Parallel sessions

* PARALLEL SESSIONS 29-30 NOVEMBER *

updated November 28, 2012

IASPM Norden 2012 Conference
POPULAR MUSIC AND THE NORDIC REGION IN GLOBAL DYNAMICS

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Thursday 29 November 2012

12:45–14:15 Parallel sessions 1

a) ICELAND AND THE NORDIC REGION
ROOM: THE CINEMA

• Antti-Ville Kärjä (Finnish Jazz & Pop Archive)
  Metahistories of Nordic popular musics
• Nick Prior (University of Edinburgh)
  Why Reykjavik? Popular Music and Cultural Density
• Tony Mitchell (University of Technology, Sydney)
  A Transnational Bedroom Community in Reykjavík

b) TERRITORY
ROOM: 42.2.10 

• Marika Nordström (Umeå University)
  Narratives of place and authenticity
• Juho Kaitajärvi (University of Tampere)
  Forest Folk from New Weird Finland: The Birth of A Genre in the Popular Music Media
• Kimberly Cannady (University of Washington)
  Brokering Borealism in North Atlantic Popular Music

c) SCHLAGER AND POP
ROOM: 42.2.37 

• George Brock-Nannestad (independent researcher, Patent Tactics)
  Bror Kalle and brothers in arms – the Danish popular dance music repertoire on early records
• Johannes Brusila (Åbo Akademi University)
  Dansbandsmusik: Cultural imperialism, traditionalism and locality re-evaluated
• Henrik Smith Sivertsen (Royal Library, Copenhagen)
  Nephews latest album from early demos to final result – Documenting the musical composition processes in 2012

14:15 Break

14:30–16:00 Parallel sessions 2

a) HISTORIES
ROOM: THE CINEMA

• Alf Arvidsson (Umeå University)

        Making Popular Music Unpopular: The case of jazz in Sweden

• Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius (Gothenburg University) & Lars Kaijser (Stockholm University)
  From “progg” to ”psych/folk”: on the popular historiographies of Swedish 70’s progressive music
• Johanna Broman Åkesson (Stockholm University)
  The Age of Melody – Tradition and Modernity in Swedish Popular Music 1890-1970

b) SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES
ROOM: 42.2.10

• Jan Sverre Knudsen (Oslo University College)
  Popular music in coping with a national trauma
• Mikkel Vad (freelance researcher, Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
  Transnational Elegies: The Muhammad Drawings, Self-Censorship and Identity. The Case of Jomi Massage’s “Skandinaviske Klagesange”
• Anja Mølle Lindelof (Roskilde University)
  The politics of “Rhythmic Music” in the Nordic countries

c) METAL
ROOM: 42.2.37

• Cláudia Azevedo (UNIRIO)
  Reception of Norwegian Black Metal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – a report from field work
• Josh Green (Memorial University Newfoundland)
  Making Metal Faroese: Locating the Nation in a Transnational Genre
• Guo Xin (Shanghai Conservatory of Music)
  Nordic popular music in China

Friday 30 November 2012

9:30–11:00 Parallel sessions 3

a) INDIGENEITY AND COSMOSPOLITANISM
ROOM: THE CINEMA

• Thomas Hilder (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim)
  Sámi Popular Music and the Politics of Indigeneity: Self-Determination, Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Nordic Peninsula
• Terhi Skaniakos (University of Jyväskylä)
  Sonic Intimacy in Documentary Films on Sami People

• Jonah Chambers (University of Pennsylvania)
  Live Remix: Norway’s Punkt Festival, Regional-­‐Cosmopolitanism, and Breaching the Live/Mediated Divide

b) BUSINESS AND INSTITUTIONS
ROOM: 42.2.10

• Henri-Pierre Koubaka (musician)
  The conceptualization of African Popular Music in a Global Business: An Identity Crisis
• Hsin Wen Hsu (Academia Sinica)
  Identities, Practices, and the Contemporary Formation of Finnish Pelimanni Music in Its Era of Post-Institutionalization
• Maija Kontukoski (University of Tampere), Saijaleena Rantanen (Sibelius Academy) & Heikki Uimonen (University of Tampere)
  Live Music in Europe Network: Bringing Research and Music Business Together

c) RAP
ROOM: 42.2.37 

• Eirik Askerøi (University of Agder)
  Sonic markers of Scandinavian identity in “Svennebanan”
• Triin Vallaste (Brown University)
  "We can drink ourselves to death but I’m a guy with money and I will take that risk”: Hip-Hop, Reality TV, and Alcoholism in Estonia

14:30–17:00 Parallel sessions 4 

a) CARIBBEAN SOUNDS
ROOM: THE CINEMA 

• Kjetil Klette Bøhler (University of Oslo),
  Rethinking the Politics of Music – The Case of Salsa Cubana in Cuba 
• Tuomas Järvenpää (University of Eastern Finland)
  Ethnographic study into the religious discourse of Finnish reggae music
• Barıs Alpertan (Lund University & Bilkent University)
  Keops Pyramid: Socialist Influences on 70’s Swedish Alternative Music Movement

b) NORDIC IDENTITY
ROOM: 42.2.10 

• Ann Werner (Södertörn University)
  How Swedish is Spotify? A program for music consumption and its’ construction of nationality
• Hans T. Zeiner-Henriksen (University of Oslo)
  Music, motion, and emotion – in a Nordic climate
• Birgitte Sandve (University of Oslo)
  Unwrapping ’Norwegianness’: politics of identity in contemporary Norwegian-language rap music

c) MEDIATIONS
ROOM: 42.2.37

• Morten Michelsen (University of Copenhagen)
  Music on Interbellum Danish National Radio

• Kim Ramstedt (Åbo Akademi University)
  Recorded music performed live: Reggae sound systems as mediators of Jamaican dancehall music in Finland

• Rasmus Rex Pedersen (Roskilde University and Rhythmic Music Conservatory)
  Exploring Narratives of the Indie Rock Artist Subject: Auteur, Persona or Brand?