Start time: 9.30am, room 013/2, Binks Building, main Parkgate Road campus.
While a range of researchers in cultural studies - notably Henry Jenkins, Matt Hills and Cornell Sandvoss - have moved the discussion about media fandom forward, much less work has been done specifically on popular music fandom. Confirmed speakers...
Tonya Anderson, University of Sunderland:
Dr Lucy Bennett, Cardiff University:
Triskaidekaphobics: R.E.M. Fans in Pursuit of the Ultimate First Listen
Nancy Bruseker, University of Liverpool:
With(in) the Band: the Queering of the Female Fan Experience
Dr Mark Duffett, University of Chester:
Fan Words: Towards a New Vocabulary of Fan Theory
Dr Karen Fournier, University of Michigan:
From Fandom to Stardom in Punk: The Female Experience
John Harries, Recording Artist:
Jack Harrison, Georgetown University, USA:
Critiquing the Lyrics, Critiquing the Music: Inverting the Critical Work of Fanvids
Dr Nedim Hassan, University of Liverpool:
Hidden Fans? Fandom and Domestic Musical Activity
Dr Matt Hills, Cardiff University:
Keynote speech: Post-popular music, mnemic communities, and intermediary fandoms: Challenging general approaches to fan culture?
Martin King, Principal lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University:
Beatlemania: In the Beginning there was the Scream
Alexei Michailowsky, UNIRIO, Brazil:
Dr Beate Peter, University of Salford:
Metalheadz, Punks, Ravers: Genre, Fandom and the Non-musical Expression of Belonging
Janne Poikolainen, University of Helsinki, Finland:
Dr Nicola Smith, University of Wales Institute Cardiff:
Simone Varriale, University of Bologna, Italy:
Politicizing Fandom: Music Listeners as Imagined Subjectivities in the 1970s Italian Music Press
Rebecca Williams, Lecturer, University of Glamorgan:
Nancy Young, Lesley University, USA:
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