Studying Popular Music, led by staff from the University of Liverpool
Monday 15 January (Liverpool) & Wednesday 17 January (IMR, Room ST274/5) 9.15am - 4.30pm
The days will be organized in two halves. In the morning, there will be four half-hour talks, followed by discussion, on particular methods. These will be:
Textual Analysis—presented by Freya Jarman-Ivens, co-editor of Madonna's Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to Her Subcultural Transformations, 1983-2003 and of Oh, Boy!: Popular Music and Masculinities (forthcoming)
History and Historiography—presented by Rob Strachan, editor of Popular Music History
Ethnography—presented by Sara Cohen, Director of the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool, and author of Rock Culture in Liverpool: Popular Music in the Making
Discourse and intertextuality—presented by Anahid Kassabian, with a focus on how to work with music videos and image-music relations, but also with popular press materials
After a break for lunch, we shall open a discussion of abstracts of participants’ thesis projects, which we will have collected and distributed in advance. The discussion will be open to questions about obstacles, about the chosen methods, and about anything the participants want to discuss. This workshop format offers an opportunity for students to hear about other projects and other problems, as well as to get input from us and from their peers on their own work.
Advance registration required, with £10 fee and short statement of research interests. Please post to: Mrs Valerie James, Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Cheques should be made payable to 'University of London'
Registration deadline: 2 weeks in advance of each roadshow
