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

Tue Jul 30 19:09:22 GMT 2019





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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