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Comienza la primera Conferencia Internacional “Heavy Metal and Popular Culture” en Ohio!

Hola a todos!

Siguiendo la noticia publicada la semana pasada sobre la ISMMS, hoy tengo el gusto de anunciar una nueva iniciativa que llega de tierras norteamericanas.

Del 4 al 7 de Abril se celebrará en la Bowling Green State University de Ohio la primera Conferencia Internacional “Heavy Metal y Cultura Popular”. Durante cuatro días, estudiosos de todo el mundo se reunirán en este campus para pronunciar diversas conferencias sobre los más variados aspectos que unen el Heavy Metal (y el Metal Extremo) con la cultura popular.

La asistencia es gratuita y podéis visitar su sitio oficial AQUI. AQUÍ tenéis una entrevista con sus organizadores y AQUÍ, el programa completo.

Esperemos que algún día, su contenido sea accesible via web, revista o ebook.

Para aquellos interesados, aquí va su programa.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4

8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration

9:30 am – 10:00 am | BTSU 206
Conference Opening and Welcome
Jeremy Wallach – Bowling Green State University, USA

10:00 am – 11:30 am | BTSU 206
Keynote
Robert Walser – Case Western Reserve University, USA

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm | BTSU 206
Session 1: Rethinking Heavy Metal

  • Metal as Cultural Practice
    Pierre Hecker – University of Marburg, Germany
  • Progressivity: Reconsidering Heavy Metal
    Lars Norberg – The University of Agder, Norway
  • Heavy Metal as Resistance
    Niall Scott – University of Central Lancashire, UK
  • Humanizing the Machine: Technological Mediation and the Notions of Authenticity, Integrity and Liveness in Contemporary Metal Music
    Mark Mynett – University of Huddersfield, UK

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm | BTSU 206
Session 2: Crossing Over: Metal Transgressing Genre and Cultural Boundaries

  • Landscape and Mythology as Heavy Metal Fashion
    Mark Deeks – University of Leeds, UK
  • Beyond Black: Satanism, Medievalism, and the Dark Illumination of the Self in the Aesthetics of Norwegian and Transnational Black Metal
    Barbara Walter – St Louis College of Pharmacy, USA
  • Local Roots, International Audiences: Transcultural Appeal and Strategies in European Folk/Pagan Metal
    Lauren Welker – Independent Scholar, USA
  • Reactions to Crossover/Thrash Metal in Punk and Metal Scenes
    William Tsitos – Towson University, USA

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm | BTSU 206
Session 3: Metal Sounds

  • Drone Metal Recordings as Mystical Texts
    Owen Coggins – The Open University, UK
  • Electronic Distortion and Tonal Stability in Heavy Metal
    Spencer Neil Lambright – Middle Tennessee State University, USA
  • Becoming the Beast: Musical Expression in the Extreme Metal Voice
    Erid Smialek – McGill University, Canada
  • Bridging the Divide? Classical Music and Popular Culture in Symphonic Metal
    Kevin Ebert – Xavier University, USA

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Dinner

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm | BTSU 206
The Heavy Metal T-Shirt Project & Motörhead Matters
Presented and Moderated by Matt Donahue – Bowling Green State University, USA


FRIDAY, APRIL 5

8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration

8:00 am – 9:30 am | BTSU 228
Session 4: Race With the Devil: The Racial Politics of Heavy Metal, or Who Gets to Play (with) Heavy Metal Anyway?

  • Sister Outsiders? A Critical Meditation on Two Black Women’s Musicianship in U.S. Heavy Metal
    Mashadi Matabane – Emory University, USA
  • A League of Extraordinary Djentlemen?: Geekdom, Virtuosity and the Relative ‘Un-marking’ of Race in On-line Progressive-Metal Fandom Threads
    Andy Brown – Bath Spa University, UK
  • Edge of Insanity: Tony MacAlpine and Virtuosity as Transcendence
    Chair: Kevin Fellezs – Columbia University, USA

