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This presentation took place as part of the conference Crosstown Traffic: Popular Music Theory and Practice, which was hosted by The University of Huddersfield from September 3 - 5 2018. This event combined the IASPM UK&Ireland Biennial Conference, the 13th Art of Record Production Conference (ARP), an ISMMS conference, and the additional participation of Dancecult.
A recurrent theme within popular music studies has been discussion of how the field can integrate different disciplines and professions, for example exploring both music and its context; involving both practitioners and researchers; and encouraging interdisciplinary and collaborative work. Many different issues make such approaches challenging, and various different popular music focused subject organisations have developed somewhat independently of one another. This conference brought four such groups together, to exchange knowledge, collaborate, and encourage crosstalk.
/// SUPPORT
Popular Music Studies Research Group (PMSRG), University of Huddersfield research.hud.ac.uk/pmsrg/#
Centre for Music, Culture and Identity (CMCI), University of Huddersfield
research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/cmci
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music UK and Ireland Branch (IASPM UK & Ireland)
iaspm.org.uk
Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production (ASARP)
artofrecordproduction.com
Dancecult Research Network (DRN) studies into electronic dance music culture
dancecult-research.net
International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS)
metalstudies.org
/// ORGANIZERS
IASPM UK&I: Rupert Till
ARP: Katia Isakoff, Shara Rambarran
ISMMS: Karl Spracklen
Dancecult: Graham St. John
University of Huddersfield: Jan Herbst, Austin Moore, Lisa Colton, Toby Martin, Catherine Haworth, Mark Mynett
/// CREDITS
This online project was edited, collated, and made available online by Chris McConnell, Jack Zissell, and Colin Frank.
/// PRESENTATION DETAILS
THANKS FOR THE MEMORY: celebrating ‘punk’ through interactive documentary practice
Professor Graham Roberts (co-director iRIS, Leeds Trinity University)
Tom Pollard (PhD candidate, Leeds Trinity University)
Stephen Hay (SMC, University of Leeds)
Joe Strummer Slept Here (2015): trinityvision.leedstrinity.ac.uk/JSSH/index.html#Home
Some 7s clash: irisleeds.wixsite.com/some7clash
/// ABSTRACT
In the week before Christmas 2015 Stephen Hay (Director) and Graham Roberts (Producer) presented Joe Strummer Slept Here to a crowd of clash fans at Duke’s Bar in Glasgow. The film deals with Glasgow School of Art student Gillian Farmer’s memories of her whirlwind experience during May 1985, when THE CLASH landed unannounced in her local pub then stayed in her flat as she helped set up and witnessed the very last gigs of the band’s legendary ‘busking tour’. The film has gone on to form part of an interactive documentary project exploring issues of memory and fandom.
In July 2017 Graham Roberts along with colleagues from the international Research Centre for Interactive Storytelling (including Tom Pollard) organised a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the ‘summer of Punk’ – Some 7s Clash . Amongst the performers were Steve Micalef (founder of ‘sniffin’ glue’) reading poems from ‘The Punk Kings of Dyslexia’ and Allister Gall of imperfect cinema fame, ‘events’ included a ‘zine workshop and a showing of Man with the Movie Camera (Vertov, USSR, 1929) with improvised collaborative soundtrack. This event is now the basis of its own i-doc.
This presentation seeks to contribute to the discussion of how the field can integrate different disciplines and professions. The projects presented and discussed explore both music and its context; involve practitioners and researchers (and practitioner-researchers) and are predicated upon interdisciplinary and collaborative work.
The presenters will also recount how the legacy of our two projects is continued in our annual Leeds Strummerjam 20/8/17 (tentatively entitled ‘Joe Strummer’s Bus Pass’) (As part of the global strummerjam www.strummerjam.com)
crosstowntraffic2018.wordpress.com
This presentation took place as part of the conference Crosstown Traffic: Popular Music Theory and Practice, which was hosted by The University of Huddersfield from September 3 - 5 2018. This event combined the IASPM UK&Ireland Biennial Conference, the 13th Art of Record Production Conference (ARP), an ISMMS conference, and the additional participation of Dancecult.
A recurrent theme within popular music studies has been discussion of how the field can integrate different disciplines and professions, for example exploring both music and its context; involving both practitioners and researchers; and encouraging interdisciplinary and collaborative work. Many different issues make such approaches challenging, and various different popular music focused subject organisations have developed somewhat independently of one another. This conference brought four such groups together, to exchange knowledge, collaborate, and encourage crosstalk.
/// SUPPORT
Popular Music Studies Research Group (PMSRG), University of Huddersfield research.hud.ac.uk/pmsrg/#
Centre for Music, Culture and Identity (CMCI), University of Huddersfield
research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/cmci
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music UK and Ireland Branch (IASPM UK & Ireland)
iaspm.org.uk
Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production (ASARP)
artofrecordproduction.com
Dancecult Research Network (DRN) studies into electronic dance music culture
dancecult-research.net
International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS)
metalstudies.org
/// ORGANIZERS
IASPM UK&I: Rupert Till
ARP: Katia Isakoff, Shara Rambarran
ISMMS: Karl Spracklen
Dancecult: Graham St. John
University of Huddersfield: Jan Herbst, Austin Moore, Lisa Colton, Toby Martin, Catherine Haworth, Mark Mynett
/// CREDITS
This online project was edited, collated, and made available online by Chris McConnell, Jack Zissell, and Colin Frank.
/// PRESENTATION DETAILS
THANKS FOR THE MEMORY: celebrating ‘punk’ through interactive documentary practice
Professor Graham Roberts (co-director iRIS, Leeds Trinity University)
Tom Pollard (PhD candidate, Leeds Trinity University)
Stephen Hay (SMC, University of Leeds)
Joe Strummer Slept Here (2015): trinityvision.leedstrinity.ac.uk/JSSH/index.html#Home
Some 7s clash: irisleeds.wixsite.com/some7clash
/// ABSTRACT
In the week before Christmas 2015 Stephen Hay (Director) and Graham Roberts (Producer) presented Joe Strummer Slept Here to a crowd of clash fans at Duke’s Bar in Glasgow. The film deals with Glasgow School of Art student Gillian Farmer’s memories of her whirlwind experience during May 1985, when THE CLASH landed unannounced in her local pub then stayed in her flat as she helped set up and witnessed the very last gigs of the band’s legendary ‘busking tour’. The film has gone on to form part of an interactive documentary project exploring issues of memory and fandom.
In July 2017 Graham Roberts along with colleagues from the international Research Centre for Interactive Storytelling (including Tom Pollard) organised a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the ‘summer of Punk’ – Some 7s Clash . Amongst the performers were Steve Micalef (founder of ‘sniffin’ glue’) reading poems from ‘The Punk Kings of Dyslexia’ and Allister Gall of imperfect cinema fame, ‘events’ included a ‘zine workshop and a showing of Man with the Movie Camera (Vertov, USSR, 1929) with improvised collaborative soundtrack. This event is now the basis of its own i-doc.
This presentation seeks to contribute to the discussion of how the field can integrate different disciplines and professions. The projects presented and discussed explore both music and its context; involve practitioners and researchers (and practitioner-researchers) and are predicated upon interdisciplinary and collaborative work.
The presenters will also recount how the legacy of our two projects is continued in our annual Leeds Strummerjam 20/8/17 (tentatively entitled ‘Joe Strummer’s Bus Pass’) (As part of the global strummerjam www.strummerjam.com)
