(Pre)Millenial Tensions: Pop Music at the Precipice

…in association with CRELIQ (Centre le recherche en étude litteraire québécoise)

May 20-21, 2000
Université Laval, Québec City, Canada

SATURDAY MAY 20

8:00registration

9:00 – 10:30 American Musical Cultures

Mark Hayward (McGill University)
The Generational Politics of Music in 1950s Harlem

Anthony Kinik (McGill University)
The Artist as Collector/The Collector as Artist: Harry Smith’s Cabinet of Wonders and The Anthology of American Folk Music

Philomena McCullough (University of Minnesota)
‘The Sound of Young America’: Motown’s Commentary on the Post-Industrial U.S.A.

10:30 BREAK

10:45 – 12:15 Sound in Popular Music

Marie-Ève Bouchard (Université Laval)
La basse chromatique mineure descendante en musique populaire

Louise Legault
Encountering Aural Media in Public Places

Serge Lacasse (Université Laval)
Technology in Recorded Popular Music: Vocal Staging in Alanis Morissette’s ‘Front Row’ (1998)

12:15 LUNCH (University Pub)

13:30 – 15:00 Celebrity

Roger Chamberland (Université Laval)
Trois fois passera, le cheval y restera

Chantal Savoie (Université Laval)
La chanson sentimentale dans la culture populaire: Qui a peur de la dame en bleu?

Keir Keightley (University of Western Ontario)
The LP and the Development of Adult Pop in the Post-War Era

15:00 BREAK

15:15 – 14:15 Cultural Policy and Copyright

Paul Theberge (University of Western Ontario)
On Death and Rebirth: Music Industries and the Internet

Ira Wagman (McGill University)
Brave New Airwaves: MuchMusic and the Development of Canadian Music Video Programming 1979-1984

EVENING: Two Possible Concerts

1.Interférence Sardine (Fou Bar): Indie Experimental Rock Band
2.Les Jardiniers (Kashmir): Techno

SUNDAY MAY 21

8:30 WELCOME

9:00 – 10:30 Methodology and the Role of the Academic

Andy Bennett (University of Surrey)
‘This is my truth’: Issues in the Ethnographic Study of Popular Music

Mark Percival (Queen Margaret University College)
My Own Best Informant: Being a DJ and Researching Popular Music Radio in the UK.

Melissa West and Charity Marsh (York University)
The Politics of Academic Fandom In the Study of Popular Music

10:30 BREAK

10:15 – 12:15 Rock Cultures

Scott Henderson (Brock University)
Getting Knocked Down and Getting Back Up Again: Locating ‘Punk’ at the Millennium

Lilian Radovac (McGill University)
Renegotiating Rock: Post-Rock as a Site of Generic and Discursive Change

Craig Morrison (Concordia University)
The Folk Revival Roots of San Francisco Psychedelic Music

12:15 LUNCH (University Pub)

13:30 TRIBUTE TO GASTON ROCHON (Line Grenier)

14:00 – 16:00 Subcultures

Cynthia Fuchs (George Mason University)
‘Jigga Who?’: Identity and Autobiography in Player Hip Hop

Jessica Wurster (McGill University)
The Business of Resistance: Institutional Practices in Indie Pop

Nelson Fernandez (McGill University)
Subculture, Scene and Transcendence: Towards a Discourse on Community: The Case of Rave

Sheenagh Pietrobruno (McGill University)
Salsa’s Gendered Embrace: A Turn Backwards or Step Forwards for Male/Female Relations?

16:00Annual General Meeting