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| General Information | Conference Highlights |
| Paper proposals have been invited from researchers working in any discipline for this one day seminar, in which ideas related to new wave – musical, cultural, political and aesthetic – will be investigated. What was new wave? What distinctive characteristics identified this moment? How did it relate to or disconnect from punk? Is new wave a coherent and useful critical category? Can the genre be defined? How important are non-musical elements to the category? Was new wave merely a marketing construct designed to obscure the ideologies and aggressions of punk? Was it just a journalistic device, media-created and media-promoted? What were the transatlantic meanings of new wave? Did they differ in the US and the UK? And what have been the legacies of new wave? Information about the conference hosts can be found here. Delegates should complete online booking from the "Bookings and Fees" panel on the right. |
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: Theodore Gracyk (Rhythm and Noise: An Aesthetics of Rock and Wanna Be Me: Rock Music and the Politics of Identity) from Minnesota State University, USA Leading British rock historian and biographer Clinton Heylin (From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History of a Post-Punk World and Babylon’s Burning: From Punk to Grunge) Jon King, Andy Gill and Hugo Burnham, three members of the seminal new wave band Gang of Four, a group formed at the University of Leeds in the late 1970s. |
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Online Booking Online booking is now closed. This event is fully booked. The conference fee is £30, with PG & UG student concessions set at £15. The fee includes entry to all sessions, refreshments on arrival and lunch on the day. Evening Meal |
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| Directions to University of Leeds | Conference Hosts |
| Rail: Leeds is well served with good rail links up and down the east coast main line and via the Transpennine Express. There is a free bus from the station which stops at the southern edge of the University (stop 9 is best). From stop 9 head round the multi-storey car park on the left and along the short road to the University campus' south entrance. For a map of the campus showing the south entrance and the School of Music (no. 75) please click here.
Road: Take the M62 to junction 27 or the M1 to junction 43, the M621. Exit the M621 at junction 2 and at the roundabout take the A643 towards the city centre. Get into the middle lane when it appears and follow it three-quarters of the way round the next roundabout, exiting towards the A58(M) Inner Ring Road. Exit the A58(M) up the sliproad just after the underpasses (signed towards the University), and turn left at the traffic lights. At the next lights turn right up the hill towards the imposing Parkinson Building, and turn left into the campus through the security barrier just after the two churches and before the pedestrian crossing. Paid parking is available on the University campus on the day of the conference. Air: Leeds/Bradford Airport is around seven miles from the University to the north of Leeds. |
School of Music From the University main entrance head through the security barrier and follow the road down the hill into the campus. Where the road bends left continue straight down the hill to the bottom. The School of Music is on the right here, attached to the gold-domed Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall. Department of Philosophy Popular Cultures Research Network The Leeds Popular Cultures Research Network is a gathering of academic staff and postgraduates at Leeds and elsewhere who have teaching and research interests in popular culture. The network is based in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC) of the Faculty of Arts, but its membership extends beyond Languages, beyond Arts disciplines generally, and indeed beyond Leeds. |
| Additional sponsorship by the British Society of Aesthetics and the Centre for Metaphysics and Mind. | |
