Here is the finalised programme for the symposium. 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 2 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