Enjoy a conference on music festivals as resonant, sometimes contested, sites of equity, activism, community-building, and envionmental stewardship. In parternship with the Department of History, you'll have the chance to learn from Queen's professors and professors from around the world on music festival histories and potential feautre, and on archiving and digital history.
Schedule
Welcome and Introduction (1 - 1:15 pm EDT)
- Eric Fillion, Queen's University (Canada)
- Ajay Heble, University of Guelph (Canada)
Festival and Freedom? Exploring Liberation and Utopia in Popular Music and Jazz Festivals (1:15 - 2:15 pm EDT)
- George McKay, University of East Anglia (U.K), draws on a range of popular music festival practices, from the countercultural free festival movement to commercial pop events and urban jazz festivals, to explore the claims and limits of utopian practice and liberatory potential across festival history.
Histories and Futures (2:30 - 3:45 pm EDT)
- Anaïs Fléchet, Université Paris-Saclay (France), discusses music, counterculture, and yybridization: Latin American music festivals in the 1960s and 1970s
- Steve Waksman, Smith College (U.S.A), will investigate negotiating between Art and commerce from Newport to Coachella.
- Katharine White, J & M Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (U.S.A), investigates East Germany’s Red Woodstock: Popular music between the ‘Carnivalesque’ and the everyday.
On Archiving and Digital History (4 - 4:30 pm EDT)
- Michael Kramer, State University of New York-Brockport (U.S.A), discusses region, race, expertise, and digitization at the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project.
Event Details
Cost
Free
