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

Colleagues with an interest in popular music heritage, memory, cultural 
policy and of course heavy metal (and other genres) will be interested in:

*/Music Heritage, People and Place/ *

a public symposium organised in response to the Home of Metal season of 
exhibitions and events in Birmingham UK.

The event takes place on _Friday 13th September_ at Birmingham City 
University and is _free_ to attend but do please register here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-home-of-metal-symposium-music-heritage-people-and-place-tickets-63106654703
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/*Home of Metal (HoM) <https://homeofmetal.com/>*/ 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. Open to all, this public symposium brings together researchers, 
policy makers, heritage and creative workers and musicians. Its experts 
situate HoM in relation to wider issues and opportunities focussed on 
popular music in order to understand its value and impact at home and 
abroad.

The day will open with a keynote presentation on Rockheim, Norway’s 
National Museum of Popular Music <https://rockheim.no/en> and close with 
a panel discussion of plans for a dedicated heavy metal collection and 
museum in Birmingham. Throughout the day, presentations will cover 
aspects of heavy metal heritage as well as other genres and projects 
dedicated to exploring, preserving and exhibiting popular music history 
and the making of place.

Midlands Metalheads Radio <https://midlandsmetalheads.com/> will be on 
site to capture and share discussion, ideas and to provide the day’s 
soundtrack. Attendees will be invited to contribute to a special edition 
of the journal RIFFS: http://riffsjournal.org/

The symposium is funded by the Faculty of Art, Design and Media, 
Birmingham City University. It is organized by the Birmingham Centre for 
Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR), in partnership with Home of Metal. 
It takes place in the City Centre Campus of Birmingham City University.

An exhibition specially curated by Home of Metal takes place in the BCU 
Parkside Building throughout September.

*Speakers and Papers.*

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: SYNNØVE ENGEVIK (Rockheim) with MARION LEONARD 
(Liverpool): Q: What is a rock museum? A: Rockheim, The National Museum 
of Popular Music.

RUTH ADAMS (KINGS COLLEGE LONDON) ‘We made the genre everybody's onto, 
it's all come from Bow E3’ (Wiley, ‘E3’) Grime Music and Identity in 
East London. EDWARD BANCHS (INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR) The Curious Case of 
Metal in Botswana: Observations of the Nation’s Heavy Metal Culture in 
Western Spaces. AMANDA BARNETT (UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL): ‘I will 
survive’ in the Alternative Archive: An examination of how archival 
collections of heavy metal music in student societies is preserved and 
understood within universities. ZELMARIE CANTILLON (PRESENTER), RAPHAËL 
NOWAK AND SARAH BAKER (GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY): Cultural justice for 
deindustrialising cities: a popular music heritage approach. TOM 
CARDWELL (UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, LONDON): Illuminating Battle Jackets – 
a Fine Art Research Project. CORENTIN CHARBONNIER (ECOLE RÉGIONALE DU 
TRAVAIL SOCIAL [ERTS]) The Hellfest Festival : A Metalhead’s Pilgrimage. 
LISA DER WEDUWE & JAMIE BRETT: Youth Club Archive: Museum Of Youth 
Culture. LYVINIA ELLESCHILD (UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH) Film, Image and 
Music Based Presentation - ‘Without Live Music This Culture Is Dead’: 
Documenting a Community Struggle to Keep Live Music at Maker, Cornwall. 
KIRSTY FIFE (UCL): Document It Yourself: Unauthorised Heritage Praxis in 
UK-based DIY Music Spaces. DAWN HAZLE (INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR): Performing 
the ‘right’ music: Russian metal music as a political barometer. JAN 
HERBST (UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD): Teutonic Heritage: A Producer’s 
View on the Effects of Cultural Origin on Record Production and Artist 
Interaction. KEVIN HOFFIN, NATHAN KERRIGAN & AIDAN O’SULLIVAN (BCU): 
‘You Suffer’. ANTTI-VILLE KÄRJÄ (UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, HELSINKI): 
Maidenfest in the Tango City. PIPPA LANG (KINGSTON UNIVERSITY) HOME OF 
METAL: The Gospel according to Ozzy? FLAVIO PIRES (UNIVERSITY OF PORTO) 
Embracing Heritage: Black Metal and the Visual Legacy of Romanticism 
(Online Presentation). NIGEL SANDERS (ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY) What is 
the relationship of music heritage, creativity and new music scenes? 
NIALL SCOTT (UCLAN) Reporting on the World Metal Congress. KARL 
SPRACKLEN (LEEDS BECKETT UNIVERSITY) The problem with celebrating 
metal’s heritage: A case study of Rios. NOLAN STOLZ (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH 
CAROLINA UPSTATE) More Than Metal: Black Sabbath’s Use of Blues, 
Classical, Jazz, Prog and other Musical Styles.

The day will commence with welcome coffee and tea from 9 (Keynote at 10) 
and the final panel and drinks reception from 530-7.30.

_Register for your ticket and we'll email updates on the day in August. _

Read abstracts for presentations here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jgf6rcrkxzw5ldr/DV%20Presentations%2028%20June%202019.docx?dl=0


*WORKSHOP INVITATION*

We invite symposium attendees or others interested in the Home of 
Metal exhibitions and events in June-September 2019 to participate in a 
workshop on the theme of home, metal and heritage.

The workshop is free to attend and participation is by request.

Entry to the Home of Metal exhibition at Birmingham Museums and Art 
Gallery is provided as part of the workshop.

The condition of participation is based on contribution to workshop 
activities exploring the value and engagement of music heritage and the 
production of a number of group outputs (‘zine, 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.

To request a place in the workshop or for queries about the day and the 
schedule contact: (paul.long /at/ bcu.ac.uk) <mailto:(paul.long /at/ bcu.ac.uk)> and 
(Asya.Draganova /at/ bcu.ac.uk) <mailto:(Asya.Draganova /at/ bcu.ac.uk)>

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