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Popular Music & Popular Culture: Intersections & Histories

May 9-11, 2008
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario

FRIDAY MAY 9

9:00am-10am Registration/Coffee

10:00am-11:45

National Identities: Real and Imagined

Laura Taylor
Nordic Nationalisms: Black Metal Takes Norway’s Institutional Racism to the ‘Extreme’

Greg Gillespie
Heinous Highlandism?: The Album Covers and Gig Posters of The Real Mackenzies

Illa Carrillo Rodríguez
Performing National Culture and Identity: The Vicissitudes of Rock Nacional in Early 1980s Argentina

Christina Baade
Performing British Heritage? Place, Memory, and Big Bands in the 2000s

Criticism and Genre

Hélène Laurin
Talk Dirty To Me: Notes on the Relationship Between Rock Criticism and Heavy Metal

William Echard
Nine Times the Colour Red Explodes: Topic Theory, Genre Boundaries and Psychedelia

Terrance Cox
The Sun Sessions Paradigm: Introducing a Multi-Perspective Approach to StudyingPopular Music

Stéphanie Molinero
L’histoire du rap et de son étude en France (Rap and Its Study in France)

11:45- 1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:45

DJs Radio and Beyond

Stephane Girard
Propositions méthodologiques pour l’analyse structurale des performances de disc jockey enregistrées sur disque compact (Analysis of DJ Performance)

Matt Raimondo
“A Digital Diaspora: Vinyl Emulation and Popular Music”

Brian Fauteux
Campus Frequencies: Campus-Community Broadcasting and the Theory and Practice      of “Alternative”

Mark Percival
Radio and the Sound of Popular Music

Soundtracks

Raphaël Roth
Emblème musical et culture populaire : vers une sémio sociologie de la musique du monde « merveilleux » de Disney

Brigit Knecht
Social Discourse in Modern Musical Theatre

Samy Azouz
Black Popular Art: Music and the Construction of Identity

Stephanie Morgan

“I’m Wasted and I Can’t Find My Way Home”: Mullet Rock and Masculinity in Supernatural

3:00pm-4:45

Close Readings of Songs

Alex Carpenter
“Bela Lugosi’s Dead”: Bauhaus and the Emergence of a Goth Rock Aesthetic

Nicholas Greco
Melody is Not Dead: the Case of Feist’s “1234”

Marlie Centawer
Reconstructing Pop: Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg’s “Je t’aime (moi non plus)”

Sundar Subramanian
Saying “Yes” To Semiology: Form and Syntax in “Close to the Edge

Traditions and Ethnography

Kati Szego
Gender in Atlantic Canadian Ukulele Ensembles

Mehdi Trabelsi
La musique algérienne dans l’œuvre ethnomusicologique de Béla Bartók

Graham Blair
Silver Linings: Bluegrass Recordings and the Writing of “Tradition”

Melissa Avdeeff
iPod Culture and the Potential for Gender Differences: A Burns Lake Case Study

5:00pm-6:30

Gendered Identities

Susan Tkachuk
Cult, Cultural Distinctions and the Carnivalesque in Tori Amos’ ‘Boys For Pele’

Kimberly Randall
The Power of Industry: Music and the Construction of Gender

Charity Marsh
Reluctant Warrior (s)?: Reflections on Indigenity, Gender, and Technology in Canadian Hip Hop

Issues of Technology

Paul Sanden
Performance, Electronic Technology and Liveness: Reconsidering  the “Live” in Mediatized Music

Alan Stanbridge
Fun With Toys: Popular Music and Discourses of Technology

Jeff Donkersgoed
Revolution, Mystery and Monsters: A Case Study in Genre Complications Due to the Extreme Uses of Technology by Popular Musicians in the 1960s

SATURDAY MAY 10

8:30am-9:00 Registration

9:00am-10:45

Appropriations

Norma Coates
Why Are The Dresden Dolls in Nancy’s Living Room? And Mine? Indie Music, Weeds and the Representation of the Suburbs

