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Colleagues, Can I draw your attention to the following conference taking place next week at Northumbria University. Places are available if you would like to attend. A Special Relationship? Irish Popular Music in Britain An interdisciplinary conference to be hosted at Northumbria University in conjunction with the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster 27 – 28 June 2012 Conference Programme Tuesday 26th June 7.30pm Welcome Event and Book Launch of Rock and Popular Music in Ireland: Before and After U2 by Noel McLaughlin and Martin McLoone. The event takes place in Popolo, 82-84 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle NE1 6SG. Directions here Wednesday 27th June 9.30 Tea and Coffee Foyer of Lipman Building. 9.45 Room 0026 Lipman Building: Welcome Address: Dr Noel McLaughlin (Northumbria University) 10.00 Room 0026 Panel 1: Folk roots and Pop routes: The Irish in Britain Dave Laing, Freelance writer and academic, ‘Clare to Here: the Irish dimension of the English Folk Revival’ Professor Rebecca Miller, Hampshire College, Massachusetts, US ‘Hucklebucking at the Tea Dances: Irish Showbands in 1960s Britain’ Q&A/Discussion 11.15 Tea and Coffee Room 032 Lipman Building 11.30 Room 0026 Panel 2: Van Morrison: The Dweller on the Threshold? Professor Stephen Regan, Durham University ‘The Allusive Van Morrison’ Dr Peter Mills, Leeds Metropolitan University Paper title: ‘Song of Home - Van Morrison and the idea of exile’ Q&A/Discussion 1.00 – Lunch Room 032 Lipman Building 2.00 Panel 3. The Irish in Britain in the 1970s: The ‘Popular’ and the ‘Serious’. Professor Gerry Smyth, Liverpool John Moores – [log in to unmask] Paper title: ‘The interesting case of Val Doonican’ Dr Matteo Cullen Paper title: ‘From The Clifton Grange to Ladbroke Grove and the Isle of Wight: Irish Rock and Britain, 1968-78’ Q&A/Discussion 3.15. Tea and Coffee Room 032 Lipman Building 3.45 Panel 4. Music, politics and contact zones Anthony Walker, University of St Andrews. ‘Piping in a Time of Peace - The influence of terrorism on Irish Traditional Music’ Gareth Dylan Smith, The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, London. ‘“Everybody's Welcome to the Hooley! A haon, do, trí, ceathair!”: A case study of a London-Irish trad/punk musician’ Q&A/Discussion 7.30 Dinner at El Torero Restaurant, Milburn House, Side City Centre, NE1 1PR. Directions here Thursday 28th June 9.30 Tea and Coffee – Lipman Foyer 10.00 Opening Keynote: Dr Sean Campbell, Anglia Ruskin University. Q&A/Discussion 11.15 Tea and Coffee Room 032 Lipman Building 11.30 Panel 5: Over-views and Comparative Contexts Professor Martin McLoone, University of Ulster ‘Authenticity and Hybridity in Irish Popular Music’ Professor Richard Ekins, University of Ulster ‘“Dying Embers”, Maintaining Authenticity and New Orleans Jazz Revivalism: The Case of Liverpool's Merseysippi Jazz Band’ Q&A/Discussion 1.00 Lunch Room 032 Lipman Building 2.00 Panel 6. Irish post-punk in Britain Dr Claire Monk, De Montfort University ‘The Virgin Prunes in England’ Dr Kevin J. Donnelly, Southampton University ‘“Heresie” or “A New Form of Beauty”: the Inassimilable Virgin Prunes’ [log in to unmask] Q&A/Discussion 3.15 Tea and Coffee Room 032 Lipman Building 3.30 Panel 7. On the Edges of Irishness? Dr Noel McLaughlin, Northumbria University ‘Peripherally Queer: Inbetween-ness and Mary Cigarettes’ Michael Waugh, Northumbria University ‘“Jynweythek Ylow” (“Machine Music”): Futuristic Braindance, Celtic Pastoralism & Hybridised Irishness in the Aphex Twin Myth’ Q&A and Closing Round table. ................................................................................................. Martin McLoone Professor of Media Studies (Film, Television and Photography) Centre for Media Research School of Media, Film and Journalism University of Ulster Coleraine Northern Ireland BT52 1SA +44 (0)28 7032 4372 New Book: 'Rock and Popular Music in Ireland: Before and After U2' (Irish Academic Press) http://www.irishacademicireland.com/acatalog/IAP_Catalog_Forthcoming_13.html -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. 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