Monthly Archives: June 2012

Music, Politics, Agency 4: Music, Creativity and Capitalism

By jeremygilbert | Published: 22 June 2012

Wednesday 27 June 2012
EB.1.03, UEL, Docklands Campus, 11:00-18:00
11:00-13:00: Commerce, Creativity and Capitalism
Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism
Jeremy Gilbert, author of Anticapitalism and Culture, CCSR/UEL
Chair: Tim Lawrence
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-16:00: Music and Neoliberal Capitalism
Dave Hesmondhalgh, author of Creative Labour, University of Leeds
Timothy Taylor, author of The Sounds of Capitalism, UCLA
Chair: Tim Lawrence
16:00-18:00: Panel discussion: Musicianship, Capitalism and Cultural Policy
Graham Jeffrey, University of the West of Scotland
Douglas Lonie, Youth Music
Ewan [...]

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Critical Beats 4: Dancing, Sound Systems and Party Environments

By jamiehakim | Published: 18 May 2012

[ 14 June 2012; 19:30 to 21:30. ]
The Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London presents the final event in the CB series:

Critical Beats #4: Dancing, Sound Systems and Party Environments

Circus 2 at Stratford Circus, £3/£1

Why do different scenes generates different forms of dancing? How do differently configured sound systems create different party environments? Does the quality of sound [...]

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