Call for Papers:POPULAR MUSIC AND AUTOMOBILE CULTURE: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUMBinks Building, University of Chester, EnglandFriday 22nd June 2012Event organisers:Dr Chris Hart, Dr Mark Duffett and Dr Beate PeterFrom Cadillacs to tour buses, motor vehicles and popular music have developed in parallel as symbiotic commodities. Their intimate and intertwined relationship evokes issues and feelings that characterize life in modern society. The conference aims to outline and discuss this relationship between these two culturally charged commodities. Motor transport is a dominant feature of the modern world. Cars, buses, trucks and everything in between have their followers and dissenters. Vehicles offer the functions of mobility, freedom, speed and...