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Dear all, Birmingham City University and The University of West Indies invites you to a forthcoming international conference on reggae culture and sound system innovation. The conference, which brings together leading researchers and professionals, will be hosted in The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire at BCU, with its world-leading concert venues and conference facilities. Collectively, these BCU events mark the first stage of a series of co-produced research and external engagement activities which will investigate music diversity, cultural innovation and visualisation. Like this conference, forthcoming events will place the spotlight on music-innovation and heritage through a series of workshops and plenary sessions on visual culture, technology and new collaborations. Presentations will address the following conference sub-themes: · Innovation through heritage, from mento to dancehall · Innovation for heritage beyond dancehall · Reggae musicians and innovation case studies · Reggae, music and gender · Reggae and the music industry; new forms, new marketing, new audiences · Jamaican and diasporic sonicities · Reggae’s new music, new media, and new technologies · Exploring reggae’s inner and outer spaces and locations · Reggae in and out of popular music studies · Creativity: from theory to practice; methods and processes · Reggae in transition: reinventing reggae - reconfigurations, collaborations and crossovers · Reggae futures Also, please join us for the Reggae Gala, featuring Sound System set by Rusty Rebel and Junior Quaker; and the Evening Sound System & Lounge - Featuring Wassifa with Jah 9 at the Birmingham Conservatoire. Draft Programme: Day 1 09:30 – 10:00 Registration 10:00 – 10:10 Welcome 10:10 – 11:00 Keynotes (Joint) Professor Sonja Stanley Niaah & Dr. Les Johnson 11:00 – 11:45 In Conversation with Jah 9 11:45 – 12:00 Break 12:05 – 13:00 Film and Panel Presentations 13:00 – 13:40 Lunch 14:00 – 14:50 Parallel Presentations 15:00 – 15:50 Parallel Presentations 16:00 – 17:45 Parallel Presentations 18:00 – 19:30 Reggae Gala (Evening Meal) featuring Sound System set by Rusty Rebel and Junior Quaker 19:30 – 22:00 Evening Sound System and Lounge - Featuring Wassifa with Jah 9 Day 2 09:00 – 13:00 Breakfast Meeting To get a full break down of the conference registration costs please check out our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reggae-innovation-conference-tickets-43928155295 FAQ Question: Where can I contact the organiser with any questions? Answer: Please email: [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------- 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. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------