10:00 am – 11:30 am | BTSU 228
Session 5: Women and Gender in Heavy Metal

  • Are Women Metal Fans Groupies? The Impact of Dominant Representations of Women Rock and Metal Fans Upon Female Fans
    Rosemary Lucy Hill – University of York, UK
  • Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses: The Rise of Women in Black Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal and Grindcore
    Sarah Kitteringham – University of Calgary, Canada
  • Blasting Britney on the Way to Goatwhore: Listening Practices and Authenticity Among Female-Identified Fans of Death Metal in Piedmont North Carolina
    Jamie Patterson – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  • Metal Gaga: Appropriation, Post-Consumption and the Metal Aesthetic
    Christopher Smit – Calvin College, USA

11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Lunch

11:50 am – 12:45 pm | Meet outside BTSU 206
Special tour of the BGSU Sound Recordings Archives and the Browne Popular Culture Library

  • Susannah Cleveland and Bill Schurk from BGSU’s Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives
  • Nancy Down from BGSU’s Browne Popular Culture Library
  • Tour Guide: Matt Donahue – Bowling Green State University, USA

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm | BTSU 228
Session 6: Local Scenes and Sounds, Historically and Today

  • Headbanging in the Margins: A Case Study of 3 Underground Metal Venues in Leeds, UK
    Gabby Riches – University of Leeds, UK
  • Genre, Scene and Ritual in Cascadian Black Metal
    Anthony Thibodeau – Bowling Green State University, USA
  • “Marche ou crève”: Trust and the Singular Birth of French Heavy Metal in the Late ‘70s
    Gérôme Guibert – University of Paris, Sorbonne-Nouvelle, France

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm | BTSU 206
Roundtable: What Are the Origins and Meaning of Heavy Metal?
Moderated by Brian Hickam – Benedictine University, USA

Panelists

  • Deena Weinstein – DePaul University, USA
  • Steve Waksman – Smith College, USA
  • Rob Kimple – Owner of RamaLama Records, Toledo scene veteran, and concert promoter, USA
  • Martin Popoff – journalist, author of 41 metal books, former editor-in-chief and co-founder of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles magazine, Canada

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm | BTSU 206
Keynote: Metal After Metal Studies: What Comes Next?
Keith Kahn-Harris – Writer, Sociologist, UK


SATURDAY, APRIL 6

9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration

9:00 am – 5:00 pm | BTSU 201
Exhibit: “Beyond the Black: Masks and Facepaint through Genres, History & Cultures”

9:00 am – 10:30 am
Session 7: Global Dimensions

  • Bogan’s Heroes: Thrash Metal in the Public Eye
    Dave Snell – Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand
  • Musicians Should Never Turn into Servants of Politics: Metal, Politics and Pop Culture in post-Soviet South Caucasus
    Manuel Trummer – University of Regensberg, Germany
  • Fragile Hearts: Mainstreaming Metal in Madagascar
    Markus Verne – University of Bayreuth, Germany
  • The Scene of Chinese Heavy Metal after the Golden Age: From Painkiller to the Globe
    Yu Zheng – Bowling Green State University, USA

11:00 am – 12:30 pm | BTSU 206
Keynote: Race, Gender and Authenticity in Extreme Music
Laina Dawes – Journalist, Photographer, Writer, Canada

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm | BTSU 206
Roundtable: Heavy Metal and Community
Moderated by Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone – University of Central Missouri, USA

Panelists

  • Niall Scott – University of Central Lancashire, UK
  • Sarah Kitteringham – University of Calgary, Canada
  • Bryan Bardine – University of Dayton, USA
  • Esther Clinton – Bowling Green State University, USA
  • Additional panelists – TBA

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | BTSU 206
Session 8: Finnish Take on Metal Management and Consumption

  • In Somnium Exportata: A Finnish Story of International Metal Labor
    Chair: Toni-Matti Karjalainen – Aalto University School of Business, Finland
  • Leadership by Perkele? Managing a Creative Metal Music Venture
    Eeva Perttula – Aalto University School of Business, Finland
  • The Anatomy of a Metal Festival: Tuska in Hellsinki
    Anna Salo – Aalto University School of Business, Finland

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm | BTSU 206
Session 9: Heavy Metal and Culture in the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico: National Identities, Religion and Gender

