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Despite its status as an analogue sound carrier, the cassette has shown remarkable resilience in the digital era. Drawing on qualitative data gathered in three significant markets for cassettes, Japan, Australia and the USA, during 2018 and 2019, this article explores how the cassette tape’s material significance in the 21st century manifests itsel...
Posto isto, de seguida iremos apresentar os artigos, registos de pesquisa e recensões que, do nosso ponto de vista, materializam estas atmosferas sonoras e rítmicas. Assim, o primeiro artigo deste Volume 4, número 2, intitulado “Repensar a cultura DIY num contexto pós-industrial e global”, de Andy Bennett e Paula Guerra, assume um interesse particu...
KISMIF Conference (2014- ) is an international academic/cultural/artistic event based in the city of Porto (Portugal) and focused on discussing and sharing information about underground cultures, DIY practices, urban arts and other related topics. KISMIF focuses on cultural practices that are used to face more massive and uniform forms of cultural...
KISMIF Conference (2014- ) is an international academic/cultural/artistic event based in the city of Porto (Portugal) and focused on discussing and sharing information about underground cultures, DIY practices, urban arts and other related topics. KISMIF focuses on cultural practices that are used to face more massive and uniform forms of cultural...
COVID-19 has presented many challenges to the music industry and to artists who rely on live music not only as a source of revenue but also as an integral part of their release strategy and audience engagement. It is important to examine the modalities of artistic expression when faced with a new “socially distant” paradigm. This article describes...
EN: The article is a reflection on the legacy of cultural studies, and its contributions to contemporary social sciences. It is based on a conversation between the authors, with Dick Hebdige in the center, and revolves around the trajectory of this British professor, communicologist and semiologist, an outstanding student of Stuart Hall. It also re...
We are delighted to meet you all at the third KISMIF International Conference ‘Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!’ (KISMIF) International Conference, here at Porto, this year dedicated to the theme ‘DIY Cultures, Spaces and Places’. This initiative follows the great success of the two first KISMIF Conference editions (held in 2014 and 2015), seeking to...
In its third edition, KISMIF Conference 2016, on the theme of “DIY Cultures, Spaces and Places”, will be held in Porto, Portugal, between the 17th and the 21st July, 2016. Abstract submissions and conference presentations has open to researchers from all areas of sociology, anthropology, history, cultural economics, geography, urban planning, cultu...
The purpose of this special edition of Popular Music and Society is to bring together a series of articles from an international group of scholars who consider, in particular and locally specific ways, how popular music has become an object of memory and, in turn, a focus for contemporary renditions of history and cultural heritage. Popular music’s...
The material objects of popular music have featured significantly in studies of popular music. In particular, there are established literatures on physical playback media (including the re-emergence of vinyl albums) and playback devices, from the Walkman to the iPod. Recently, as popular music scholars have begun to explore the everyday use of musi...
The impact, influence, and legacy of the Sex Pistols have inspired a considerable number
of works, with those of Jon Savage being perhaps the most paradigmatic. However, these
studies are generally centered on Anglo perceptions of the Sex Pistols and of punk more
broadly. We believe that it is important to understand the Sex Pistols cultural and
ec...
This overview chapter provides an in-depth survey and analysis of key themes in the existing literature on youth cultural practice in relation to three key areas: style, space, and digital media. The chapter takes as its point of departure the notion that each of the aforementioned area connotes significant platforms from which youth can engage in...
The Festivalisation of Culture explores the links between various local and global cultures, communities, identities and lifestyle narratives as they are both constructed and experienced in the festival context. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from Australia and Europe, festivals are examined as sites for the performance and critique of lif...
In this article, we will examine the role and place of the street musician, their contribution to the urban soundscape and the ways in which this has been informed and (re)shaped by recent advances in music technology. Despite their global omnipresence, street musicians have seldom been the focus of contemporary scholarly research on music-making a...
The concept of scene is now a primary conceptual framework for studying the production and consumption of popular music. In a formative essay, Straw (1991) offered the important observation that scene could be theorized as both a local and trans-local phenomenon. Peterson and Bennett (2004) have added a new dimension to this conceptualization of mu...
This article develops the notion of ‘sound environment’ as a new way of theorizing the relationship between music, audiences and everyday life. The article draws on findings from an empirical case study conducted with young people between the ages of 21 and 32. In focusing on this age range, we consider ‘mundane’ music consumption practices in cont...
As the third largest city in Australia, Brisbane has a long and established history of independent and DIY music-making dating back to the early 1970s. Although generally regarded as a second-tier music city in Australia, several groups emerging from Brisbane have scored national and international success, notably The Saints and The Go-Betweens. In...
