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Apologies for cross-posting ------ Registration for this event is £45 and £25 concessions, and will include tea, coffee, a sandwich lunch and drinks. To register, please follow this link: http://store.london.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=5&catid=34&prodid=747 ------- MUSIC AND CAPITALISM IN HISTORICAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Wednesday 8 October 2014 Room G22/26, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Institute of Musical Research (IMR), University of London Convener: Anna Morcom, Royal Holloway, University of London Kindly supported by the Music and Letters Trust, the Royal Holloway Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) and the Royal Holloway Music Department 10.00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE EMBRACING CAPITALISM AND MAKING IT WORK Chair: Alan Bradshaw, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, School of Management, Royal Holloway 10.30 Copyright, capitalism and 'religion': A postcolonial critique of Karnatic Music,Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan, Teaching Assistant in Religion at the Division of Literature and Languages, University of Stirling 11.00 Rap music and street capitalism, David Diallo, Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Anglophone Cultures and Literatures, l'Université de Bordeaux 11.30 Welcome to Church(tm): The evolving use of music, media and marketing in the United States and beyond, Tom Wagner, Teaching Fellow, Music Department, University of Edinburgh 12.00 Music, Labor, and Value in Indian Music Stores, Jayson Beaster-Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Music and Performance Studies at Texas A&M University 12.30 LUNCH STRUGGLES, LIMITS, RESISTANCE AND AMBIVELANCE Chair: tbc 13.30 Richard Wagner and 'music drama', Mark Berry, Lecturer, Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London 14.00 Through a Capitalist Lens: Performances of Zapatista Music in the Tourist Economy of San Cristobal de las Casas, Andrew Green, PhD student, Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London 14.30 'I Want the Moon': Negotiating Capitalism and Creativity in the Commercial Music Industry through Acts of Resistance, Leah O'Brien Bernini, PhD student, Music Department, University of Limerick KEYNOTE SPEECH Chair: Byron Dueck, Lecturer, Music Department, Open University 15.00 Meaningful Action: Forms of Value of Cultural Commodities, Timothy Taylor, Professor of Ethnomusicology, School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles 16.00 TEA BREAK CAPITALISM AND OTHER ECONOMIC LOGICS Chair: Patrick Neveling, Senior Researcher, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Sociology, University of Utrecht; Visiting Professor, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg. 16.30 The Many Capitalisms of the U. S. Music Business, 1930-1970, Charles F. McGovern, Associate Professor, American Studies and History, College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 17.00 'Theorizing' the Social Musician, Tim J. Anderson, Associate Professor, Communication and Theatre Arts Department, Old Dominion University 17.30 Music, potlatch and capitalism - articulation and ritual in Central Africa and beyond, Joe Trapido, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, London 18.00 Drinks reception 19.00 End ------------------ Dr Anna Morcom Music Department Royal Holloway, University of London Now available: Illicit worlds of Indian dance: Cultures of exclusion For more information see: http://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/illicit-worlds-of-indian-dance/ For the US: http://global.oup.com/academic/product/illicit-worlds-of-indian-dance-9780199343546?cc=gb&lang=en& Available in South Asia as: Courtesans, bar girls and dancing boys: Illicit worlds of Indian dance. For more information see: http://www.hachetteindia.com/TitleDetails.aspx?titleId=44563