CURRENT EVENTS
Creative Communities 3 Conference: Risks and Possibilities (Wed 26th - Fri 28th Sept)
CALL FOR PAPERS (more info>>> Conference Website)
Registration available here.
Youth Cultures, belongings, transitions: Bridging the gap in youth research (Thu 22nd - Fri 23rd Nov)
Griffith Centre for Cultural Research and The Australian Sociological Association Sociology of Youth Thematic Group are proud to co-host Youth Cultures, belongings, transitions: Bridging the gap in youth research.
This three-day conference will seek to map the connections between youth cultural practice and youth transitions. The Convenors welcome individual paper and panel proposals that seek to combine or rework the theories and perspectives of cultural and transitions youth research.
For Registration and Call for Papers please click here.
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'CULTURES OF POPULAR MUSIC' Seminar Program 2012
The Cultures of Popular Music seminar program is a series of fortnightly seminars supported by Griffith University's Centre for Cultural Research. Bringing together local, national, and international speakers, Cultures of Popular Music strives to provide a forum for emerging and established music scholars to present their work to the public. For seminar program please download here (PDF 1.9KB).
MacIntyre, Bourdieu and The Practice of Jazz (Mon 28th May - 6.30pm)
A paper presented by Dr Mark Banks (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
This presentation offers a sociological account of the labour of musicians. The first part is concerned with elaborating a theory of work based on Alasdair MacIntyreʼs notion of social practices. While MacIntyreʼs theory is argued to offer a congenial framework for an analysis of jazz, it is then compared and contrasted with more established readings of jazz practice - based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu - which suggest more objective and instrumental motivations for working in jazz. For more info>>> (PDF 1.8MB)
Beauty, Brains, and the Beat: Rediscovering the All-Girl Rock Bands of the 1960s (Mon 14th May - 6.30pm)
A paper presented by Dr Christine Feldman (Griffith University, Queensland)
While much has been written about the cultural influence of the vocalist-driven girl groups and female singers of the early-to-mid 1960s, an air of mystery continues to shroud the all-girl rock bands of the era. In the UK, the US, and, indeed, around the world, such groups performed, recorded, and often wrote their own material during these years. For more info>>> (PDF 2.3MB)
Popular Musicʼs Contribution to Renewing Cultural Heritage: The Case of Easter Island (Mon 20th Apr - 6.30pm)
A paper presented by Dr Dan Bendrups (Griffith University, Queensland)
Easter Island, the worldʼs most isolated inhabited island, is home to a contemporary society in which indigenous, pan-Polynesian and colonial Latin American cultural influences are mixed, together with a constant stream of global tourism. The islandʼs indigenous population, numbering only around 2,000 people, must content with balancing these influences against the need to preserve their unique cultural heritage, in which music plays a vital role. For more info>>> (PDF 2MB)
'If I'm Not Here': Street Music, Technology and the Urban Soundscape (Mon 16th Apr - 6.30pm)
Prof Andy Bennett & Ian Rogers (GCCR, Griffith University, Queensland)
In this paper, we will examine the role that recent advances in music technology have played in the work of contemporary street musicians. Despite their global omnipresence, street musicians have seldom been the focus of contemporary scholarly research on music making and performance. For more info>>> (PDF 1.8MB)
The Pop-Rock Intelligentsia (Mon 26th Mar - 6.30pm)
Prof Motti Regev (School of Sociology at The Open University, Israel)
This paper is about the intelligentsia of pop-rock, its literati and cognoscenti. Unlike other cultures of popular music, typically organized around genres and styles, the practitioners of this culture are organized around a perception of pop-rock music in artistic and intellectual terms. More than with being preoccupied with a singular musical aesthetic theory, of pop-rock music. For more info>>> (PDF 1.4MB)
Austropp and the Production of an Austrian "Rock Heritage" (Mon 19th Mar - 6.30pm)
A/Prof Rosa Reitsamer (Department of Music Sociology, University of Music & Performing Arts Vienna)
Rosa Reitsamer is a sociologist, journalist and DJ. Currently she the Assistant Professor at the Department of Music Sociology, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria. She is co-founder of the digital archive www.digmeout.org Discourses on Popular Music, Gender and Ethnicity (together with Maria José Belbel) and co-editor of the anthologies Female Consequences. Feminism, Antirassismus, Popmusik (2006, together with Rupert Weinzierl) and New Feminism: Worlds of Feminism, Queer and Networking Conditions (2008, together with Marina Grzinic); her monograph When Will I Be Famous? The Do-It-Yourself Careers of DJs will be published in 2012. For more info>>> (PDF 1.9MB)
Oops, I did it Again: Theorizing Contingency in Popular Music (Mon 12th Mar - 6.30pm)
A paper presented by Dr Nick Prior (Senior Lecturer in Sociology @ University of Edinburgh, UK)
In this paper I'll be interested in a cluster of phenomena variously termed error, accident, contingency and failure in music. I'm drawn to these phenomena partly because they are often ignored as music and as production, but also because they reveal more about music as a complex form of practice than conventional narratives emphasizing successful and purposeful action. For more info>>>(PDF 2.1MB)
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'Victorian Vocabularies' AVSA Conference 2012 (Thurs 12th - Sat 14th Apr)
About Australian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA)
The Australasian Victorian Studies Association aims to promote the activities and research of scholars in Victorian literary, historical, and cultural studies, including art history, architecture, politics, popular and print culture, and, increasingly, considerations of 'the Victorian' beyond the chronological period, and beyond the geographical centre of British Victorian Studies.
Since its first conference in 1973, AVSA has provided a meeting place for scholars in Victorian Studies in the southern hemisphere. AVSA's membership is international, with a particular focus on Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. We also have strong links with Associations in Britain and the United States.
Registration details are available from the AVSA 2012 conference webpage. Conference Flyer can be downloaded here (PDF 226KB).
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Using mixed methods in cultural research (Fri 9th Mar - 10am)
- a round table session on the topic of using mixed methods in cultural research
A half-day workshop led by Professor Motti Regev (GCCR Visiting Academic)
This will be a useful session for all HDRs who have an empirical component in their dissertations.
Often, our choices for using particular methodologies seem to require us to commit to a narrow range of data collection approaches, or to refuse eclectic approaches as they seem tainted as unscientific. In this workshop Prof Regev will discuss his own approach to methodologies in cultural research with particular focus on eclectic and mixed method choices. Participants will then be asked to share and reflect on their own research topics and group discussion will be focused on how to do, and report, cultural research. More info>>> (PDF 1.8MB)
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