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Music has always had an important presence in cross-cultural encounters around the Atlantic rim (including the Americas, Africa and the Caribbean), both on board ships and in sailortowns. The Atlantic Sounds Research Network is exploring these themes in historical and musicological context.
1st Colloquium: Friday 8th February 2013 at The Open University in London, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town,
London NW1 8NP
10:30 Coffee and Welcome;
11:00 David Cashman (Australian Institute of Music, Sydney)
Brass Bands, Icebergs and Jazz: The First Fifty Years of Music on Passenger Ships (1889-1939);
12:00 Stan Rijven (Music critic)
Slowbalization and the 6th continent, a Dutch perspective;
12:45 LUNCH;
1:45 Mike Brocken (Liverpool Hope University)
The mono-historical myth of Liverpool’s Cunard Yanks;
2:30 Gerry Smyth (Liverpool John Moores University)
Across the Western Ocean: Songs of Liverpool and the Sea;
3:15 George Burrows (University of Portsmouth)
‘Anything Goes’ on an Ocean Liner: Musical Theatre as Dialogic Heterotopia
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