Abstract
This Listening Session will be based on a playlist put together by members of the BCMCR Popular Music Research cluster to explore transgressive identities in relation to (disruptive) creative practices and innovations in music which connect with the significance of place, particularly Birmingham, as a geographical, symbolic, and social context for music cultures. The playlist will involve a range of styles; for example, it will reflect on Birmingham as the “home of metal” through acts like Black Sabbath, but it will also include content associated with the projects of researchers working in reggae, jazz, punk, and progressive pop and rock.
The Listening Session format has been developed as part of BA(Hons) Music Business’ extracurricular activities over the past six years. It includes listening to music – usually a whole album, but this time we will deviate and embrace the more inclusive playlist model – in a group, in full concentration, with no distractions, followed by discussion of the relationship of the music with the set theme, as well as its cultural, production, and economic values. Including such a session as part of the conference programme will contribute to the diversity of engaging alternative styles of presentation and discussion which the event seeks to encourage.
Within this Listening Session conference event, BCMCR members will be presenting short takes on how their chosen track reflects on the transgressive identities and subjectivities theme and the significance of Birmingham as a heritage and contemporary musical space. Along with the music selected by popular music cluster members, we will also be inviting conference participants to contribute to the playlist with the intention of turning this into one of the conference ‘extras’ – or its thematical soundtrack - with the potential for producing further outputs from it. We will include in the Listening Session and discussion on the day a small number of the wider conference participant playlist contributions on a random basis, in line with the tradition of our long-standing Listening Sessions with students.
The Listening Session format has been developed as part of BA(Hons) Music Business’ extracurricular activities over the past six years. It includes listening to music – usually a whole album, but this time we will deviate and embrace the more inclusive playlist model – in a group, in full concentration, with no distractions, followed by discussion of the relationship of the music with the set theme, as well as its cultural, production, and economic values. Including such a session as part of the conference programme will contribute to the diversity of engaging alternative styles of presentation and discussion which the event seeks to encourage.
Within this Listening Session conference event, BCMCR members will be presenting short takes on how their chosen track reflects on the transgressive identities and subjectivities theme and the significance of Birmingham as a heritage and contemporary musical space. Along with the music selected by popular music cluster members, we will also be inviting conference participants to contribute to the playlist with the intention of turning this into one of the conference ‘extras’ – or its thematical soundtrack - with the potential for producing further outputs from it. We will include in the Listening Session and discussion on the day a small number of the wider conference participant playlist contributions on a random basis, in line with the tradition of our long-standing Listening Sessions with students.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published (VoR) - 2025 |
| Event | “Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities” BCMCR Conference 17th-18th June 2025 - Birmingham, UK Duration: 17 Jun 2025 → … |
Conference
| Conference | “Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities” BCMCR Conference 17th-18th June 2025 |
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| Period | 17/06/25 → … |