POLITICS IN MUSIC and SONG 2023 PROGRAMME

All sessions will take place in the Music Building (access via University Square)

Note that we will be recording all sessions so please let us know if you do not wish your paper to be made available online after the conference.

Friday 8 September 2023

9.30 Registration and Coffee

10.00: Welcome Address - HARTY ROOM

10.30 -12.30: Parallel panels 1A/1B
PANEL 1A – Populism, Division and War – McMORDIE HALL
Chair: Stan Erraught
Fiorenzo Palermo
The Eternal-Fascist Protest of Zetazeroalfa
Aylin Demir
Live Music Events and Politics in Turkey
Ekaterina Ganskaya
Anti-war and Protest Songs in the times of Military Censorship in Russia After the 24th of February

PANEL 1B – Music in GDR – LECTURE ROOM
Chair: Ioannis Tsioulakis
Ádám Ignácz  
Hungarian Musicians at the Festival of Political Songs in East Berlin (in the 1970s and early 1980s)
David Robb
Gundermann: From socialist realist hero to eco warrior
Meredith Nicoll
The Bitterfelder Weg and the Path to Political Song in the GDR
Felix Morgenstern
Irish Rebel Songs in the GDR: Popular Culture and Anti-Imperialist Resistance

12.30- 13.30 Lunch

13.30- 15.00: KEYNOTE 1:           Ian Peddie – HARTY ROOM
                                                            Music, Rights, and Hope

15.00- 15.30 Coffee

15.30- 17.30: Plenary: Northern Irish Song – HARTY ROOM
Chair: Fiona Magowan
Stan Erraught
1972: The Year in Song
Matthew Tran-Adams
“Low-life scum” vs. “the embodiment of the modern Irish language?”: Kneecap’s Use of the Irish Language to Disrupt Oppression
Stephen Millar
Men Behind the Wire: Loyalist Prisoners and Songs of Resistance
Gordon Ramsey
“That’s A Loyalist Tune!” The Enaction Of Identity In Instrumental Music In Northern Ireland

 17.30 – 18.30: Wine Reception

 18.30: Bus to Duncairn followed by concert (19.30)
            The bus will leave from the security hut sited at the entrance on University Square

Saturday 9 September

9.00: Registration Desk

9.30-11.00: Parallel Panels 2A/2B
PANEL 2A        Political Song in Portugal – McMORDIE HALL
Chair: Pedro Rebello
Ricardo Andrade
It all depends on the bullet and the aim - José Mário Branco’s recording activity in exile and the song as an «efficient weapon»
Hugo Castro
You already know my goal: to liberate Portugal - Musical practices and political activities of Portuguese protest singers in exile
Manuel Deniz Silva
Translating the revolution: the international circulation of Fernando Lopes-Graça’s Heroic songs

PANEL 2B        Histories of Political Song – LECTURE ROOM
Chair: Sarah McCleave
Conor Caldwell
The Races of Ballyhooley: Irish-Language Protest Song of the Nineteenth Century
Lucia Agaibi
"Sisters, the poor and friendless need you" Ethel Smyth's Songs of Sunrise
Lucy Robinson
The Eighties in Green Time and Space: Glastonbury, CND and Greenpeace 

11.00-11.30: Coffee

11.30-13.00: Keynote 2: John Street and Oskar Cox Jensen – HARTY ROOM
                                                Our Subversive Voice: Protest songs as history, protest songs as politics

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-16.00: Panels 3A/3B
PANEL 3A        Music, Protest, and Public Representations – McMORDIE HALL
Chair: Zeynep Bulut
Yalda Yazdani
The Politics of Musical Participation: An Ethnographic Study of Women Singers in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Thorsten Philipp
Don’t Give Up the Fight: HipHop as a Means of Sustainability Communication and Environmental Protest
Paroma Ghose
A Political Sound. France, South Korea, and the Politics of Nation and Representation in Contemporary Popular Music
Jelena Gligorijević
Cabin Porn – This is Brexit Britain? A Critical Cultural Analysis of Two Anti-Brexit Protest Songs 

PANEL 3B        Music and Movements for Social Justice – LECTURE ROOM
Chair: Stephen Millar
Anna Swaray Williams
“If I Have a Son” and Other Songs of the Movement for Black Lives
Rebecca Pericleous
“Press Play for Justice”: The Black Protest Song Canon in the Era of BLM
Emmanuel Siaw
Protesting corruption: Assessing protest songs in the fight against corruption in Ghana 

16.00-16.30: Coffee

16.30-17.30: Keynote 3: Noriko Manabe – HARTY ROOM
                                          Intertextuality in Protest Music: Factors Impacting Production and Reception

18.30:                        Conference Dinner

Sunday 10 September

9.00: Registration desk

9.30-11.00: Panel 4
Music as Aesthetic and Political Intervention – McMORDIE HALL
Chair: Anna Swaray Williams
Daniella Fazio Vargas
Reshaping the aesthetics: exploring the political role of music
Chanda VanderHart
The Murder Ballad: Gender Violence, Gendered Interventions
Franco Fabbri
Stormy Six or Rock in Opposition

11.00-11.30: Coffee

11.30-13.00: Parallel Panels 5A/5B
PANEL 5A        Global Pop and its Politics – McMORDIE HALL
Chair: Oskar Cox Jensen
Carolin Müller
Protest music or music for protest? Post-migrant adaptations of global pop music in contemporary rights-based protest in Germany
Uri Agnon
Finding the words: Found Text in Political Songs 
Janne Rantala
Peace and Contemporary war in Mozambican RAP Performance   

PANEL 5B        Religion in Popular Music – LECTURE ROOM
Chair: Gordon Ramsey
Elise Girard-Despraulex
Satanism in metal music, reflection on religion in Infestissunam (2013 - Ghost)
Stephen Wilson
“And though the line is cut / It ain’t quite the end”: Eschatological Fictions in the Protest Songs of Bob Dylan

13.00-14.00: Closing remarks /Packed lunches / Goodbye – HARTY ROOM

Organising Committee: Dr David Robb  Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis

Contact email: pmas@qub.ac.uk