Tuesday 2ND June 2020

18:00 UK Time – Keynote: Lori Burns (Ottawa)

Femininity and Vocal Subjectivity in Metal: Floor Jansen’s Negotiations of Expressive Space

Thursday 4th June 2020

18:00 UK Time – Book Launch by Paul Carr and Allan Moore

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research

19:45 UK Time – Concert: Phil Braithwaite, Ben Donnelly, Green Tangerines

Paper Presentations

EDDIE ASHWORTH (OHIO UNIVERSITY, USA) (Abstract)

The Psychedelic Menagerie of Robyn Hitchcock

ZACH DIAZ (UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, UK) (Abstract)

“It’s Fan-Tas-Tic”: New Approaches to Interpreting Un-Quantized Rhythmic Elements of Hip-Hop Production in the “Post-Dilla” Era

MAGDALENA FUERNKRANTZ (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Austria) (Abstract)

Analysing the Pop Persona. An Exploration of a New Interdisciplinary Approach to the Analysis of Popular Music as Performance

MIMI HADDON (UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, UK) (Abstract)

Matrices of “Love and Theft”: Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Gendered and Racial Capital

FRED HOSKEN (NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, USA) (Abstract)

Tight Verses and Loose Choruses: The Shaping of the Metric ‘Pocket’ Across Pop Forms

SANGHEON LEE (GUSTAVE EIFFEL UNIVERSITY, FRANCE) (Abstract)

Not Just an ‘Extra-musical’ Scandal: A Musical Dialectic in and through the Sex Pistols’ Recordings

JOHN MCGRATH (UNIVERSITY OF SURREY, UK) (Abstract)

Laurie Anderson’s Transmedia Storytelling

MATTIA MERLINI (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) (Abstract)

Fertilising Deaths. Deconstructing Prog’s Death to Understand Post-Prog

STEPHANIE NAISBETT (UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, UK) (Abstract)

Elvis are you out there?’: narrative voice and symbolism in Kate Bush’s ‘King of the Mountain’

KJELL ANDREAS ODDEKALV (UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, NORWAY) (Abstract)

Metre meets metre – how do we hear, analyse and listen to rap flows?

MARIA PEREVEDENTSEVA (GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UK) (Abstract)

BOOM-DISC: Analysing Genre-Specific Discursive Tropes in Electronic Dance Music on Boomkat.com

NASSOS POLYZOIDIS (BATH SPA UNIVERSITY, UK) (Abstract)

Rebetiko and blues: from Yiorgos Batis’s ‘O Boufetzis’ (1935) to Georges Pilali’s ‘Teketzis’ (1994)

ALAN STANBRIDGE (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CANADA) (Abstract)

From Singing Cowboys to Kitchen Appliances: The Long Strange Trip of ‘You Are My Sunshine’

ANGHARAD THOMAS (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK) (Abstract)

An Ethnographic Approach To Analysing Vocal Production In UK Contemporary Popular Music