[AMS-announce] CONF: Analysing Popular Music in Context, SMA Study day, Univ. of Liverpool, 16 Nov 2007

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The Society for Music Analysis are pleased to announce the programme for their Autumn Study Day, sponsored by the University of Liverpool.

Analysing Popular Music in Context

Friday 16 November 2007
School of Music
University of Liverpool

Programme

10.30   Registration

11.00	Keynote address: Professor Allan Moore (University of Surrey)

12:00 	Session 1 (Place and identity)
	Stephen Rees (University of Wales, Bangor, UK): ?Welsh or Breton? Local and regional identities in the music of fernhill?
	
	Dr. Nishlyn Ramanna (University of KwaZulu-Natal, SA): ?Mediations of self and place in contemporary South African jazz?

2:00	Session 2 (Sound and identity)
	Professor Stan Hawkins (University of Oslo, Norway): ?Unsettling difference: music and identity in Britpop?
	
	Eirik Askeroi (University of Oslo, Norway): ?Reading pop production: sonic markers and identity formation?

3:15	Session 3 (Video/multimedia)
	Dr. Elizabeth Eva Leach (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK): ?Identity and analogy: nostalgia for a golden age?
	
	Jada Watson (University of Ottawa, Canada): ?Dixie Chicks aren?t ready to make nice?

4:30	Session 4  (The Beatles)
	Ben Curry (University of Cardiff, UK): ?Music as object: experience and hegemony?

	Christine Boone (University of Texas, USA): ?From Revolutionaries to When They're 64: a study of the Beatles' musical and cultural identity?

5:30	Round table

Cost: The study day is free to current, paid-up members of the Society for Music Analysis, and staff and students of the University of Liverpool. For all others who wish to attend the cost will be: 

£10 for students 
£20 for non-students 

This includes SMA membership until the end of 2008. Membership forms will be available on the day.

Buffet lunch is included for all delegates who confirm their attendance in advance (please mention any dietary requirements when booking).

Contact: to confirm your attendance or request further information please email Janet Storey:
jastorey at liverpool.ac.uk 

Getting there: please visit http://www.liv.ac.uk/about/visiting/index.htm for more information. A limited number of bursaries of up to ?40 are available to assist with travel expenses; please contact Ed Venn (e.venn at lancaster.ac.uk) for more details.

Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Information Officer (acting), Society for Music Analysis
http://www.sma.ac.uk