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Danish Rock Culture

 
 

The Local, the Regional, and the Global
in the Emergence of Popular Music Cultures

University of Copenhagen, 24-26 October 2005

Amager Campus
Emil Holms Kanal, Building 23

Conference Programme
Revised October 17, 2005

Monday, October 24, 2005

  1.00-1.15 pm

Welcome (Room 23.0.49)
Annemette Kirkegaard (Department of Musicology, University of Copenhagen)
  1.15-2.15 pm


Keynote: Writing Local Histories Within Global Frameworks (Room 23.0.49)
Morten Michelsen (Leader of the Research Project Danish Rock Culture From the 1950s to the 1980s)
Chair: Annemette Kirkegaard
The keynote speech will last approx. 45 minutes and there will be 15 minutes for questions

 

2.15-2.45 pm

Coffee

 

2.45-4.15 pm

Panel: Music, Emotion and Individualisation (Room 23.0.49)
David Hesmondhalgh (Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, England)
Chair: Henrik Bødker (Department of Language and Business Communication, Aarhus School of Business)
Panel: Phylis Johnson (USA), Tom Solomon (N/USA), Gestur Gudmundsson (IS/DK), Lisbeth Ihlemann (DK)
The panel speech will last approx. 30 minutes, comments from four prepared panellists will last 20 minutes, and there will be 40 minutes for discussion including comments from the floor

 

 

4.15-4.30 pm

 

Short break

 

4.30-6.00 pm

Paper Presentations (Room ...)
Papers will last 20 minutes, and there will be 10 minutes for comments

Stream 1: Questions of Hip hop, Session 1 (Room 23.0.49) (Anne Danielsen, chair):
Ove Sernhede: AlieNation Is My Nation: On Hip Hop and Immigrant Youth in Contemporary Sweden
Tom Solomon: Berlin-Frankfurt-Istanbul: Local, Trans-local, and Global Imaginaries in Turkish Rap Music
Petter Dyndahl: Glocalization and Authenticity Discourses of Norwegian Hip Hop

Stream 2: The Negotiation of Place, Session 1 (Room 24.1.45) (Kari Kallioniemi, chair):
Lars Kaijser: A Good Concert: Some Perspectives
Anja Lindelof: Rockin´ on the Couch? Popular Music on Danish Television from the 1950s to the 1980s
Erik Steinskog: Afronauts and Interstellar Space

Stream 3: Local Images, Session 1 (Room 24.3.01) (Yngvar Steinholt, chair):
Odd Skårberg: The Problem of Shaping a Musical Past: Musical Stuff, Dialogues, and Discursive Positions in Norwegian Rock
Patryk Galuszka: Polish Jazz or Polished Jazz? Study of The Yass Phenomenon
Per-Erik Brolinson: Anglo-American Elements in the Modern Swedish Ballads

Stream 4: Local-Global Relations, Session 1 (Room 24.2.07) (Annemette Kirkegaard, chair):
Stuart Rosenberg: In Their Own Words: A Socioeconomic History of Italian-American Vocal Groups in New York City in the Early Years of Rock and Roll
Laura Ahonen: The Issue of Local Identity in the Construction of Björk's Author-image

Stream 5: Tradition and Change, Session 1 (Room 24.0.57) (Kimi Kärki, chair):
Patricia Anne Simpson: Religion and Politics in Comparative Popular Musical Cultures
Lars Lilliestam: The Images of Kent. A Case Study of Mythology and Rock Authenticity
Maria Christina Paganoni: Shaping Hybrid Identities: A Linguistic Analysis of Bhangra Lyrics

 

6.00-7.00 pm

 

Reception (Room 23.1.30)

  Individual dining
 

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

  9.30-10.30 am Keynote: Music and the Over-Identity Crisis (Room 23.0.49)
Martin Stokes (Department of Musicology, University of Chicago, USA)
Chair: Annemette Kirkegaard
The keynote speech will last approx. 45 minutes and there will be 15 minutes for questions
 