  • On your knees and pray! The Role of Religion in the Development of a Metal Scene in the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico
    Chair: Nelson Varas-Dias – University of Puerto Rico and Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences
  • There’s a Girl in the Mosh Pit! Female Gender Practices in Puerto Rico’s Heavy Metal Scene
    Sigrid Mendoza – University of Puerto Rico and Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences
  • “Con la mancha de plátano”: The Role of National Identities in Puerto Rico’s Metal Scene
    Eliut Rivera-Segarra and Osvaldo González – University of Puerto Rico and Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences

7:15 pm – 7:45 pm | BTSU 206
Special Session: “Anarchy for Autism
Dan Spitz – guitarist, Red Lamb, former lead guitarist for Anthrax


SUNDAY, APRIL 7

11:00 am – 2:30 pm
Registration

11:00 am – 5:00 pm | BTSU 201
Exhibit: “Beyond the Black: Masks and Facepaint through Genres, History & Cultures”

11:00 am – 12:30 pm | BTSU 206
Session 10: Nostalgia and Kitsch: Metal Gets Sentimental

  • “…Another Thing Coming”: Nostalgia and Kitsch in Mass Cultural Manifestations of “Metal”
    Brad Klypchak – Texas A & M Commerce, USA
  • “Where is Def Leppard? Where is Mötley Crüe? Why Do All My Lyrics Sound Like Dr. Seuss?” Steel Panther and the Parodic Revival of Glam Metal
    Kristen Sollee – Independent Scholar, USA
  • The Emergence of Realist Metal Video on MTV, 1983-1985, or Metal in the Pre-Tawny Kitaen Era on MTV
    John McCombe – University of Dayton, USA
  • Sentimental Comedy and the Heavy Metal Documentary
    Gerd Bayer – University of Erlangen, Germany

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | BTSU 206
Roundtable: The Toledo Heavy Metal Scene
Moderated by Matt Donahue – Bowling Green State University, USA

Panelists

  • Todd Evans – Mobile Death Camp, Gwar
  • Andy Wendler – Necros, Gone in Sixty Seconds
  • Chuck Stohl – Damien, STOHL-N
  • Kevin Kekes – Damien, Chastain, Southern Gentlemen, Vainglory
  • Steve Szirotnyak – guitarist, enthusiast, collector
  • Matt Donahue – MAD 45, Head, The Great Barbeque Gods
  • Bill Getz – local metal enthusiast/historian
  • Additional panelists – TBA

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm | BTSU 206
Session 11: Comics, Sci-Fi and Superheroes: Metal Meets Fiction

  • Nordic Metal Avenger: Jon Mikl Thor’s Performances of Superhero Characters
    Florian Heesch – University of Music, Drama and Media, Germany
  • Metal and Comics: Strange Bedfellows?
    Colin McKinnon – Independent Scholar, Switzerland
  • Metalocalypse as Meta-Discourse
    David Roby – Texas A & M, USA
  • ‘Musicians from Mars’: Negotiating Music, Genre and Identity in Voivod’s Science Fictional Metal
    Laura Wiebe – McMaster University, Canada

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm | BTSU 206
Closing Remarks
Esther Clinton – Bowling Green State University, USA


OTHER EVENTS

Tuesday, April 2, other music film series presents Global Metal and Heavy Metal in Baghdad. Grounds for Thought coffee shop, Main Street, BG 7 pm.

Wednesday, April 3, Welcome reception for conference delegates. Time and location TBA.

Friday, April 5 at 8 pm, Book signing with Laina Dawes, author of What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal. Grounds for Thought coffee shop, Main Street, BG

Friday, April 5 at 9 pm, Concert: Matt Donahue’s MAD 45 (local Toledo/BG band). Grounds for Thought coffee shop, Main Street, BG

Friday and Saturday, April 5-6, Live music, TBA.

Saturday, April 6 at 9 p.m. Concert: RED LAMB (featuring Dan Spitz from ANTHRAX) with regional heavy metal acts Buried But Breathing, Demonshifter, In Hell & Fury, Nekrosis, Trust Me I’m a Doctor. Howard’s Club H, Main Street, BG

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