[AMS-announce] CONF: Toward a Philosophy of the Vernacular? Reading Richard Middleton's _Voicing the Popular_, Newcastle, Nov. 25 2006

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Toward a Philosophy of the Vernacular?
Reading Richard Middleton's Voicing the Popular

A one-day symposium
November 25th, CETL Seminar Room, Armstrong Building

Keynote speaker: Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana)


10.00-11.00 Keynote presentation

Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana): Vox populi

11.00-11.30 tea and coffee

11.30-13.00 First session:

Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York):  
Popular Credibility: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Freya Jarman-Ivens (University of Liverpool): Enjoying the low Other, 
or, Confessions of a popular musicologist

Will Edmondes (University of Newcastle): Coming Straight From The 
Street: Keeping It Surreal

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00 Second session

Richard Elliott (University of Newcastle): Hail, Hail Rock 'n' Roll: 
Interpellation, Identification and Ideological Transference in Popular 
Music

Mark Fisher (UK): The Object Speaks: Grace Jones

Ian Biddle (University of Newcastle): Before the people, voice.

15.30-16.00 tea and coffee

16.00 Round Table: Toward a philosophy of the vernacular?

Mladen Dolar, Richard Middleton (University of Newcastle) and all other 
speakers
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Dr Ian Biddle
Head of the International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS)
Director, CETL (Centre for Excellence in
Teaching and Learning) Inclusivity in Music
School of Arts and Cultures
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
tel: +191 222 8844
fax: +191 222 5242
Email: i.d.biddle at ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/music
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/POP
http://www.vamosfestival.com
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/popularmusics/