 

10.30-11.00am

 

Coffee

 

  11.00-12.30am

Paper Presentations (Room ...)
Papers will last 20 minutes, and there will be 10 minutes for comments

Stream 1: Questions of Hip hop, Session 2 (Room 24.3.07) (Yrjö Heinonen, chair):
Inez Templeton: What´s so German About It: Race and Cultural Identity in Berlin´s Hip Hop Community
Anne Danielsen: Queered Marginality? The Staging of Regional Identity in Norwegian Rap
Liew Kai Khiun: Xi Ha (Hip Hop) Zones Within Global Noises: Mapping the Geographies and Cultural Politics of Chinese Hip Hop

Stream 2: The Negotiation of Place, Session 2 (Room 24.1.30) (Anja Mølle Lindelof, chair):
David-Emil Wickström: Aspects of Identity and Place in the Popular Music of the Post-Sovjet Era: Case Study St. Petersburg
Dietmar Elflein: Authenticity and the Local: Some Thoughts on the Sound of Identities
Jonas Bjälesjö: The Hultsfred Festival: The Place in Music and the Music in Place

Stream 3: Local Images, Session 2 (Room 24.3.01) (Lisbeth Ihlemann, chair):
Kimi Kärki: Stadium-sized Stage Performances
Kari Kallioniemi: The Democratization of Eccentricity
Janne Mäkelä: The Pursuit of International Stardom in Finland

Stream 4: Local-global Relations, Session 2 (Room 24.2.07) (xx, chair)
Annemette Kirkegaard: The Local and the Global in the Music of Savage Rose: Globalisation and Emergent Post-Colonialist Attitudes in Danish Rock in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
Anna Piotrowska: Global or Universal in Polish Popular Music?
Niels Erik Wille: The Trivial, the Popular and the Artistic. Danish Rock at the Crossroads 1965-1975

Stream 5: Tradition and Change, Session 2 (Room 24.0.26) (Tore Tvarnø Lind, Chair):
Gestur Gudmundsson: Rock as a field: The application of Bourdieuan sociology to the study of rock
Terhi Skaniakos: The Nordicness of Nordic Countries
Fabian Holt: African American Musics in Scandinavia: Music, Race and Globalization

 

 

12.30-1.30 pm

 

Lunch

  1.30-3.00 pm Panel: Tricks of a Sound Trade - Popular Music History Writing for Sale (Room 23.0.49)
Lutgard Mutsaers (Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis & Muziekwetenschap, Universiteit Utrecht)
Chair: Lisbeth Ihlemann (Department of Musicology, University of Copenhagen)
Panel: Odd Skårberg (N), Lars Lilliestam (S), Erik Steinskog (N), Kari Kallioniemi (F)
The panel speech will last approx. 30 minutes, comments from four prepared panellists will last 20 minutes, and there will be 40 minutes for discussion including comments from the floor
 

 

3.00-3.30 pm

 

Coffee

 

  3.30-5.00 pm

Paper Presentations (Room ...)
Papers will last 20 minutes, and there will be 10 minutes for comments

Stream 1: Questions of Hip hop, Session 3: (Room 24.1.30) (Mads Krogh, chair):
James Flolu: The Changing Face of Popular Music in Ghana: From Highlife to Hiplife?
Noriko Manabe: Globalization and Japanese Creativity: Adaption of the Japanese Language to Rap
Johan Söderman: Out in the MC Field! How Hip Hop Musicians Construct Their Professional Identities

Stream 2: The Negotiation of Place, Session 3 (Room 24.2.07) (xx, chair)
Hans Weisethaunet: Why is Music National?
Minna Haapio: Should ve Been a Cowboy: Country and Western as National Dialogue
Heli Reimann: ‘Run Away Free Child’: Music and Ideology in the Estonian Film ‘The Last Relic’

