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Post-punk seminar: git along!
THE CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES PRESENTS Dr Graham St John Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland Making a Noise˜Making a Difference: From Techno-Punk to “Punk-Hop” Date: Thursday 16th June 2005 Place: Seminar Room 402, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, 4th Floor Forgan Smith Tower, St Lucia Campus, The…
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Wish they had a vacancy for a back scrubber…
How good does the programme for The Smiths symposium look? Still jealous.
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Why Pamper Life’s Complexities? A Symposium on the Smiths
How I wish I could find an excuse to go to this…but I haven’t got one. I guess I’ll be left behind and sour…I wonder if they have a vacancy for a back scrubber? Manchester Institute of Popular Culture Manchester Metropolitan University April 8th and 9th 2005 The Smiths have had a singular impact on…
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Farewell to Johnny Ramone
RIP Johnny. That is, Revel in Punk. Ouch, that’s lame.
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thesis
I’ve finally gotten around to submitting my Masters thesis for permanent binding. It’s now online for your reading pleasure. If you find typos, don’t tell me! But any other feedback or comments would be hugely appreciated. Here’s the abstract: High Culture as Subculture: Brisbane’s Contemporary Chamber Music Scene The aim of the dissertation is to…
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First Monday: Filesharing and Subculture
At First Monday: Digital music and subculture: Sharing files, sharing styles by Sean Ebare. Via hypergene mediablog.
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[grid::ritual] Sounds in Social Space: The Contemporary Chamber Music Concert
Luckily the topic for this month’s grid blogging exercise is ‘ritual’ – it fits into what I?ve been thinking and writing about for the last couple of years – my masters thesis is a study of Brisbane?s contemporary chamber music scene as a subculture. A fundamental principle behind what I?ve been doing is that music…
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8 Days to Go
I haven’t been blogging as much as I’d like for the last few days, but I have a good reason – I’m officially submitting my Masters thesis on 20/01/04, which is only 8 days away. I’m sure this will seem very exciting once it is printed, bound and submitted (mmmm…beer), but at the moment I…
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Subcultures and Sonic Proliferation, Part 2 (A Work in Progress)
A Sonic Landscape of Epidemic Proportions To start, some almost laughably obvious but nevertheless fundamental points about the impact of digital media on music consumption (and production): firstly, there is an enormous amount of digital music “out there” (here?) on the internet. Secondly, this music agglomerates, migrates, and proliferates in an apparently chaotic manner, at…
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Subcultures and Sonic Proliferation, Part 1
Sebastian Chan, who is the editor of the snappy electronic music mag Cyclic Defrost and runs the Youth – Sound – Space forum emailed me today in response to last week’s blog entry Gatekeeping the Fruity Loops Revolution. Quite a vigorous email discussion ensued, which needs editing but I’ll post now as background to my…