EB.1.03, UEL, Docklands Campus
The final event in the Music, Politics, Agency series, this one day conference explores debates around music, creativity and cultural policy in a time of advancing Neoliberalism. Contributors include, Mark Fisher, Jeremy Gilbert, Dave Hesmondhalgh, Timothy Taylor, Graham Jeffrey, Douglas Lonie, Ewan Pearson and Cecelia Wee.
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 Pearson, DJ/producer
Cecilia Wee, Arts Council
Chair: Jeremy Gilbert
With thanks to the School of Arts & Digital Industries and the Higher Education Innovation Fund.
All welcome. No registration required.