Stream 3: Local Images, Session 3 (Room 24.3.01) (Terhi Skaniakos, chair):
Phylis Johnson: Pop U! World Me Project: Singing the Same Song: Music Preference of International Students in Rural University Towns
Yngvar Steinholt: Anchoring Rock in Local Tradition: Rock and Literature in Leningrad
Olav Harsløf: Another Music Experiment Project - The Danish Rock Museum

Stream 4: Local-global Relations, Session 3 (Room 24.0.26) (Henrik Smith-Sivertsen, chair):
Pekka Gronow: The Global and the Local on the Early Scandinavian Record Market
George Brock-Nannestad: The Material Culture of Popular Music Consumption
Ano Sirppiniemi: The Sound of Reason: Web Communities of Music Software Users as Small Scale Techno Cultures

Stream 5: Tradition and Change, Session 3 (Room 24.1.45) (Gestur Gudmundsson, chair):
Keith Kahn-Harris: Understanding Jewish Rap: Pastiche and Syncretism
Henrik Bødker: "And the rest is history": the rock band as narrative community
Alexander Grimm: Innovation and Place in Popular Music Economy: What is the "Hamburger Schule"?

 

 

6.30 pm

 

Conference dinner

 

 

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

  9.30-10.30 am

Keynote: Pop/Rock Music: Global Field, Ethno-National Cultural Uniqueness and Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism (Room 23.0.49)
Motti Regev (Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, the Open University of Israel)
Chair: Gestur Gudmundsson (Department of Educational Sociology, The Danish University of Education)
The keynote speech will last approx. 45 minutes and there will be 15 minutes for questions

 

 

10.30-11.00am

 

Coffee

 

  11.00-12.30am

Panel: Improvising Ontologies and Double Mutabilities: Digitisation, Reification and Place in Musics (Room 23.0.49)
Georgina Born (Cambridge University, England)
Chair: Charlotte Rørdam-Larsen (Department of Musicology, University of Aarhus)
Panel: Hans Weisethaunet (N), Annemette Kirkegaard (DK), Henrik Bødker (DK)
The panel speech will last approx. 45 minutes, comments from four prepared panellists will last 15 minutes, and there will be 30 minutes for discussion including comments from the floor

 

 

12.30-1.30 pm

 

Lunch

 

  1.30-3.00 pm

Paper Presentations (Room ... )
Papers will last 20 minutes, and there will be 10 minutes for comments

Stream 1: Questions of Hip Hop, Session 4
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Stream 2: The Negotiation of Place, Session 4 (Room P1) (Henrik Bødker, chair):
Yue Zhao: Xin Minyue and Min’ge as Contrasting Expressions of National Identity: Two Approaches to the Creation of New Music in Contemporary China
Henrik Marstal: As Beautiful as in the Old Days? Nostalgia Related to the Notion of Danishness in Popular Music Culture Around the Turn of the Millennium
Liv Lande: The Japanese Sawai Koto Institute and Its Performers: Confluence of local and global transmission systems and music trends in their school.

Stream 3: Local Images, Session 4 (Room P3) (Lars Kaijser, chair):
Mark Yoffe: Carnivalesque Laughter: Humorous Tradition in Russian Nationalist Rock Music
Lisbeth Ihlemann: Representations of fandom in Danish pop music magazines
Henrik Smith-Sivertsen: Let me be something – Negotiations between the local and the (local) global in the case of a Danish cover version

Stream 4: Local-global Relations, Session 4 (Room P4) (Erik Steinskog, chair)
Yrjö Heinonen: The Global, the National, and the Regional in the History of the Finnish Tango
Songul Karahasanoglu Ata: Popular Islamic Music in Turkey
Thomas Garcia: Musica Erudite vs. Musica Popular: The Connections Between Popular and Classical in Brazilian Music

  3.00-3.30 pm

Coffee

 

  3.30-4.00 pm

Closing Remarks (Room 23.0.50)
Annemette Kirkegaard and Morten Michelsen