{"id":698,"date":"2011-04-05T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T11:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/?page_id=698"},"modified":"2014-01-30T17:17:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T17:17:54","slug":"music-politics-and-agency-speakers-and-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/?page_id=698","title":{"rendered":"Music, Politics, Agency\/Critical Beats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This conference is programmed by Jeremy Gilbert (Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London), David Hesmondhalgh (Media Industries Research Centre, Institute of Communications Studies) and Jason Toynbee (Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, Open University).<\/div>\n
The conference is free to attend, but pre-registration is recommended.<\/div>\n
To register email\u00a0j.gilbert@uel.ac.uk<\/a> with the subject \u201cMusic, Politics and Agency Registration\u201d<\/div>\n
For any further information, email\u00a0j.gilbert@uel.ac.uk<\/a><\/div>\n
UEL Docklands Campus is best reached via Cyprus DLR (Docklands Light Railway) station, which is literally located at the campus.<\/div>\n
For information about the campus, see\u00a0http:\/\/www.uel.ac.uk\/campuses\/docklands.htm<\/a><\/div>\n
Room EB.2.43 is on the second floor of the main building (\u2018East Building\u2019) which is to the left of the main square upon entering from the square from Cyprus DLR .<\/div>\n
See\u00a0http:\/\/journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk\/user\/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?language=en<\/a> to plan your journey.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Speakers and Papers<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Anne Danielsen<\/strong><\/div>\n
Power, mediation, and aesthetics in the music of Public Enemy<\/strong><\/div>\n
Anne Danielsen is Professor and Head of Research in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. Her publications include\u00a0Pleasure and Presence: the Funk Grooves of James Brown and Parliament\u00a0(2006) and\u00a0Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction\u00a0(2010).<\/div>\n
Barry Shank<\/strong><\/div>\n
The political agency of music<\/strong><\/div>\n
Barry Shank teaches popular music, American studies and cultural theory in the department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University.\u00a0 He is the author ofDissonant Identities: The Rock’n’Roll Scene in Austin, Texas\u00a0and\u00a0A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture.\u00a0 He is currently completing a book for Duke University Press entitled\u00a0Silence, Noise, Beauty: The Political Agency of Music.<\/div>\n
David Hesmondhalgh<\/strong><\/div>\n
Music and human flourishing<\/strong><\/div>\n

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David Hesmondhalgh teaches and researches at the University of Leeds. His books include\u00a0Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries\u00a0(2011), co-written with Sarah Baker, and\u00a0Western Music and its Others: Difference, Appropriation and Representation in Music\u00a0(with Georgina Born, 2000).<\/div>\n
Helen Reddington<\/strong><\/div>\n
The sound of women musicians in the punk era<\/strong><\/div>\n
Helen Reddington lectures in songwriting and production on the University of\u00a0East London’s Music Cultures BA. Her research interests include the punk\u00a0subculture and women’s engagement with music technology. Her book\u00a0The Lost Women of Rock Musicwill appear revised in paperback in January 2012 and a double CD of archive material by her punk-pop band is due to be released by the label Damaged Goods later this year.<\/div>\n
Jeremy Gilbert<\/strong><\/div>\n
Music after capitalism? Culture, creativity and markets<\/strong><\/div>\n
Jeremy Gilbert is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of East London. His publications include (with Ewan Pearson)\u00a0Discographies: Dance Music Culture and the Politics of Sound\u00a0(Routledge 1999) and\u00a0Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics\u00a0(Berg 2008). He is co-director of the Centre for Cultural Studies Research, editor of\u00a0new formations\u00a0and a founder member of Lucky Cloud Sound System.<\/div>\n
John Street<\/strong><\/div>\n
Music as political thought and action: the arguments and the evidence<\/strong><\/div>\n
John Street is a professor of politics at the University of East Anglia. His latest book is\u00a0Music and Politics, which is due to be published by Polity later this year. He is a member of the editorial group of the journal\u00a0Popular Music.<\/div>\n
Martin Stokes<\/strong><\/div>\n
Scale, agency and music in religious movements<\/strong><\/div>\n
Martin Stokes is University Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Tutorial Fellow at St. John’s College, University of Oxford. Martin is an ethnomusicologist with a particular interest in social and cultural theory. His most recent book\u00a0The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press (2010).<\/div>\n
Tim Lawrence<\/strong><\/div>\n
Rhizomatic musicianship: Arthur Russell and after<\/strong><\/div>\n
Tim Lawrence is a Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of East London and the programme leader of the Music Culture: Theory and Production degree. He is the author of\u00a0Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-79(Duke University Press, 2003) and\u00a0Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-92\u00a0(Duke University Press, 2009). He is a founding member of the Centre for Cultural Studies Research and Lucky Cloud Sound System.<\/div>\n
Tuulikki Pietil\u00e4<\/strong><\/div>\n
Body politic: youth musics in the \u201cNew South Africa\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n
Tuulikki Pietil\u00e4 is a social anthropologist and a research fellow in the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She has published a monograph and a number of articles on trade and gender in Kilimanjaro and the post-colonial Africa more broadly. Currently she is studying South African music and music industry.<\/div>\n
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Schedule:<\/div>\n
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11:15-11:30 Introduction<\/p>\n

11:30-13:00 panel: Shank, Reddington, Hesmondhalgh; Chair: Gilbert<\/p>\n

13:00-14:00 lunch<\/p>\n

14:00-15:30 panel: Danielsen, Stokes, Lawrence; Chair: Hesmondhalgh<\/p>\n

15:30-16:00 break<\/p>\n

16:00-17:30 panel: Pietila, Gilbert, Street; Chair: Toynbee<\/p>\n

17:30-17:45 wind-up<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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