18th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music BACK TO THE FUTURE: POPULAR MUSIC AND TIME Preliminary Conference Programme MONDAY 29 JUNE 2015 09:00 – 13:00 REGISTRATION 13:00 – 15:00 LUNCH 15:00 – 18:00 – OPENING CONFERENCE - Arrigo Barnabé TUESDAY 30 June 2015 09:00 – 10:40 SESSION 1 1.1. Popular music, ageing bodies and cultural legitimacy (A1) Adam Behr (Edinburgh University, UK) - Didn’t die before they got old: Rock performance and ageing Andy Bennett (Griffith University, Australia) - Popular music, performance and new discourses of ageing Christine Feldman-Barrett (Griffith University, Australia) - Middle-Aged Grrrls? Third Wave Feminism, Generation X, and the “Perils” of Aging Music Celebrities Mary Fogarty (York University, Canada) - Ageing B-Boys and Muscle Memory: Towards A Sociological Account of Movement 1.2. Experimental Practices in Latino/a America (H1) Daniel Party (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) - Discussant and Chair 1 Website: https://18iaspm.wordpress.com Susan Thomas (University of Georgia) - Cultural Revolution, the Avant-garde, and Popular Music: Understanding the Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC Alejandro L. Madrid (Cornell University) and Pepe Rojo (University of California, San Diego) - Experimentalism as Estrangement: Neo-liberal Globalization and Café Tacvba’s Revés/Yo soy Ana R. Alonso Minutti (University of New Mexico) - “Gatas y Vatas”: Female Empowerment and Community-Oriented Experimentalism 1.3. Music and Translation (H8) Sergio Mazzanti (University of Macerata) - Translating musicals: a national Jesus Christ Superstar Alessandro Bratus (Università di Pavia) - As screened on the jukebox: The translation of cinematic theme songs in Italy in the 1950s and the 1960s Isabel Campelo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - The role of Portuguese translations in the shaping of Brazilian and Portuguese popular music (1960-2013) Rachel Tollett (Northwestern University) - KINO: Musical Space and Translating Space in the Music of Victor Tsoi 1.4. Bossa Beyond Brasil, 1964-69 (H12) Kevin Fellezs (Columbia University) - Blue-Eyed Soul Sauce: Cal Tjader, Bossa Nova, and the Tropical Sublime David R. Shumway (Carnegie Mellon University) - “The Girl from Ipanema”: America on the Cusp Kariann Goldschmitt (University of Cambridge) - From the 'Jet Set' to Intrigue: Bossa Nova and the 1960s International Spy Thriller Keir Keightley (University of Western Ontario) - Astrud Gilberto, Jet-Set Superstar 1.5. There is no future: resistance, lo-fi and Do It Yourself on punk music (H16) Fabrício Silveira (Unisinos) - Remote time and the return of the primitive in the UrPunk aesthetics Marcelo Bergamin Conter (UFRGS) - Four decades in four tracks: amateurism, authenticity, spirituality and affects of lo-fi music Jhessica Reia (UFRJ) - The future is here: DIY, new technologies and straight edge 2 Website: https://18iaspm.wordpress.com Marina Corrêa da Silva de Araujo (UFRGS) - The avant-garde aesthetics in pop culture: punk rock in New York in the presentism age 1.6. Sexuality and subalternity in contemporary music: a comparative approach between cumbia, tango, funk and sertanejo (M3) Pablo Alabarces (Universidade de Buenos Aires-CONICET, Argentina) - “Laura, se te v ela tanga”: Argentine cumbia and its gender representations Mercedes Liska (Universidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Post-sensual femininities: gestual and body aesthetic and erotic textualities in contemporary tango in Buenos Aires Gustavo Alonso (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) - The sertanejo music and the sentimental metamorphosis Felipe Trotta (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) - (Hyper)masculinity stereotypes in funk carioca 1.7. Phenomenological Time: Identification (Ph6) Alisha Lola Jones (University of Chicago) - Gendered Beats and Sanctified Distortion: Peculiar People, Masculinity and Gospel Go-Go Music Tobias Marx (Kassel University) - Cohesion In Small Semi-Professional Music Groups Donna Weston (Griffith University) - Passing Time: Music Making and the Politics of Inclusion in an Asylum Seeker Transit Centre Luciana Xavier de Oliveira (Universidade Federal Fluminense) - White Black Dance? Nostalgia, racial performances and questions of taste 1.8. Not Burning Out; Not Fading Away: Aging Artists in Rock, Pop, And Hip Hop (A4) Gabriel Solis (University of Illinois, USA) - Bad as Me: Narrative Age, Chronological Age, and Tom Waits as Reluctant Boomer David Novak (University of California, USA) - “Walking on my Grave”: Getting Old, Rocking On Murray Forman (Northeastern University, USA) - Remaining “Relevant”: The Hip-Hop Veteran’s Dilemma Alan Williams (University of Massachusetts, USA) - Living Nostalgia: Pete Townshend and the “My Generation” Gap 3 Website: https://18iaspm.wordpress.com 1.9. Formats