This article offers a critical examination of the concept of counterculture. Beginning with an overview and discussion of counterculture’s application in the context of the late 1960s, the article argues that many of the claims for the validity of counterculture in this socio-historical context reflect issues and shortcomings similar to those offer...
This article offers a critical examination of the concept of counterculture. Beginning with an overview and discussion of counterculture’s application in the context of the late 1960s, the article argues that many of the claims for the validity of counterculture in this socio-historical context reflect issues and shortcomings similar to those offer...
The cultural turn in sociology and related fields of study has brought with it new understandings of the various ways social identities are formed. In a post-structural landscape, social identities must increasingly be regarded as reflexively derived ‘performative assemblages’ that incorporate elements of the local vernacular and global popular cul...
Since the early 2000s, sociologists of youth have been engaged in a debate concerning the relevance of ‘subculture’ as a theoretical framework in the light of more recent postmodern-influenced interpretations of youth identities as fluid, dynamic and reflexively constructed. Utilizing ethnographic data collected on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Aus...
This article investigates and evaluates the key tenets of the post-subcultural turn as this has informed discussion and debate among youth culture researchers during the last 10 years. While the post-subcultural turn has produced a wealth of new analytical tools and conceptual approaches, as well as providing a basis for several anthologies, it has...
Rock and Roll became an important form of popular music, entering mainstream youth culture by white translators of black music such as Elvis Presley. Youth readily identified with the themes of Rock and Roll, such as rebelling against parents, having fun, and earlier themes of love and romance. Succeeding generations expressed the concerns of youth...
This article seeks to illustrate how ''rock'' music, as originally defined by an aesthetic dating back to the mid-1960s, is now being culturally and historically repositioned through the application of ''heritage rock'' discourses. Changing definitions of heritage in an era of cultural fragmentation give rise to new understandings and articulations...
This article examines the role of three community-based music projects—in Newcastle (Australia), Thanet (United Kingdom), and the City of Playford (Australia)—in engendering notions of regionalism, locality, and identity. Through their involvement in these projects, young people are placed at the intersection of music program management, city mytho...
This article provides a series of critical reflections on the development of sociological studies in relation to popular music and the development of a cultural sociology of popular music. The piece begins by mapping the origins of popular music as a focus for academic study and the indebtedness of this body of work to Centre for Contemporary Cultu...
This article addresses the continuing appeal of ageing rock icons, for example, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, for contemporary youth audiences. The article argues that much of the attraction of such artists for young audiences stems from the way in which they are used to position the development—and cultural resonance— of a late‐twentiet...
This article examines how older fans of punk rock articulate their continuing attachment to the music and its associated visual style.While sociological research on popular music audiences is well established, little attention has been paid to the articulation and management of fan practices of individuals beyond the age of 30. Based on ethnographi...
A collection of classic and contemporary essays organised by the themes of sound and text, music making, subcultures and scenes, popular music and everyday life, musical diasporas, music industry, technology, music media, gender and sexuality.
Culture and Everyday Life provides students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical models, issues and examples of contemporary cultural practice. Andy Bennett begins by summarising and situating - in everyday settings - the key theoretical models applied in the study of existing cultural practices. This entails a systematic study of how acade...
Following two decades of research on music and style-based youth cultures centred around narrative analysis, the 1990s saw a shift towards empirical work. This ‘ethnographic turn’ in youth and music research was in many ways a response to the predominantly theoretical accounts of previous work in which, as Stan Cohen (1987, p. iii) commented, ‘the...
In this chapter, I examine the cultural significance of rap music and hip hop culture for the youth of certain ethnic minority groups in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. I will consider how groups of youth associated with immigrant populations originating mainly from Turkey and parts of Northern Africa, in particular Morocco, have appropriated aspects o...
In this article I argue the need for critical evaluation of qualitative research methodology in sociological studies of the relationship between youth culture and popular music. As the article illustrates, there is currently an absence of critical debate concerning methodological issues in this field of sociological research. In the first part of t...
Clubbing: Dancing, Ecstasy and Vitality. By Ben Malbon. London: Routledge, 1999. 236 pp - - Volume 21 Issue 3 - Andy Bennett
The purpose of this article is twofold. First, to illustrate how recently developed technologies are giving rise to new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between music and place. Applying the concept of mythscapes, developed from Appadurai's work, to the 'Canterbury Sound', a term recently revived and adapted by a website-centred fanbase to...
This article offers an ethnographic account of the significance of rap music and hip hop culture for white youth in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in north-east England. Although white appropriations of black music in Britain have been well documented in sociological work, there is currently very little research on white responses to rap and hip h...
