2007 TASA Public Lectures
TASA Annual Public Lecture 2007 is being presented by
Professor Andy Bennett
on the topic of
Growing old disgracefully? Popular music and the ageing fan
Hosted by Griffith University (Centre for Public Culture and Ideas),
the lecture is being held in
Ship Inn Function Room, Griffith University QCA Campus, South Bank (click for map)
on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 5.00pm-6.30pm.
TASA members are invited to join colleagues from the Griffith University and the TASA Executive for refreshments at:
6.30 - 7.30pm, Ship Inn Function Room, Griffith University QCA Campus, South Bank
Abstract:
The sociological study of popular music is now an established sub-discipline of the field. Significantly, however, in charting the cultural significance of popular music much sociological work continues to prioritise youth. In this public lecture, Andy Bennett draws on his recent ethnographic work with hippies, punks and dance music fans now in their forties and fifties as a means of both readdressing the dominant focus on youth and exploding popular stereotypes of ageing music fans as being driven primarily by nostalgia.
Utilising cultural sociological perspectives framed around issues of lifestyle, fragmented culture and reflexive modernity, Bennett examines how long term personal investment in a particular music style has influenced ageing fans’ lifestyles and shaped their biographies in relation to issues such as body image, employment, peer and family relations, and political and / or spiritual outlook. Bennett will then go on to consider the implications of his research findings for broader debates centring around issues of ageing and cultural participation in the context of late modernity.
Brief Biography of Presenter:
Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology at Griffith University and Deputy Director of the University’s Centre for Public Culture and Ideas. He is author of Popular Music and Youth Culture: Music, Identity and Place (2000), Cultures of Popular Music (2001), Culture and Everyday Life (2005) and Growing Old Disgracefully? Popular Music Fandom and Ageing (forthcoming). He is a Faculty Associate of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, an Associate of PopuLUs, the Centre for the Study of the World’s Popular Musics at Leeds University, and a member of the Board for the European Sociological Association Network for the Sociology of the Arts. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals Cultural Sociology, Leisure Studies, Perfect Beat and Music and Arts in Action .
RSVP September 17 to j.jones@griffith.edu.au or phone Jill Jones on 07 3735 7338.
The 2007 TASA AGM will be held in The Ship Inn Function Room , Griffith University QCA Campus, South Bank, Brisbane from 3.00pm-4.30pm Tuesday 25 September. More information is available for members click here.
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