23RD JUNE 2020

18:00 UK Time – Keynote: Stan Hawkins (University of Oslo, Norway)

Staging the Spectacle: The Dandyist Theatrics of Jacques Dutronc

Followed by Panel Discussion with Stan Hawkins, Freya Jarman, Kai Arne Hansen and Philip Auslander


19:30 UK Time – Concert: Utililux


25TH JUNE 2020

18:00 UK TIME – THE COPLA CABARET by Alejandro Postigo (University of West London)

Followed by discussion with Liz Pipe (University of West London)


Paper Presentations


NATHAN FLESHNER (UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, USA) (ABSTRACT)

MALVINA REYNOLDS SINGS THE TRUTH: U.S. SOCIOPOLITICAL THEMES IN 1967 AND THEIR VARIATIONS IN THE POST-TRUTH ERA


KAI ARNE HANSEN (INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, NORWAY) (ABSTRACT)

LIL NAS X, SOUNDS OF THE INTERNET, AND QUEERING COWBOY MASCULINITY


BRIAN INGLIS (MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY, UK) (ABSTRACT)

DIFFERENT LOVES, SAME FEELING: CHARACTERISING (SEXUAL) DIFFERENCE IN EARLY 21st-CENTURY ANGLO-AMERICAN POP-ROCK


MAREK JEZINSKI (NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY, POLAND) (ABSTRACT)

HOLY HITS LIST. ON CANONS, SACRALISATION AND HEGEMONIC DISCOURSE IN POPULAR MUSIC


TOBY MARTIN (UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD, UK) (ABSTRACT)

SONGWRITING IN COMMUNITY: PRACTICE-LED RESEARCH AND SOCIAL INQUIRY


ALEJANDRO POSTIGO (UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON, UK) (ABSTRACT)

THE COPLA CABARET: PRESENTING SPANISH COPLA IN THE 21st CENTURY