Despite the criticisms of subcultural theory as a framework for the sociological study of the relationship between youth, music, style and identity, the term 'subculture' continues to be widely used in such work. It is a central contention of this article that, as with subcultural theory, the concept of 'subculture' is unworkable as an objective an...
This article examines the way in which rap music and hip hop culture have been appropriated and reworked by the youth of Turkish and Moroccan communities in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. I begin by considering how, via the incorporation of German and Turkish lyrics into self-composed rap songs, Frankfurt rap groups have been able to turn the genre in...
New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives. By BackLes. UCL Press, 1996. - Volume 17 Issue 3 - Andy Bennett
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KISMIF CONFERENCE 2022
Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!
DIY Cultures, Sustainability and Artistic Ecosystems
13-16 July 2022
Summer School ‘Rebel with a Cause’
12 July 2022
Porto, Portugal + Online
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
From 27 December 2021 to 31 March 2022
Dates:
Warm Up: 12 July 2022
KISMIF Summer School 2022: 12 July 2022
KISMIF Conference 2022: 13-16 July 2022
Venues:
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto
Casa da Música
Casa Comum Universidade do Porto
TM Rivoli
Barracuda Clube de Roque
Plano B
Ferro Bar
KISMIF Convenors: Andy Bennett e Paula Guerra
KISMIF Scientific Committee: Amélia Polónia, Ana Oliveira, Andy Bennett, Anthony Fung, Asya Draganova, Augusto Santos Silva, Ben Green, Carles Feixa, Catherine Strong, Dick Hebdige, Fátima Vieira, George McKay, Gina Arnold, Guilherme Blanc, Heitor Alvelos, Ian Woodward, João Queirós, José Machado Pais, Júlio Dolbeth, Manuel Loff, Mark Percival, Matthew Worley, Mike Dines, Nick Crossley, Nuno Faria, Paul Hodkinson, Paula Abreu, Paula Guerra, Paula Cristina Pereira, Pauwke Berkers, Pedro Costa, Robin Kuchar, Ross Haenfler, Samantha Bennett, Sara Cohen, and Will Straw.
KISMIF Organising Committee: Ana Oliveira, Ana Rocha, Asya Draganova, Ben Green, Claire Hodson, Camille Girouard, Carlos Pinto, Catherine Strong, Devpriya Chakravarty, Elise Imray Papineau, Emília Simão, Esgar Acelerado, , Giacomo Botta, Gil Fesch, Hélder Ferreira, Henrique Grimaldi, João Queirós, Lisa Nikulinsky, Mary Fogarty, Matt Worley, Michael MacDonald, Paula Abreu, Paula Guerra, Paulo Nunes, Pedro Martins de Menezes, Pedro Quintela, Richard Frenneaux, Robin Kuchar, Samantha Bennett, Scott Regan, Sofia Sousa, Susana de Noronha, Susana Januário, Susana Serro, Tânia Moreira, and Thiago Pereira Alberto.
The KISMIF Conference offers a unique forum where participants can discuss and share information about underground cultures and DIY practices. KISMIF focuses on cultural practices that are often pitched against more mainstream, mass-produced and commodified forms of cultural production and mediation. Aligned with this is an anti-hegemonic ideology focused around aesthetic and lifestyle politics. KISMIF is the first, and so far only, conference in the world to examine the theory and practice of DIY cultures as an increasingly significant form of cultural practice in a global context. The conference has a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming contributions from the global community of scholars, artists, and activists working on all aspects of underground scenes and DIY cultures, and based on various methodologies — quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods analysis. The goal is to discuss not only music but also other artistic fields such as film and video, graffiti and street art, theatre and the performing arts, literature and poetry, radio, programming and editing, graphic design, illustration, cartoons and comic fiction.
Indeed, the role of music and DIY cultures is once more an important question – taking place in a world of piecemealed yet ever-present change. The space, spaces, places, borders, zones of DIY music scenes are critical variables in approaching contemporary cultures, their sounds, their practices (artistic, cultural, economic and social), their actors and their contexts. From a postcolonial and glocalized perspective, it is important to consider the changes in artistic and musical practices with an underground and/or oppositional nature in order to draw symbolic boundaries between their operating modalities and those of advanced capitalism. Territorialization and deterritorialization are indelible marks of the artistic and musical scenes in the present; they are related to immediate cosmopolitanisms, to conflicting diasporas, new power relations, gender and ethnicity. As in previous KISMIF Conferences, it is our intention to welcome reflexive contributions which consider the plurality that DIY cultural practices demonstrate in various cultural, artistic and creative fields and to move beyond music in considering artistic fields like film and video, graffiti and street art, the theater and the performing arts, literature and poetry, radio, programming and editing, graphic design, illustration, cartoon and comics, as well as others.
