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Jazz and the Media II

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Harmonic

Friday 30th September (1pm – 4pm)
Birmingham MAC, Foyle studio

After last year’s inaugural Jazz and the Media conference, Birmingham City University have teamed up with Harmonic to deliver the second instalment. This year’s focus will be social media and how it can be best used to promote jazz and develop new audiences, as well as how jazz collectives are using these tools. Hosted by Tim Wall with guest speakers including Sebastian Scotney (London Jazz), Andrew Dubber and the festival directors themselves.

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Collecting and Curating Popular Music Histories Symposium

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Interactive Cultures researcher Rob Horrocks is speaking at a round table discussion on the benefits and issues with the digital turn in popular music and museums at this event at the British Library next week.
Rob worked on the 40 Years of Heavy Metal and its Unique Birth Place exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery as part of his reseach on popluar music heritage practice. The exhibition opened on 18th June.

Animation Explosion 2011 – CFP

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Event: Weds, 14th September 2011

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20th May 2011

Animation Explosion seeks to examine the all pervasive nature of animation across multi-media platforms. The aim of this one day event is both multidisciplinary, but also multi-modal in its output, aiming to examine both a range of approaches to the analysis of animation, but also to identify the breadth in application through animation practice. The event seeks to provide a welcoming space for the dialogue between animation practitioners and academics alike. To this end, we are seeking both academic papers, but also practical demonstrations. In addition this event will also foster the space for roundtable discussion with divergent animation groups, educators working within the realm of animation and industry practitioners to examine the future of funding and the sustainability of animation work across an international context.

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Creative Enterprise Conference, 18th May

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A one day conference exploring a range of approaches to enterprise education for creative, media, art and design students on Wednesday 18th May in Birmingham. Topics to be discussed include: the graduate experience of enterprise projects; incubating creative entrepreneurs, developing entrepreneurial behaviours in students; how competitions can help foster enterprise and emerging research in entrepreneurial journeys.

This conference is born out of the ECCE Innovation (ECCEi) project, which supports interventions in cities to promote the creative and media industries, and aims to inform EU policy. ECCEi fosters collaborative working between EU partners including: Aachen, Birmingham City University, Cardiff, CIDA in Huddersfield, Dublin, Eindhoven, Nantes, Stuttgart.

Presentations and workshops will stimulate a debate leading to further discussions and collaborations. Confirmed speakers include Dr Colette Henry, Dr Daniel Ashton, Fabrice Hyber, Charlotte Carey and Sian Prime.

More information and booking here

 

SITES OF POPULAR MUSIC HERITAGE – SYMPOSIUM
 CFP

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Venue: Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool

Date: 8–9 September 2011
We invite proposals from a broad range of academic disciplines for a 2 day symposium examining sites of popular music heritage: from institutions such as museums, to geographic locations, websites and online archives. Papers are welcomed that explore popular music within narratives of heritage and identity, real and imagined geographies, cultural memory and contested histories.

 

The event will focus on three thematic areas:

Popular Music Heritage in the Museum

In recent years museums have increasingly engaged with popular music heritage, as evidenced in a proliferation of exhibitions including those in the UK such as Kylie: The Exhibition at the V&A and the British Music Experience at the O2. Museum interaction with popular music heritage enables methods of narration beyond traditional written histories, engaging visitors with objects, sounds and images. The place of popular music in the museum raises issues of how music is both represented and used to represent and explore social histories, personal and collective identities, memories, and geographies. Possible themes for papers include:

  • Popular music and locality in the museum
  • Disseminating popular music heritage in museums beyond text
  • History and memory in popular music exhibitions and collections

 

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Film Screening of ‘The Irishmen’ by Phillip Donnellan

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The Irishmen is a beautiful and an important film as it is one of the few accounts we have of the experiences of the millions of men and women who came from Ireland to Britain after the war to aid in rebuilding the country. However, when it was made, the film was rejected by the BBC and to this day has not been screened on British TV. Donnellan himself thought this rejection was for political reasons. You will be able to judge for yourself at this screening and discussion.

Time: 2pm
Date: Thursday 25 November 2010
Location: The Pump, Kitts Green Road, Lea Village, B33 9SB
Further info: info@reelaccess.org.uk / 0121 6758391
www.phillipdonnellan.posterous.com

Nostalgia, Symbolic Knowledge and Generational Conflict: Contentious Issues in Contemporary Northern and Rare Soul Scenes

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The first of a series of papers from the recent Northern Soul symposium at The University of Salford.

Dr Lucy Gibson at the Rare Records and Raucous Nights: Investigating Northern Soul symposium
4 November, University of Salford

Lucy Gibson is a temporary lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. Her doctoral research explored popular music and the life course, which included ethnographies of Northern Soul and rare soul, rock music, and electronic dance music scenes and interviews with over 70 adult fans. She is particularly interested in how ageing shapes participation in music scenes and music taste and is currently working on publications in this area.

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Call for Papers – Birmingham Cityscapes

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An Inter-disciplinary Urban Research Conference
Saturday 18 June 2011
Seacole Building, City South Campus

Keynote Speakers:
Dr Mike Beazley, Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies, University of Birmingham
Paul Slatter, Director of Chamberlain Forum Limited, Birmingham

Engaging with current issues facing urban research in Birmingham, the Birmingham Cityscapes conference will provide a forum for academics, scholars, practitioners, community leaders and local residents to discuss urban research in the city. The conference will facilitate the development of new research networks and provide an opportunity for theoretical and applied knowledge transfer across the public, private, voluntary, and academic sectors.

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Rare Records and Raucous Nights: Investigating Northern Soul

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Professor Tim Wall is speaking at this Symposium hosted by The University of Salford next month.

Rare Records and Raucous Nights: Investigating Northern Soul
Robert Powell Theatre, 4 November, 2010; 1-5 P.M.

A spirited examination of dance culture, record collecting, and the perpetual British love for American Rhythm & Blues

Programme

1:00 Tim Wall, Birmingham City University

“Northern Soul: There’s Nothing Northern About It (And While We’re At It, It Isn’t Soul and the Dancers Aren’t Break Dancers”)

1:30 Nicola Smith, University of Wales Institute Cardiff

“Dancing Alone, Together: Pleasure, Competency and Competition On The Northern Soul Dancefloor”

2:00 Screening “The Wigan Casino” (Tony Palmer, 1977)
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Music, Heritage and Cities at Un-Convention

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Members of the Interactive Cultures research group attended/took part in a panel at the recent Un-Convention event in Salford writes Paul Long.

Jez Collins, the originator of the Birmingham Popular Music Archive chaired a panel consisting of: Dr Marion Leonard, who was the curator of Liverpool’s The Beat Goes On, and who oversees on ongoing project to examine how museums collect and preserve (or not) popular music; Alison Surtees of the Manchester District Music Archive; Eve Wood, the director of the documentary Made in Sheffield (2001) and Mike Darby of Bristol Archive Records.

Speakers offered insights into each of their projects, revealing the variety of practices in this field, the public appetite for music heritage and the innovations and connections that curation has been making. Surtees for instance outlined how the online MDMA had generated input from around 2000 individuals, half of which regularly posted material on the site. Some of these were members of the bands featured and indeed, these explorations of music past also connected with the present scene in ways that avoided the potential necrophilia of such work.

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