Here is the finalised programme for the symposium, which includes jazz festivals and several contributions from the Rhythm Changes team. Further information, including directions and registration information, is here.
Friday 13 June 2014, The Old Fire Station, University of Salford
9:30 – 9:50: Arrival and Coffee
9:50 – 10:00: Welcome and introduction – Professor George McKay, University of Salford
10:00 – 10:45: Keynote 1 – Dr Gina Arnold, Stanford University
Race, space, and representation at American rock festivals
10:45 – 12:15: Session 1 – Aspects of and developments in festival culture
Dr Nicholas Gebhardt, Birmingham City University
Rock festivals of the transatlantic counterculture
Dr Anne Dvinge, University of Copenhagen
Musicking in Motor City: reconfiguring urban space at the Detroit Jazz Festival
Dr Roxanne Yeganegy, Leeds Metropolitan University
No Spectators! Burning Man, boutique festivals and the art of participation
12:15 – 1:00: Lunch
Includes screening of short film, “Carnivalising the Creative Economy: AHRC-funded Research on and with British Jazz Festivals” (dir. Gemma Thorpe, 2014)
1:00 – 2:30: Session – Mediating, Performing and Technologising the Festival
Dr Mark Goodall, University of Bradford
Out of Sight: the mediation of the music festival
Dr Rebekka Kill, Leeds Metropolitan University
The artist at the music festival: visual art, performance and hybridity
Dr Andrew Dubber, Birmingham City University
Music Technologism: innovation, collaboration and participation at the festival of music ideas
2:30 – 3:15: Keynote 2 – Alan Lodge, veteran festivals photographer and travellers activist
Discussion and showing of some key photographs of festivals, New Travellers and alternative culture in Britain since the late 1970s
3:15 – 3:30: Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:15: Session 3 – How to Make a Popular Music Festival
Ben Robinson, director, Kendal Calling festival
Danny Hagan, co-founder, Green Man festival
4:15 – 5:45: Session 4 – From Festivals to Arenas
Professor Robert Kronenburg, University of Liverpool
From Shed to Venue: The Architecture of Popular Music Performance
Dr Emma Webster, Oxford Brookes University
The role of promoters at arena shows: a case study of Stereophonics at Glasgow’s SECC arena
Dr Ben Halligan, University of Salford
Skanky Shamanism: Sensual Audience Participation and the Miley Cyrus “Bangerz” Arena Tour
5:45 – 6:00pm: Close