10 June 2016, Friends’ Meeting House, Mount St, Manchester
Recently, there has been a significant revival of interest in the diverse legacy of Raymond Williams. So far, however, the connections between Williams and the study of subcultures, popular music and social change have been little explored. How have Williams’s early work, his later cultural materialist approach, and the work of those influenced by him, shaped the field? And how might this tradition be developed to address some of the most pressing issues and problems in contemporary popular musical and subcultural studies?
Confirmed speakers include Rhian E. Jones (author of Clampdown: Pop Cultural Wars on Class and Gender), Anne Robinson (University of the Arts London) and Pete Dale (Manchester Metropolitan University)
We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations from all with an interest in the theme. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Working class culture, popular music and subculture
- Structures of feeling
- Cultural materialism and the contemporary music industry
- Technology and new media
- Theories of subculture/post-subculture
- ‘The politics of modernism’ – tensions between musical and political radicalism
- Williams’ work in adult education and the recent interest in alternative pedagogies in popular musical and subcultural studies
- Residual, emergent and dominant musical forms and subcultures post-2000
For more information or to book a place, please e-mail David Wilkinson d.wilkinson@mmu.ac.uk or Pete Dale p.dale@mmu.ac.uk