and Distribution in the Digital Age (M6) José Eduardo Ribeiro de Paiva (UNICAMP, Brazil) - The piracy and download giving new meaning relations between artist and Market Beatriz Polivanov (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) and Lucas Waltenberg (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) - Synthetica: reflections on the (im)materiality of music in albums-apps Tatiana Rodrigues Lima (Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Brazil) - Mediation and mediatization of popular music in the age of digital networks Tamas Tofalvy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) - Of Vinyls, Mp3s and Cultural Capital: The Social Construction of Audio Formats Over Time 10:45 – 11:10 COFFE BREAK 11:10 – 12:50 SESSION 2 2.1. Danzón, ageing and performance in Cuba and Mexico (A2) Alejandro L. Madrid (discussant) (Cornell University, USA) Cristina Tamariz (Colegio de México, Mexico) - ‘¡El danzón no es para viejitos!’ Ethnographic reflections on the construction of a 'social age' in danzón performance in Mexico City Hettie Malcomson (University of Southampton, UK) - Dance, romance and ageing: Danzón in the Port of Veracruz, Mexico Sue Miller (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) - Embodied Musical Memories Amongst Cuba’s Amigos del Danzón 2.2. Sonic Insurgences in Popular Culture (H4) Erica R. Edwards (discussant) (University of California, Riverside) Shana L. Redmond (University of Southern California) - Singing Like it’s 1985: Disaster and the Popular C. Riley Snorton (Cornell University) - Hearing the Trans in Trans-Atlantic Literature, Or the Sonic Repertoires of the Black Modernist Literary Tradition Deborah R. Vargas (University of California, Riverside) - “Ya La India Llegó” (“La India Has Arrived”) 4 Website: https://18iaspm.wordpress.com 2.3. Fiery Horizons in Black Music Cultures: Contemporary Blurrings of the Sacred and Secular in Sound and Sense (H10) Birgitta J. Johnson (University of South Carolina) - The Gospel of Beyoncé: Religious Remixes of the Ultra Secular in the Social Media Age Charrise Barron (Harvard University) - “This is Why I’m Hot”: Hip-hop’s Influence in Contemporary Gospel Music Meagan Sylvester (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine) - Unleashing the Sacred to Cast Out the Profane: An Analysis of “Hell Fire” Lyrics in the Music of Bunji Garlin Fredara Hadley (Oberlin College) - Reimagining Black Church Spiritual Expression in the House that Jack Built 2.4. Analysing Groove (St4) Braxton D. Shelley (University of Chicago, USA) - ‘A Praise That Just Won’t Quit’: Constructing Meaning in Contemporary Gospel Music Jonathan Eato / Jez Wells (University of York, UK) - ‘Dakar’: articulating the tremendous Guilherme Schmidt Cȃmara (University of Oslo, Norway) - Rhythm 'out of place': Dirtiness, Deviation and Ambiguity in the structures of Funk grooves Guillaume Dupetit (University of Paris 8, France) - Getting into the groove: notes on the perception of time in Funk music 2.5. Anatomy of failure. Famous failures in the history of Brazilian popular music (H17) Luca Bacchini (University of Bologna, Italy) - Failure in 45 rpm. Chico Buarque de Hollanda and the Italian music market Thais Lima Nicodemo (UNICAMP) - From soul to samba: Ivan Lins in the first half the 1970s Marcio Giacomin Pinho (UNICAMP) - Comissão de Frente (Front Committee): Misadventures and prestige of a duo that raised the professionalism in MPB standard Walter Garcia (IEB-USP) - A música de Edu Lobo por Edu Lobo: a Case Study 2.6. In With the New? Online Music Industry Issues (M4) Guy Morrow, Denis Crowdy, Diane Hughes, Sarah Keith and Mark Evans (Macquarie University, Australia) Post-Fordism/Neo-Fordism in the Music Industries: Are Major Record Labels Devolving Risk Through a Neoliberal Restructuring? 5 Website: https://18iaspm.wordpress.com Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso (University of Tampere, Finland) - The Power Relations of Record Production in Finland and the Online Music Services: The Discourses of the Music Industries Conversation Group “Kuka Mitä Häh?” Kenny Barr (University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK) - ‘The Gift that Keeps Giving’: Music Copyright and Gift in the Digital Music Economy Koos Zwaan, Sabine de Lat and Sanne van Oort (Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Diemen, Netherlands) No Limits: The economic value of the Dutch online music industry 2.7. Structural Times in Popular Music (St1) Serge Lacasse (Université Laval, Québec, Canada) - Narrative Times in Popular Recorded Songs: Cantor, Order, Speed and Frequency Eve Klein (University of New England, Australia) - Convoluted Reverberations: Speculating on Realisms and Time- Based Audio Effects in Contemporary Sound Recording Practices Dennis Howard (The James Howard Foundation ) - Sound Recording and the Lunatic Fringe,