[ecrea] POPULAR MUSIC AND AUTOMOBILE CULTURE: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM

POPULAR MUSIC AND AUTOMOBILE CULTURE: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM

Next Friday (22nd June, 2012)
Binks Building, University of Chester, England

9.30am-4.30pm, Room CBK 013/1

This is a free symposium. No registration is required and everyone is welcome. Please email Dr Chris Hart ((c.hart /at/ chester.ac.uk)  ) if you wish to attend.

The following speakers are giving papers in two parallel streams...

Philip Tagg: Shaving, Biking and Guitar Distortion: The Rock Daredevil Trope and Rock Consumerism

Justin A. Williams: Toward a Sloanist Theory of Popular Music Production

Tim Wall and Nick Webber: Rock 'n' Roll: Cars, Convergence and Culture

Claire Evans:'It’s the Equivalent of Going Backstage at a Music Show’: Popular Music, Celebrity and Formula One

Georgina Gregory: 'She’s My Little Deuce Coupe': Freudian Transformation in the Car Songs of The Beach Boys.

Roddy Hawkins: Travelling at the Speed of Sound? Top Gear Compilations as (British) Musical Expressions of Driving

Barbara Hornberger: 'Ich will Spaß, ich geb Gas': A German Pop Song Between Fun, Society and Subversion

Phylis Johnson: Moving Sounds:  Hearing 'Route 66' on the Car Radio Then and Now

Craig Owen Jones: Driving On The A470: Cars and Roads in Welsh-language Rock and Hip-Hop Music

David Kane: The Motorcycle as a Rock Icon

Chris Lezotte: 'Born to Take the Highway': The Automobile, Women and Rock-n-Roll

Santiago Niño Morales: 'Las Chivas': Fiesta in Motion

Alice Price-Styles: 'Born To Roll’: An Examination of Jeep Culture in The Music of Masta Ace

Jon Stewart: ‘Motorpsycho Nightmare’: Bob Dylan and Car Culture

Charles E. Sykes: The Auto Assembly Line: Metaphor and Model for Motown

Tim Summers: Music in Racing Video Games


About the organisers:

Dr Chris Hart is Senior Lecturer in Advertising at Chester. He recently co-managed the largest study done to date into the economics and social impact of historic vehicles in Europe.

Dr Mark Duffett is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Chester. He is known as a popular music scholar whose central interests include fandom and Elvis Presley.

Dr Beate Peter is a member of the Institute for Performance Research at Manchester Metropolitan University with research interests in music psychology and popular culture. Her comparative study of techno in Detroit and Berlin is to be published in Spring 2012.



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