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Popular Music: Taste, Text and Market

March 13 – 15, 1998
Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

FRIDAY MARCH 13

1:00 – 2:00 Registration

2:00 – 3:30 Rhythm and Reception

Sheenagh Pietrobruno
Is Anybody Dancing to the Music?: Locating Dance in Popular Music Studies
Jim Martens
“Cars and Girls Are Easy to Come By in this Day and Age”: Consumerism, Class and Youth Culture in England 1957-1967
Scott Henderson
Dancing Out of the Dark: Electronic Dance Music and the Video Audience

3:45 – 5:15 Communities, Cultures, Citizens

Line Grenier
And the Winner Is…Celine Dion
Val Morrison
Citizenship, Music and the Public Management of Identity
Peter Narvaez
Mowing Pat Murphy’s Meadow: Newfoundland Song in Ireland

SATURDAY MARCH 14

8:45 – 9:30 Registration

9:30 – 11:00 High/Low

Bernard Gendron
The Beatles, the High Brows and the Rock Critics
Holly Everett
Garage Sales and Ice Cream: Marketing Classical Music to Popular Audiences in Austin
Susana Loza
Unbearable Whiteness of Techno(logy) and House’s Heart of Darkness

11:15 – 1:15 Popular Music, Race and Ethnicity

Brigido Galvan
Lugar Latino: Time, Space, Technology and the Politics of Place in Latin American Music Practices in Canada
Sophie Morrisette
L’exotisme à consommer: les nuits d’Afrique de Montréal
Ellie Hisama
The Cultural Work of Miss Saigon: A Post-colonial Critique
Venice Berry
The Rap Experience: Diversity and Interpretation

1:15 – 2:30 Lunch

2:30 – 4:30 Classic Rock: Aesthetics and Markets

Craig Morrison
Moby Grape: A Whale of a Tale
David Montgomery
“He Gonna Come Back, Tomorrow”: Performance, Dramatis Personae, Mode and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band’s “Tomahawk Kid.”
Uldis Kundrats
Ben Franklin, Brevity and the Byrds
Thomas Boehm
Beatles and LSD: Aspects of Drug Influence on Music

4:45 – 6:15 Subcultural Formations

Mark Percival
Hardcore Listening: The Relationship Between Alternative Music Communicties in Scotland and BBC Radio
Andy Bennett
Contemporary Dance Music, Collective Identity and the Appropriation of Urban Space
Geoff Stahl
Size Matters: The Social and Use-Value of the 7-Inch

SUNDAY MARCH 15

9:30 – 11:30 Girls on Top

Lisa Soccio
Cibo Matto
Nicholas Baxter-Moore
“Girl Power”: Gender and Genre in Popular Music from Girl Groups to the Spice Girls
Kembrew McLeod
Liz Phair
Cynthia Fuchs
“I Can Take It Like a Pro”: Sex, Politics and the New Hip Hop Girls

11:45 – 1:15 Institutionalizing the Audience

Roger Chamberland
Culture de goût ou culture de groupe? Une étude du top ten
Darrin Keane
Regional Representation Versus Hit-Making: Canadian Music Policy at the Crossroads
Yves Laberge
Cultural Industries and the Networks of Distribution

1:15 – 2:30 Lunch

2:30 – 4:30 Jazz and Cocktails

Jonnie Bakan
On the ‘phenomenon’ and ‘essence’ of Strange Fruit
Michael Morse
Two Satiric Versions of Cocktails for Two
Keir Keightley
Early World Music
Robert Sloane
Resisting Resistance: The Lounge Music Revival

4:45 – 5:30 Annual General Meeting

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