the legendary rock festival,
Woodstock, on Thursday 11 February 1999.
Woodstock, which featured such groups and artists as the Who, Country
Joe and the Fish, Ten Years After, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, is
remembered as much for its 'bringing together' of the counter-cultural
generation as for the music performed. The event represented a
milestone in the use of music as a medium for political expression
while simultaneously acting as a springboard for the more expressly
commercial of rock and pop events which were to follow. Woodstock has
also become the subject of many books and documentaries which have
served to mythologise the event in the public imagination.
These different aspects of Woodstock will be discussed by a range of
expert speakers. The conference programme is as follows:
Dave Laing (University of Westminster) 'Woodstock and the Industry of
Rock'
Dave Laing is a Research Fellow and popular music journalist. He is
author of 'One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock' (Open
University Press, 1985).
Frank Furedi (University of Kent) Bare bottoms and 'B.S.': 'Woodstock
stripped naked'
Frank Furedi is a Reader in Sociology. He is author of 'Culture of
Fear', Cassell 1997
Sheila Whiteley (University of Salford) '1, 2, 3 What are we fighting
4 ?' Music, Meaning and the Star Spangled Banner'
Sheila Whiteley is a Reader in Popular Music. She is author of 'The
Space Between the Notes' (Routledge 1992) and editor of Sexing the
Groove (Routledge, 1997).
John Street (University of East Anglia) 'This is your Woodstock:
Political myths and popular memories'
John Street is a Senior Lecturer in Politics. His books include 'Rebel
Rock' (Blackwell, 1986) and 'Politics and Popular Culture' (Polity,
1997).
The event is the second in a series of meetings about popular culture
and political movements of the sixties.
The meeting is open to members of the media but places are strictly
limited and must be booked in advance.
For more information on Remembering Woodstock contact Andy Bennett
([log in to unmask]) or Sally Harris ([log in to unmask]) at the
Department of Sociology, University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent, CT2
7NY, Tel.: 01227 827816.
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Dept of Sociology and Dept of Anthropology
Eliot College, University of Kent at Canterbury
Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NS
phone: 01227 764000 ext.7267
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Shaun Fielding email: [log in to unmask]
School of Education phone: (+44) 121 414 4378
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