IPM 30th Anniversary Event
Posted on: 9 October 2018 in Posts
Dear IPM friends
It gives us great pleasure to invite you to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Popular Music on Thursday 1st November and Friday 2nd November 2018.
Founded in 1988 as the world’s first specialist centre for the study of popular music, the Institute of Popular Music (IPM) provides a hub for research on popular music, broadly defined, and is homed in the Department of Music at the University of Liverpool. The IPM has enjoyed a close relationship with Victoria Gallery and Museum, which looks after the Popular Music Archive, and with Popular Music, the leading journal in the international field of popular music research. Both the VG&M and Popular Music are supporting the celebrations with a reception and a chance to view a new exhibition using the IPM’s archives on Thursday 1st November. The following day, as part of an emerging partnership , we will be hosting a symposium at the British Music Experience museum, located on Liverpool’s historic dockside.
All the events are free to attend but numbers are limited, so registration and tickets are essential. Please book your tickets by following the links below. Please check out the details and join us if you can!
Best wishes from all of us at the IPM
Sara (IPM Director)
Thursday 1st November, 6pm - 8.30pm
Please join us for an evening celebrating the 30th anniversary of the IPM and the associated Play it Again, Use it Together exhibition that uses the important IPM archive in a new and innovative way. Guests will be treated to an evening of wine and music plus a private view of the exhibition.
This event is hosted by the Popular Music journal, the Victoria Gallery and Museum, and the Department of Music, and will take place at the Victoria Gallery and Museum at the University of Liverpool.
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Friday 2nd November, 10am – 5pm
Popular Music Pasts, Presents and Futures, 10am – 3pm
A symposium in the British Music Experience, which is centrally located in the prestigious Cunard Building at the Pier Head on the Liverpool Waterfront.
The symposium brings scholars and practitioners together to reflect on developments in popular music practice and research on three panels:
- ‘Yesterday’s Popular Music Stuff: Curating the Past for the Future’, a panel exploring the relevance of popular music materials for audiences in the digital age.
- ‘Tomorrow’s Popular Music Industries: Predicting Future Trends’, a panel examining the music industries in the digital era and efforts to predict future developments.
- ‘Back to the Future with Popular Music Research’, a panel that will review the achievements of popular music research and consider its future directions.
Participants include: Andy Bennett, Philip Tagg, Sarah Hill, Martin Cloonan, Dave Laing, Marion Leonard, David Horn, Andy Linehan, Catherine Tackley, Freya Jarman, Mike Jones
Numbers for this event are very limited, so please get in touch via email if you would like to attend
Popular Music Analysis 3pm – 5pm
A reception at the British Music Experience to launch The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches, edited by the IPM’s Kenneth Smith along with Ciro Scotto and John Brackett.
This collection creates a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music by turning to developments in contemporary art music. Featuring contributions by an international range of established and emerging scholars in music theory and historical musicology, the book addresses the relationships between concert and popular music, from rock and pop to hip hop and rap, dance and electronica, and from the 1930s to present day. Among its contributors and editors are current and former staff and students affiliated to the Institute of Popular Music, and the launch event is hosted by the University’s Department of Music.
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