Music, Culture and Society Conference 2008
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Music, Culture and Society Conference 2008
Level 7, 30 Collins Street,
Melbourne Vic 3000,
Phone: 03 9903 8000
Theme
There is now widespread agreement that ‘music is more than notes’, a growing recognition that music is culturally formed and serves diverse social purposes. But the social life of music is inherently paradoxical. Music both announces social change and consolidates collective memory; it both gives expression to personal identity and connects us to others. Furthermore, in modern life, music is both a vehicle for transcending the everyday and an integral part of it. It is the soundtrack to much of our existence and that soundtrack is highly technological. Musical technologies deeply impact the musical experience and the social relations that music enters into.
This conference aims to bring together scholars from fields as diverse as musicology, communications and media studies, sociology, social history, political theory, philosophy and Asian studies, to examine the paradoxical, deeply-felt and often contradictory roles that music plays in social life and culture more broadly. Presenters will address the socio-cultural role of music through diverse genres and styles – from pop to classical, experimental to conventional - and from various disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. The conference will feature an afternoon involving presentations from students pursuing postgraduate research on the socio-cultural aspects of music.
Keynote Speakers
Professor Agnes Heller, New School for Social Research
‘Modern Hermeneutics and the Presentation of Opera’
Agnes Heller - Monash distinguished visitor profile
Dr. Michael Bull, University of Sussex
‘Sounding Out Cosmopolitanism: iPod Culture and Recognition’
Professor Andy Bennett, Griffith University
‘Musical Taste, Ageing and Lifestyle’
Participants will include:
- Professor Peter Beilharz (Sociology, La Trobe University)
- Dr. Daniel Black (Communications and Media Studies, Monash University)
- Dr. Joseph Borlagdan (National Centre for Education & Training on Addiction, Flinders University)
- Dr. Joel Crotty (Music, Monash University)
- Dr. Joanne Cummings (Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney)
- Dr. Stuart Grant (Performance Studies, University of Sydney)
- Lawrence Harvey (Soundlab, RMIT)
- Dr. Shane Homan (Communications and Media Studies, Monash University)
- Dr Adrian Martin (Film and Television Studies, Monash University)
- Professor David Roberts (German, Monash University)
- Dr. John Rundell (Ashworth Program in Social Theory, University of Melbourne)
- Dr. Robert Savage (Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University)
- David Shea (The Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts)
- Dr. Graeme Smith (Music, Monash University)
- Associate Professor Alison Tokita (Japanese, Monash University)
- Clinton Walker (writer and historian of Australian popular music)
- Associate Professor Craig de Wilde (Music, Monash University)
- Julie Waters (Music, Monash University)
- Dr. Chris Worth (Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University)
The Organizers
Dr. Eduardo de la Fuente, Communications and Media Studies, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University
Email: Eduardo.delaFuente@arts.monash.edu.au
Mobile: 0432834055
Associate Professor Peter Murphy, Communications and Media Studies, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University
Email: Peter.Murphy@arts.monash.edu.au