2016
Associated Event: Approaches to Popular Music Studies in Dublin and Beyond
Cregan Library
St Patrick's College, Dublin City University
Friday 10 June 2016
10:30am - 1pm
The Department of Music at St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University, in association with the Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI), the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), BIMM Dublin: the British and Irish Modern Music Institute, the Society of Music Education Ireland (SMEI), and the Popular Music and Popular Culture Research Cluster at the University of Limerick is delighted to host an interdisciplinary forum on Approaches to Popular Music Studies in Dublin and beyond. Uniting, for the first time in Dublin, scholars, educators, and practitioners working across the diverse fields of popular music studies, this roundtable discussion will address the academic study of contemporary popular music.
Invited forum guest speakers include:
Barbara Bradby (Independent Scholar)
Sara Cohen (University of Liverpool)
Aileen Dillane (Irish Academy of World Music & Dance, University of Limerick)
Mark Greaney (BIMM Dublin)
Liz Greene (Dublin City University)
J. Griffith Rollefson (University College Cork)
The forum is followed by the launch of the Mapping Popular Music in Dublin report, by Dr John O’Flynn & Dr Áine Mangaoang, funded by Fáilte Ireland.
When: 10.30am-1pm, Friday 10 June 2016
Where: Cregan Library, St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University
All Welcome. Questions and comments from the floor are warmly encouraged. Entrance to the forum is free but registration required.
To register, please email event organiser: Áine Mangaoang, aine.mangaoang@dcu.ie