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Songs of Social Protest and the Exploitation of the Children of Syria - Guilnard Moufarrej April 29 th Registration 8.45 -9.15am, Foyer outside Room GEMS0 -016 , UL Welcome Remarks and Official Conference Launch by Dr Aileen Dillane, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, UL Room GEMS0-016, UL Wednesday 9.30 -11.00 1 Illusions of Action: Three V ersions of Room “Birmingham Sunday - Annie J. Randall GEMS0-028, UL SESSION (A1) – 2 Protest and Authenticity in Turkish Chair: Aileen popular Music Videos – Lyndon C. Way Dillane Protest songs: Recontextualisation and 3 Singing "Hasta Siempre, Comandante" Authenticity in Tunisia: Images of Che Guevara after the Arab Spring – Alan Karass SESSION (A 2) – 1 Yiddish as Counter -Hegemonic Protest in Room Contemporary Israel - Eliahu Adelman GEMS0-016, UL Punk’s not Dead 2 Pussy riot: Performing "Punkness ”; or, Taking the "Riot" out of Riot Grrrl - Chair: Martin Julianne Graper Power 3 Censored? – The invisibility of punk music in contemporary neoliberal Portugal - Maria João Ramos Pinheiro da Silva Coffee Break Wednesday 11 .30 -1.00 1 Singing protest in post -war Italy: Room Fabrizio De André's songs within the GEMS1-023, UL SESSION (B1) – context of Italian canzone d'autore – Riccardo Orlandi Chair: Annie Interrogating the Randall significance of a single 2 Sting and the Protest Song – Paul Carr artist to the genre of protest music 3 From Little Things, Big Things Grow: Paul Kelly, Aboriginal Rights, and the Structure and Efficacy of the 'Message' Song – Aileen Dillane 1 'Where everything trembles in the Room SESSION (B2) – balance': Ekstasis, Liminality and Singing GEMS0-016, UL Ideas - Tríona Ní Shíocháin Singing Ideas Chair: Michael G. 2 But Do You Really Mean It? Kelly Performance, Protest and the Politics of Rebel Songs in Republican West Belfast – Stephen R. Millar 3 Mixing Pop & Politics: What's The Use? - Keith Watterson 1 Creating protest discourse Nueva Room SESSION (B3) – Canción in the context of repressive GEMS0-028, UL regimes in Latin America (1962-1985) - Chair: Tony Protest in Latin America Ana Rajković Langlois 2 Elite social protest? Lima's white upper classes subverting their own hegemony through music - Fiorella Montero Diaz 3 Columbian Protest Songs in the 1960s- 1970s: From Grass Roots to Commercial Viability - Joshua Katz-Rosene Lunch @ The Pavilion Wednesday 2.30 -4. 00 1 “Straight Outta B.C.”: Juice Aleem’s Room Precolonial Protest – J. Griffith GEMS0-029 , UL SESSION (C1) - Mediating Rollefsonn Local songs of protest on Chair: Aileen the global Stage 2 Zorbas--Flashmob and Kebabs in a Dillane Diasporic Protest Against the Stereotyping of Inequality - Michalis Poupazis 3 “Order 1081”: Martial Law at the Discothèque – Áine Mangaoang 4 So much noise, so few songs: the deafening non-musicality of the Greek crisis – Ioannis Tsioulakis 1 Punk Rock Made Me a Psycho (therapist ) Room SESSION (C2) -Songs of - David Meagher GEMS0-016, UL Social Protest and Mental Health 2 How Post Punk and New Wave Music Chair: Eoin Impacted on Society’s Understanding of Devereux Mental Illness - Walter Cullen 3 ‘Outsider’ visual art and songs of protest - Harry Kennedy *This panel will utilise live musical as well as visual aids SESSION ( C3 ) - Multi - 1 Alliance through Music: Kurdish Music Room referential Songs and Social and the Reconstruction of Protest in Turkey GEMS0-028 , UL Protest in Turkey - Gönenç Hongur Chair: Amanda 2 Paradigm Shift in Street Politics through Haynes song in Turkey – E. Şirin Özgün 3 The Short History of a Feminist Song from Istanbul - Evrim Hikmet Öğüt Coffee Break Room Wednesday 4.30-5.15 KEYNOTE 1 GEMS0-016, UL No on Hate/ No Viva Hate: Morrissey Fandom as Queer Resistance in Ozomatli's "Gay Vatos in Love" – Melissa M. Hidalgo Chair: Eoin Devereux Wednesday 7.00-8.30 This is Radio Clash - Protest Disco with Dr Dev. - Scholars Club DJ Dr. Eoin Devereux will spin the discs and celebrate the work of Joe Strummer and The Clash. Expect lots of Clash tunes and the best of punk, ska and reggae in the mix… April 30 th Thur sday 9. 