Category Archives: Cultural studies

Call for Papers – UB40 Symposium.

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Venue: Birmingham City University, UK.

Friday 18th March 2011.

Organizers: Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research in association with Birmingham Popular Music Archive.

This year, the Birmingham-based band UB40 celebrates the 30th anniversary of the release of the album ‘Signing Off’.
The band gained its name from an unemployment benefit form and achieved fame and notoriety in the ‘post-punk’ era. Known for a dedication to popularizing the sounds of reggae music the band has maintained a commitment to political issues through its music as well as cultural and social action.

Over 30 years the band has sold over 100 million albums and continues to tour extensively around the world. While the band’s star has waxed and waned in critical favour at home in the UK, it maintains a global fan base, which is particularly strong in the Third World.

This symposium seeks to bring together researchers with an interest in the band in order to consider its place in various scholarly contexts.
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Tony Palmer’s All You Need is Love

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Tony Palmer’s – All You Need is Love from Interactive Cultures on Vimeo.

Prof Tim Wall and Dr Paul Long presenting to the Sights and Sounds conference, University of Salford, June 2010. All You Need is Love is a 17 part documentary covering the Story of Popular Music. The program was originally broadcast between 1976 and 1981, but since that time it has neither been commercially released or repeated.

Invitation: Home, Identity and Citizenship – The Films of Philip Donnellan.

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You are invited to attend a screening of ‘Philip Donnellan’s The Colony’ (1964) followed by a discussion of an ongoing project to explore and promote the resources of the Philip Donnellan Archive.

6-8pm

Wednesday 30th June 2010

Birmingham Library Theatre

The Colony, originally made as an innovative TV documentary, explores the experience of members of the Caribbean migrant community in Birmingham and the Midlands. The film allows its subjects space to candidly evaluate their reception in the UK and their relationships with home and other migrant workers. Controversial at the time of its original broadcast the film is an enduring and powerful document of a key moment in post-war British history.
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Interrogating the Music Documentary pt 1: De-Canonizing Punk

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Members of the Interactive Cultures team presented three papers at a conference called Sights and Sounds – Interrogating the Music Documentary, 3rd-4th June 2010 at Adelphi Research Institute for Creative Arts and Sciences, University of Salford.

We will be uploading videos of all three presentations to this blog in the next few days.

In this post is Matt Grimes’ paper:  Punk’s Underbelly: De-Canonizing Histories of Punk which he has written about and posted in full on his own blog.

Punk’s Underbelly: De-Canonizing Histories of Punk from Interactive Cultures on Vimeo.