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SUMMARY:Beyond the Avant-Garde? Rethinking the Vanguard in British Music 
 since 1970
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DESCRIPTION:This one-day symposium looks at avant-garde music in the UK s
 ince 1970\, covering Bowie\, post-punk\, modernist composition\, electro
 nic dance music and more.\n\nThe 1970s is recognised as a decade of cult
 ural transition\, where music evolved into new configurations of establi
 shed and emerging forms. But despite recent scholarly interventions\, ma
 ny accounts of avant-garde music still hew to a traditional narrative in
  ignoring that evolution.\n\nThis symposium brings together different pe
 rspectives on how the history and historiography of ‘vanguard music’ in 
 the UK since 1970 can be traced\, documented and rethought. Scholars wor
 king on a range of different musics\, from pop to composition\, dance to
  underground\, will explore the dynamics of flux that have helped to sha
 pe post-1960s UK music culture.\n\nProf Georgina Born and Prof Benjamin 
 Piekut will lead a keynote discussion reflecting on how to reframe the l
 ast 50 years of vanguard music making.\n\nAttendance is free and open to
  all: register to attend at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the-av
 ant-garde-rethinking-the-vanguard-in-british-music-since-1970-tickets-15
 3808949709\n\nThe symposium is co-hosted by the Fringe and Underground M
 usic Group at Goldsmiths and States of Flux at the University of Manches
 ter.\n\nSCHEDULE\n\n*Session 1: Pop and Folk Avant-Gardes (10-11am)\n\n'
 From Blackstar to Berlin: David Bowie and the manifestation of late styl
 e in the Berlin Trilogy'. Dr Andrew Frayn\, Edinburgh Napier University\
 ; Dr Rachael Durkin\, Northumbria University\n\n'Forwards and Backwards:
  Locating the Vanguard of English Folk Music in the 1970s'. Dr Alexis Be
 nnett\, Goldsmiths.\n\n*Session 2: Vernacular and Popular Avant-Gardes (
 11am-12pm)\n\n'"Sit While You're Standing" – The Vernacular Avant Garde 
 and Unpopular Popular in Contemporary Scotland'. Keiran Curran\, Univers
 ity of Highlands and Islands.\n\n'Space\, Time and the Hardcore Continuu
 m: Recalibrating the Temporal Logic of the Popular Avant-Garde'. Maria P
 erevedentseva\, Goldsmiths.\n\n*Session 3: Radical Aesthetics\, Radical 
 Politics? (12-1.15pm)\n\n'Left Behind in the Twentieth Century: Avant-ga
 rde revivalism after the Situationist International'. Dr Christopher Haw
 orth\, University of Birmingham.\n\n'Popular Music and the Politics of N
 ovelty'. Pete Dale\, Manchester Metropolitan University.\n\n‘“It’s Okay 
 To Cry” – SOPHIE’s hyperreal avant-garde’. Christian Bielefeldt\, Univer
 sity of Basel. \n\n\nLunch (1.15-2pm)\n\n\n*Session 4: The Ghosts of Bri
 tish Modernism (2-3pm)\n\n'Early Music\, Medievalism\, and the Paradox o
 f British Modernism\, 1971-2012'. Alexander Kolassa\, The Open Universit
 y.\n\n'Trolling the avant-garde\, or the avant-garde as trolling? The ca
 se of the New “New Manchester “Manchester School””' School (NNMMSS). Dr 
 Edward Katrak Spencer\, University of Oxford.\n\n*Session 5: The Art-Sch
 ool Avant-Garde (3-4pm)\n\n'Electric Shock: Synth Pop and the Queering o
 f the Art School Avant-Garde'. Prof Gavin Butt\, Northumbria University\
 , Newcastle.\n\n'Off-kilter: How avant-garde elements were subsumed into
  the development of punk\, post-punk and new wave bands of the 1970s\, t
 hrough the influence of UK art schools'. Dr Simon Strange\, Bath Spa Uni
 versity.\n\n*Keynote session (4-5pm)\n\nProf Georgina Born and Prof Benj
 amin D. Piekut.\n\n
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