00 - 9:30 Room 'There's No Future in England's Dreaming: A Reading from Star of the Sea GEMS0-016, UL and The Thrill of it All - Joseph O’ Connor Thur sday 9.30 -11.00 1 "Her Voice Became my Own": Room Confessional Songwriting as GEMS0-016, UL Consciousness-Raising in the United States SESSION (D1) – Singer-Songwriter Movement, 1968-1975 - Chair: Melissa M. Christa Anne Bentley Hidalgo Subverting Hegemony 2 “Billie Holiday’s Popular Front songs of protest: Strange Fruit and God Bless the Child” - Jonathon Bakan 3 Stranger In My Land: Roger Knox and Political Country and Western in Indigenous Australian Music Culture – Felicity Cull 1 The Production of Protest Song During Room SESSION (D2) – Dictatorship and Revolutionary Period in GEMS0-028, UL Portugal - José Hugo Pires Castro Revolution, Dictatorship Chair: Riccardo and Democracy 2 The trajectory of protest song from Orlandi dictatorship to democracy: the Catalan nova canco - Núria Borrull SESSION ( D3 ) – 1 The Giant woke up: Music Industry and Room Political Movements in Brazil - Julia GEMS0-029 , UL Protest and the music Silveira, Thainne Oliveira, Simone Industry Evangelista & Marianna Ferreira, Chair: Desi Wilkinson 2 'God Save the Queen'. From Protest to Mainstream. Ideological appropriation of British Newspaper's portrayal of Sex Pistols in the late 1970's - Martin Husak 3 The Visual and Material Culture of Struggle and Protest in Folkway Records – Joan E. Greer Coffee Break Thur sday 11 .30 -1.00 1 'Idir, Kabyle song and the festival du Film Room Amazigh: encouraging cultural plurality in GEMS0-028 , UL SESSION (E1) – Algeria' – Desi Wilkinson Chair: Michalis Diversity, Resistance and 2 The Telangana movement and its Poupazis Protest tradition of protest songs - Rahul Sambaraju 3 Casteism and Capitalism: Social and Spiritual Change through Kabir Singing in Central India - Vivek Virani 1 Bob Dylan and John Lennon: A New Room SESSION (E2) – Typology of Anti-war Protest Songs – Jon GEMS0-029 , UL Stewart Taxonomies of Protest Song Chair: Tiffany 2 The Message Behind the Beat: Social and Naiman Political Connections and Themes in American Punk and Rap Music, the Rise and Fall – Matthew Donahue 3 Critical protest songs and ambivalence about critique: New Model Army and neo- liberalism – Tom Boland 1 Singing our difference: The multimodal Room SESSION (E3) – performance of UK alterity and Otherness GEMS0-016, UL in Scottish traditional song – Simon Telling the truth about how McKerrell Chair: Joan Greer people feel 2 The Structures of Feeling in Industrial Song-Poems of Protest in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada - Richard MacKinnon 3 Empathy: The quality of the Protest Singer – Brendan Downey Lunch @ The Pavilion Thur sday 2.00-3.30 1 "Lieber Staat…danke dass du mich Room regierst und in Serbien einmarschierst": GEMS0-028 , UL SESSION (F1) – Protesting agaist the Yugoslav wars in the German punk rock songs - Jelena Chair: Eoin Protest song and the Dureinovic Devereux Balkans 2 Remembering the Socialist Yu-Topia: The Garage-Choir Kombinat Recycling Partisan and Revolutionary Songs - Alenka Barber-Kersovan 1 “We Shall Overcome”: African American Room SESSION (F2) - Protest Song - Thérèse Smith GEMS0-016, UL African American Protest 2 Wade in the Water: Social Protest Songs Chair: Anthony and the African American Experience - Ashbolt Robert W Stephens & Mary Ellen Junda 3 The Strange History of “Kumbaya”: Challenging Cultural Defusion of Songs for Peace and Justice - Robbie Lieberman SESSION ( F3 ) - 1 Exploiting Musical Traditions: The Room Protest Songs of Ton Steine Scherben and GEMS0-029 , UL Protest songs and Identity Franz Josef Degenhardt – David Robb formation Chair: Aileen 2 Identity construction and modernity Dillane negotiation in the tradition of choral singing in contemporary Estonia - Emilia Pawlusz 3 Symbolic Resistance: The importance of music as expression of protest of young migrants in Vienna - Roman Horak Coffee Break Thurs day 4.00 - 5.00 KEYNOTE 2 Room "Protest Music and 'Counter-Protest' Music in Israel: An Analysis of Yuval GEMS0-016, UL ben Ami's Kiss My As, Liebermanand - Ariel Zilber's Politically Correct " – Chair: Amanda Jonathan C. Friedman Haynes Thurs day 6.30 Conference Dinner followed by Damien Dempsey live performance - Dolans Pub, Dock Road, Limerick City. May 1 st Frid ay 9.30 -10.30 Room Workshop – GEMS0-016, UL How to write a Protest Song in the style of Bertolt Brecht – Mike Wilson Coffee Break Friday 11 .00 -12.30 1 All we are doing is Protesting - Mike Room Hajimichael GEMS0-028 , UL SESSION (G1) – 2 Songs of dissent and revolution: the case Chair: Aine of Portugal – Isabel David Mangaoang The possibilities from protest songs 3 'Caught in a Culture Crossover': the Pakistani protest within rock against racism – Joe O’ Connell 1 Songs and Identity in the Umbrella Room SESSION (G2) – Movement in Hong Kong - Jessica F. GEMS0-029 , UL Kong & Anthony Y. 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