[ecrea] Home of Metal Symposium and Workshop: Music Heritage, People and Place

*/Home of Metal Symposium and Workshop/*

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*/Music Heritage, People and Place /*

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*13-14th September 2019*

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*Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research*

*Birmingham City University*

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*1. Call for Papers*

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*PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM*

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*Friday 13th September 2019*

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/This public symposium seeks to bring together researchers, policy 
makers, heritage and creative workers and musicians./

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/We welcome contributions from fans and heritage consumers in response 
to their experience of the /Home of Metal/exhibitions and events./

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/Home of Metal/(HoM) is a heritage project created and led by the 
Capsule organisation. Launched in 2011, supported by volunteers, 
building a crowd-sourced archive and curating a range of popular public 
events in Birmingham and the Black Country, HoM seeks to highlight and 
celebrate the value of Heavy Metal music and culture and the role in it 
of founding artists from the English midlands such as Black Sabbath, Led 
Zeppelin, and Judas Priest. In 2017 the project went international in 
its reach, exploring metal culture around the world with a particular 
focus on Black Sabbath. As a result, in 2019 a range of exhibitions and 
events will take place in ‘celebration of an artform created in 
Birmingham that maintains significant global reach and influence.’ The 
value of this approach is indicated by the Wall Street Journal that has 
described the genre as the real ‘World Music’, that ‘Heavy Metal has 
become the unlikely soundtrack of globalisation’ (2016).

Open to all, this public symposium and workshop, seeks to situate HoM in 
relation to wider heritage issues and opportunities in order to 
understand its value and impact at home and abroad. For instance, 
UNESCO’s designation of ‘Creative Cities’ fosters innovation and 
cultural creativity, recognizing popular music amongst its specialized 
categories. Sites identified as a ‘City of Music’ include Glasgow and 
Liverpool in the UK, Kingston, Jamaica and lately Kansas City, USA. How 
does the ‘Home of Metal’ fit alongside such company?

The ‘Creative Cities’ designation indicates the importance of music to 
the identity of particular places, the activity focused on popular music 
genres like Heavy Metal generated by fans and community activists, as 
well as produced in archives, museums and galleries by professional 
cultural workers. Nonetheless it is important to remember that such 
activity draws on the products of the commercial music industries and 
connects with their heritage role. From this angle then, music heritage 
also includes (amongst other things): reissued recordings; artist tours; 
film biographies; television documentaries; radio retrospectives; and 
popular publications, as well as aspects of tourism and leisure industries.

What is the meaning of this range of heritage activity and what role 
does a project like /Home of Metal/ play in it? How does music heritage 
matter and what debates are promoted between fans and heritage 
consumers, policy makers, heritage and creative workers, musicians and 
researchers?//

In order to explore these issues, we invite /presentations, papers, 
creative responses and contributions, demonstrations and proposals for 
activities and commentary/ addressing, _but not limited to_, the 
following questions:

/What issues are presented by the preservation of metal music and 
culture for fans and museum curators?/

/What role does music heritage and memory play in place-making?/

/What role do issues of identity (e.g. gender, race, sexuality) play in 
music heritage?/

/What is the economic and cultural value of music heritage?/

/What are the good, bad and ugly stories of music heritage?/

/What is the relationship of music heritage, creativity and new music 
scenes?/

/How is music heritage consumed?/

/What does cultural policy have to say about music heritage?/

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Proposals of no more than 300 words should be forwarded to 
(paul.long /at/ bcu.ac.uk) <mailto:(paul.long /at/ bcu.ac.uk)>by 31 January 2019 
accompanied by a short biography and contact details. Selection and 
scheduling will be organised in conjunction with the organisers of Home 
of Metal. Invitations to participate will be sent by the end of February.


*2. Call for Participants*

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*WORKSHOP *

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*Saturday 14th September 2019*

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We invite anyone interested in attending the /Home of Metal/ exhibitions 
and events in June-September 2019 to participate in a workshop on the 
theme of home, metal and heritage. We will develop skills of evaluation, 
debate and presentation concerned with popular music heritage.

The workshop is _free_ to attend with refreshments available.

_Free_entry to the /Home of Metal/ exhibition is provided as part of the 
workshop.

The condition of participation is based on contribution to a workshop on 
the value and engagement of music heritage and the production of a 
number of group outputs (‘fanzine’, interviews, podcast).

Participants will be asked to: reflect on their own impressions of the 
Home of Metal exhibition (in writing, illustrations, to camera or 
microphone as preferred); to engage with other participants at the 
exhibition regarding wider reactions to /Home of Metal/; to participate 
in a group workshop and discussion on the impact of /Home of Metal/ and 
music heritage.

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/Draft Itinerary (TBC)/

10.00        Welcome and coffee.

10.30        Briefing and Brainstorm: Where is the /Home of Metal/? What 
is Popular Music Heritage?

11.30        Researching the ‘/Home of Metal/ Exhibition’.

2.00          Lunch and Interactive Research Session.

4.30          Drinks.

5.00          Podcast recording.

*3. Report on /Home of Metal/ and Music Heritage in Birmingham*

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As a result of the symposium and workshop our intention is to produce a 
report on /Home of Metal and Music Heritage in Birmingham /aimed at 
policy makers, music industries and conumers/. /Contributions from 
participants are welcome as well as commentary from those attending 
events who may not be able to attend the symposium and workshop or from 
those unable to visit but who may have experience as creators, consumers 
and researchers of other music heritage enterprises around the world.

For more information please email: (paul.long /at/ bcu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(paul.long /at/ bcu.ac.uk)>or (asya.draganova /at/ bcu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(asya.draganova /at/ bcu.ac.uk)>

PDF of this call 
here:https://www.academia.edu/37601835/Home_of_Metal_Symposium_and_Workshop_Music_Heritage_People_and_Place

*If colleagues are unable to attend the symposium but intend to visit 
HoM events in 2019 we would be pleased to welcome you to BCMCR while in 
Birmingham so please do get in touch.*


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