Kyle Devine
World Music in the Western Church: The Case of the Wild Goose Resource Group

Karen Collins
Cover Songs in 8-bit Game Audio

Michael Jarrett
A Bit of Business: The Cinematic Record Player

The Body, Identity and Subjectivity in Performance

Mark Harris
Orchestrating Desire and Conducting Bodies: The Sound Sex Project

Pascal Bujold
Video Track Instead of a Click Track: A Creation-Based Research

MaryFogarty
Morality in Popular Dance Practices

Susana Loza
Sampling Spirituality: New Age Ravers, Cultural Appropriation, and the Construction of Self

11:00-12:45

Artists and Meanings

Line Grenier and Chantal Savoie
Never-Ending “Open Book”: Linking Issues of Intimacy and Temporality in Céline Dion’s D’Elles

Michael Audette-Longo
Bob Dylan-as-Signifier: Reframing Understanding Through Intermediation and Discourse

Eric Smialek
The Unforgiven: A Reception Study of Metallica and “Sell-Out” Allegations

Stacy Allison
Exposing the “Secret Life of the Love Song”: Musical Representations of Love in Rufus Wainwright’s “This Love Affair”

Style and Performance

Leanne Fetterley
“Hey, Hey, I Wanna Be a Rockstar”: Nickelback, Sincerity, and Authenticity

Jacqueline Warwick
Voice and Vocality

Heather White Luckow
“Red is Stop and Green’s for Going”: Stasis versus Movement in Joni Mitchell’s Early Music

Kate Galloway
Rufus “Do It Again”: Rufus Wainwright Recreates and Pays Tribute to Judy Garland’s 1961 Carnegie Hall Performance

2:15pm-3:15pm

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Carl Wilson. “Can You Talk a Few Bars of That? Music Vs. Words in Pop Criticism.”

3:30-4:45

Politics

Kristine Weglarz
From Music to Voting Blocs: An Analysis of Popular Musicians and Political Persuasion

Sally Bick
A Communist Anthem in Capitalist Clothing

Carmen Barbu
The Rock That Doesn’t Roll: Reviving East German Popular Music

Space, Place and Identity

Deepak Mehmi
Launch the Metaphorical Afronaut

Chris Richardson
Moral Panic and Identity Politics in Bloc Party’s A Weekend in the City

Martin Lussier
Categorize Me! “Emergent Musics”, Becoming-Together and Singularity

SUNDAY MAY 11

8:30am-9am Registration

9:00am-10:45

Technology and Downloading

Durrell Bowman
“Hammond’s Folly” Revisited: Turning the Tables on Music Mega-Corporations

Alex Cummings
Technology, Counterculture and the Bootleg Boom

Anthony Cushing
The Grey Album and Mash-Ups: A Study in Subversive Economics

Jeremy Morris
Click to Buy: iTunes and the Digital Music Commodity

English Canadian Identity

Andrew Vincent
Another Cross-Canada Tour: a Spatial History of Canadian Independent Music

Gordon Ross
Toward a Philosophy of the Ecology of Identity

Christopher Cwynar
Through the Fields, Across the Yard: Suburban Alienation and the Canadian Pastoral in the Music of the Rheostatics

Richard Sutherland
Loosened Ties: Thinking Beyond the Band in Canadian Indie Rock

11:00-12:45

Identity and Hybridity

Thomas Hodgson
Fear and Loathing in Lost Bradford: The Political Antimonies of a Music in Diaspora, circa 1989

Margaret Jackson
Representing the Ruhrpott: Hip Hop, Immigrant Youths, and the Story of a Struggling German City

Tom Caw
M.I.A.: Representing the World Town

Practitioners and Classifiers: Scholars, Collectors and Classification

Keir Keightley
Lounge Duree

Anna Szemere
Ice-T Meets Schopenhauer: Some Thoughts on the Field of Popular Music Studies

Karen Snell
Embodied Performance in Popular Music: Considerations for Music Educations

Simon Poole
Nostalgie de la bou

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