26TH MAY

18:00 UK Time: Keynote: Gareth Dylan Smith (Boston University)

in discussion with Pamela Burnard (Cambridge University) and Dan Walzer (Indiana University)

Making (Un)popular Music: Musicking, Authenticity, Eudaimonism

20:00 UK Time – Live Streamed Concert

Three live sets: Phil Braithwaite, Si Paton and Ray Louise Coyle

Paper Presentations

PETER DOYLE (MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA) [Abstract]

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE: (RE)CONSIDERING THE MEDIOCRE IN POPULAR MUSIC

ALEXEI MICHAILOWSKY (YORK UNIVERSITY, CANADA) [Abstract]

PATSY GALLANT’S USE OF VOCAL TECHNIQUES: CONSTRUCTING AND RECONSTRUCTING A FLUID MUSICAL PERSONA

J. GRIFFITH ROLLEFSON (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND) [Abstract]

“SOUL CRAFT”: THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF BAD BRAINS, H.R.’s THROAT, AND OTHER HUMAN RESOURCES

EWAN STEFANI (UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UK) [Abstract]

ANALOGUE SYNTHESIZER PERFORMANCE PRACTICE

PAUL THOMPSON (LEEDS BECKETT UNIVERSITY, UK) [Abstract]

ANOTHER TAKE: EXPLORING THE SOUND OF CUBAN DANCE MUSIC USING EXPERIMENTAL ARCHEOLOGY IN THE RECORDING STUDIO

TOM WILLIAMS (Academy of Contemporary Music (Surrey), UK) [Abstract]

DISTORTING JAZZ GUITAR: DISTORTION AS EFFECT, CREATIVE TOOL AND EXTENSION OF THE INSTRUMENT

SIMON ZAGORSKI-THOMAS (UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON, UK) [Abstract]

Would You Award Björk or Jimi Hendrix A Practice-Led PhD? – what form does new knowledge take in popular music?