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Pop Culture Worlds: Pop Culture History
I did a presentation on the ‘revitalisation of pop music history through online spaces’ with a particular reference to NZ music at the International conference, Popular Music Worlds, Popular Music History in Liverpool in July 09.
Highlights for me: Rachel Devitt: American woman researching the music of burlesque and its influence on pop culture; and a guy in America who discovered women guitar designers who worked for Gibsons during the war. All the men went off to war and were replaced by women who crafted the guitars …but were ‘let go’ when the men came back….some innovation took place during that time and he is doing a whole oral history project with these women who are now in their eighties and nineties..Cool.
An Australian guy, Alex Lambert, did a cool presentation on rave worlds ‘The Online Post-Rave Commons: Peer production and the production of offline social spaces for the Australian Psytrance scene.
The illegality but beauty of mashups….a million different subjects…from style of composition to the true effect of Jimi Hendrix recording career versus his live performances….
formal papers will be published later this year. A selection of papers will be published from the conference later in the year.
There is also a local conference of the chapter coming up in Auckland in November.
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