The Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University will present a graduate student conference, “Popular Music and Communities,” Oct. 2-3.
During the two-day conference, speakers will explore how popular music works to establish and complicate constructions of community.
The event will feature two keynote lectures:
- Norma Coates, associate professor at the University of Western Ontario
“Fantasies and Humpty-Dumpties: Teen Girls, the Monkees, and The Monkees”
Friday, Oct. 2, from 4 to 5 p.m.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Library and Archives - Mark Katz, the Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities and director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“‘We Need You to Get this Right’: Musical Communities and the Responsibilities of the Scholar”
Saturday, Oct. 3, from 4 to 5 p.m.
Harkness Chapel
All conference events are free and open to the public.
For a full schedule of events and specific lecture times, visit music.case.edu/centers-and-areas-of-study/cpms/.