[ecrea] CFP: Writing the noise: the politics and history of subcultural music

Call for papers:

The 2nd International Conference of the Interdisciplinary Network for 
the Study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change

Writing the noise: the politics and history of subcultural music

University of Reading

6–7 September 2018

Confirmed keynote speakers and events:

Simon Reynolds, author of Shock and Awe, Retromania, Energy Flash and 
Rip It Up and Start Again

Professor Lucy Robinson, University of Sussex, ‘Less History of Zines, 
More Zines as History’

Plenary panel of music journalists: from the mainstream to the pop press 
to fanzines, featuring Simon Reynolds, David Stubbs and Cathi Unsworth

The Call:

How should we write the history of subcultures and their music? How do 
we write about current subcultures and musics? What theories or 
perspectives should we adopt? What sources can we use and how do we 
apply them? Who is able to write them? Did – and do – you have to have 
been there? This international conference will analyse the problems and 
possibilities of writing on subcultures and their music. It will bring 
together academics, journalists and practitioners; it will be 
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. It will be designed to 
facilitate conversations between historians, sociologists and 
musicologists, between cultural studies and political science, between 
performers and commentators, between journalists, writers and academics.

Individual paper proposals should include an abstract of 300 words max, 
together with a brief biography and contact details

Suggested themes and areas:

Histories of music
Theories of subcultures
Comparing subcultures
Infrastructures and institutions
Music journalism and the music press
The politics of music, the politics of subcultures
Fanzines
Archives and oral history
Geographies of popular music, localities and space


Panel proposals should include a general abstract and brief account of 
papers to be included (600 words in total), together with brief 
biographies and contact details.

Deadline: 15 November 2017


Send to conference organisers: Matthew Worley ((m.worley /at/ reading.co.uk)) 
and John Street ((j.street /at/ uea.ac.uk))

Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of February 2018

Details

The conference fee will by £100, comprising lunch, refreshments and 
admin. Plans to give concessions to unwaged/students/PhDs are on-going. 
Accommodation can be booked for £61 per night. Registration information 
will be disseminated once the conference programme has been put in place.

The conference is organised by Matthew Worley and John Street, on behalf 
of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Subcultures, Popular 
Music and Social Change
(http://www.reading.ac.uk/history/research/Subcultures/
The network is responsible for the Palgrave book series on subcultures 
(https://www.palgrave.com/in/series/14579)



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