The closing panel Q and A discussion from the Salford Northern Soul symposium.
Investigating Northern Soul panel discussion/Q&A by Interactive Cultures
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Film Screening of ‘The Irishmen’ by Phillip Donnellan
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
Investigating Northern Soul – Questions and Answers
The first of two audio clips of question and answer panel discussions from the recent Rare Records and Raucous Nights symposium at The University of Salford.
Following a screening of Tony Palmer’s 1977 film ‘The Wigan Casino’ the panel comprising
Prof Tim Wall, Dr Nicola Smith, Dr Lucy Gibson, Ady Croasdell (Ace Records) and Prof David Sanjek discussed the film and responded to comments from the audience.
Investigating Northern Soul , Visual Representations of Northern Soul – Panel discussion by Interactive Cultures
The film is on YouTube. Not a great copy but it is there.
Acquiring Rights and Righting Wrongs: The Copyright Clearance of Northern Soul
Ady Croasdell
Rare Records and Raucous Nights: Investigating Northern Soul symposium, University of Salford, 4 November, 2010
Ady Croasdell went to this first “Old Soul” all nighter in 1969 and now bosses the longest running Northern Soul club/all nighter of all time (31 years and counting) at the 100 Club in London’s Oxford Street. He has worked for Ace Records since 1982 compiling Northern Soul LPs and CDs for their Kent subsidiary. He oversees the production of these from concept to product and actively seeks and negotiates deals with the US owners.
Nostalgia, Symbolic Knowledge and Generational Conflict: Contentious Issues in Contemporary Northern and Rare Soul Scenes
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.
The L Word: Fan Pleasure or Fan Pain?
The L Word: Fan Pleasure or Fan Pain? from Interactive Cultures on Vimeo.
Faye Davies – The L Word: Fan Pleasure or Fan Pain?
The L Word was a seminal lesbian drama series. On its conclusion many of the 2 million+ viewers were disappointed by the open ending. Faye’s work on the audience’s reactions through an ethnography of a popular forum raises considerations for media producers in a continually fragmenting market.
A micro history of Black Handsworth in the 1980s
A micro history of Black Handsworth in the 1980s from Interactive Cultures on Vimeo.
Wednesday afternoon research seminar presentation from our guest speaker Kieran Connell – a research student at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary History, University of Birmingham. Kieran is completing a micro history of Black Handsworth in the 1980s.
Kieran’s paper on recent cultural history was well programmed as our regular Book Group discussion that followed his presentation used Exhibiting Popular Music: Museum Audiences, Inclusion and Social History by Marion Leonard (University of Liverpool) and Museums and Popular Culture by Kevin Moore as the starting point for a wider discussion about the cultural heritage work that some members of the centre are involved in.
Rare Records and Raucous Nights: Investigating Northern Soul
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
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.
Call for Papers – Home of Metal
CALL FOR PAPERS
Home of Metal: Heavy Metal and Place
Capsule and the University of Wolverhampton
Location: University of Wolverhampton
Date: 1st – 4th September 2011
Key note speakers:
Prof. Scott Wilson, Kingston University (TBC)
Prof. Deena Weinstein, DePaul University (TBC)
The Heavy Metal movement is littered with accounts of its birth, not
only concerning the origins of the sound, but also the geographical and
political locations from which the music evolved. The now global
phenomenon of Heavy Metal culture has seen much change in the sounds,
styles and fashions over its 40 years of history, but is simultaneously
acutely aware of its origins in Birmingham and The Black Country (UK).
This conference on Metal and place aims to explore and evaluate the
important role that location, heritage and place have in the origins of
Heavy Metal and music in general. It will serve to engage in debate
concerning values, histories and myths in the foundation of this
movement and looking at the wider role of archiving music histories and
current practice surrounding this.
Home of Metal aims to celebrate the musical heritage of Birmingham and
The Black Country. This conference forms part of the “Home of Metal”
exhibitions and festival taking place across Birmingham and The Black
Country in the UK throughout 2011.