Music, culture and society
There is now widespread agreement that ‘music is more than notes’, a growing recognition that music is culturally formed and serves diverse social purposes.
Music both announces social change and strengthens collective memory; it both gives expression to personal identity and connects us to others. In modern life, music is a vehicle for transcending the everyday. It is the soundtrack to much of our existence and that soundtrack is highly technological. Musical technologies deeply impacts the musical experience and society.
The Music, Culture and Society conference brought together scholars from diverse fields to examine the contradictory roles that music plays in social life and culture. Presenters addressed the social and cultural role of music through diverse genres and styles – from pop to classical, experimental to conventional. Various persepctives were brought into play and featured an afternoon of presentations from students pursuing postgraduate research on the social and cultural aspects of music.
Date
6-8 March 2008
Venue
Monash Conference Centre, Melbourne
Program
Keynote speakers
- Michael Bull (Reader in Media and Film, University of Sussex)
- Professor Andy Bennett (Deputy Director of the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University, Australia)
- Emeritus Professor Agnes Heller (New School for Social Research)
Invited speakers
- Professor Peter Beilharz (Sociology, La Trobe University)
- Dr Joanne Cummings (PhD Graduate, Department of Sociology, University of Western Sydney)
- Lawrence Harvey (Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT)
- Dr Daniel Black (Communications and Media Studies, Monash University)
- Dr Joseph Borlagdan (National Centre for Education & Training on Addiction, Flinders University)
- Emeritus Professor David Roberts (School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University)
- Eduardo de la Fuente (Lecturer, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University)
- Associate Professor Peter Murphy (Lecturer, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University)
- Trevor Hogan (Senior Lecturer, Sociology Program, La Trobe)
- Dr Chris G. Worth Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University)
- Dr Joel Crotty (Music, Faculty of Arts, Monash University)
- Dr Adrian Martin (Film and Television Studies, Monash University)
- Julie Waters (PhD Student, Music, Monash University)
- Associate Professor Craig De Wilde (Head of the School of Music-Conservatorium, Monash University)
- Dr Graeme Smith (Lecturer, School of Music-Conservatorium, Monash University)
- Dr Alison Tokita (Director, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University)
- Philip Flavin (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Monash University)
- Aline Scott-Maxwell (Ethnomusicologist and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Music, Monash University)
- David Shea (The Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts)
- Dr Robert Savage (Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University)
- Dr John Rundell (Ashworth Program in Social Theory, University of Melbourne)
- Dr Stuart Grant (Performance Studies, University of Sydney)
- Marios Elles (PhD Student, Sociology Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
- Clinton Walker (writer and historian of Australian popular music)
- Michael Walsh (PhD Student, Department of Media and Communications at Monash University)
- Mark Jennings (PhD Student, Murdoch University, Western Australia)
Abstracts
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Podcasts
Titles of papers link directly to mp3 files. If you require a transcription please contact the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies.
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