Music Matters XXXII (20/09/2022) “A Discussion with Shortparis”
The first Music Matters event of the 2022/2023 lecture series is a special talk in collaboration with VERA Groningen with Russian group Shortparis. This event will takes place on Thursday 22 September 2022, from 15:00 to 16:00 in VERA Groningen (Oosterstraat 44, 9711NV Groningen), ahead of the group’s performance at the venue that evening.
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Past events 2021/2022:
Music Matters XXXI (11/05/2022) “The Soundtrack to My Life, but I Can No Longer Listen to It: Insights into Music Fandom Across the Life Course”
This talk was the fifth Music Matters event of the 2021/2022 lecture series, featuring dr. Simone Driessen. This event took place on May 11th 2022, from 16:00 to 17:30 (CEST).
For details, click here
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Music Matters XXX (07/05/2022) “Music Collectives and Community Activism: A Discussion with Crack Cloud”
The fourth (and first physical) Music Matters event of the 2021/2022 lecture series was a special talk with Canadian post-punk group Crack Cloud on music collectives and community activism. This event took place on Saturday May 7th 2022, from 15:00 to 16:00 in VERA Groningen (Oosterstraat 44, 9711NV Groningen), ahead of the group’s performance at the venue that evening.
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Spot On! x Music Matters (10/12/2021) “Who Tells Your Story? Musical Theatre in the UK and the Netherlands”
On December 10th 2021, the Department of Arts, Culture and Mediahosted a collaborative event by the music and theater departments for a special Spot On! & Music Matters lecture. For this talk (Friday December 10th 2021, 13:00-15:00 CEST) we invited the newly appointed Special Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Amsterdam (Joop van den Ende Chair): dr. Millie Taylor.
For details, visit this link.
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Music Matters XXIX (09/12/2021) “F*** tha police! á la russe: Rancière and the metamodernist turn in contemporary Russian music”
The third Music Matters event of the 2021/2022 lecture series involved Elizaveta Gaufman and Anatoly Reshetnikov. This event took place on December 9th 2021, from 16:00 to 17:30 (CEST).
For details, click here.
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Music Matters XXVIII (25/11/2021) “Speaking, Cheering and Eating: Sonic Transitions in Performative Sound Art”
This second (online) event in the 2021/2022 Music Matters lecture series took place on November 25th 2021 from 16:00 until 17:30 (CEST) and involved composer, sound artist and sound researcher Cathy van Eck.
For details, click here.
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Music Matters XXVII (29/09/2021) “Voice and Technology, Voice as Technology”
The first (online) event in the 2021/2022 Music Matters lecture series took place on Wednesday, September 29th 2021 from 17:00 until 18:45 (CEST) and involved Christine Duncan and Franziska Baumann.
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For earlier events, see the overview below.
Music Matters XXVI: “On Listening Positionality”
A Lecture & Discussion with Dr. Dylan Robinson
Wednesday, Apr. 28th 2021 17:00-19:00 (CEST)
Please Note: This event will take place online via Google Meets!
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Music Matters XXVI: “Twerking at the Intersection”
A Lecture & Discussion with Dr. Kyra Gaunt
Friday, May 14th 2021 16:00-17:00 (CEST)
Please Note: This event will take place online via Google Meets!
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Double Book Launch: Remixing European Jazz Culture by Kristin McGee & Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing by Chris Tonelli
Wednesday, Jan. 27th 2021 17:00-19:00 (UTC+1)
Please Note: This event will take place online via this Google Meets!
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“Hearing Feminist Interventions in Popular Music”
Time: 16:30 – 17:30
Location: Broerstraat 9, room A901
Free of admission – No registration required
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Music Matters XXV by Dr. Leonike Bolderman “Sharing Songs on Hiragata Square: Exploring the Popularity of Contemporary Music Tourism”
Friday 22nd February
Time: 16:00 – 18:00
Place: Free of admission – No registration required
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Tuesday 13th November
Place: Faculty of Law, Turftorenstraat 21 (entrance via Uurwerkersgang), Room T14
Free of admission – No registration required
Music Matter XXII Symposium and KIEM Workshop on “Gender Quotas in Music Festival Programmes
Friday 21st September
Time: 13:00 – 16:30
Place: Broerstraat 9, Room A901 (Archaeology Faculty)
Free of admission – No registration required
Music Matters XXI Symposium “Technology’s Disruption of Music Composition”
Friday June 15th
13:00 – 18:00
Faculty of Arts. Oude Boteringestraat 34. Room 002
Free of admission!
Registration via: a.l.a.arends@rug.nl
RESCHEDULED TO APRIL 24!
Music Matters XXI Lecture by Dr. Justin Williams (university of Bristol)
Tuesday April 24th 2018
16:00-17:00
Harmony Building (Onder de Bogen) / Room 13.14.0014
Free of admission – No registration required
Music Matters XX ec
ture by Dr. Katharina Rost (University of Bayreuth)
Friday March 23th 2018
16:00-17:00
Academy Buillding (Broerstraat 5, Room A900. Separate building)
Free of admission – No registration required
Music Matters XVIIII Lecture by Dr. Barbara Titus (University of Amsterdam)
Friday February 23th 2018
16:00-17:00
Harmony Building (Onder de Bogen) / Room 13.14.0014
Free of admission – No registration required
Music Matters XVIII & Workshop on Gender Dynamics in the Music Industry [Lecture by Dr. Robin James (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)]
Friday, June 23th, 2017 [14:00-18:00]
Academy Building, Heymanszaal / Broerstraat 5, Groningen
Music Matters XVII – Lecture by Dr. Oliver Seibt (University of Amsterdam)
Friday, May 12th, 2017 [16:00-17:30]
Harmony Building, Room 13.14.0014 (onder de bogen) / Oude Kijk in Het Jatstraat 26, Groningen
Music Matters XVI – Lecture by Dr. Koos Zwaan (Inholland University of Applied Sciences)
Friday, March 17th, 2017 [14:30-15:30]
Harmony Building, Room 13.14.0014 (onder de bogen) / Oude Kijk in Het Jatstraat 26, Groningen
Music Matters XV – Lecture by Gayle Young
Friday, February 17th, 2017 [14:30-15:30]
Harmony Building, Room 13.14.0014 (onder de bogen) / Oude Kijk in Het Jatstraat 26, Groningen
XIV Thursday June 9, 2016: The Shanty Choir
Speaker: Evert Bisschop Boele (Hanze University Groningen, Netherlands)
Time: 17:00-18:00
Place: Oude Boteringestraat 34, room 002.
Concert: Elizabeth Kooy + piano (www.elizabethkooy.nl) Introduction by Evert Bisschop Boele.
Time: 13:00-14:00
Place: Harmonie Cantine, upstairs behind the cafe
XIII Thursday May 19, 2016: Against the Grain: Protest Songs of an Irish Singer-Songwriter (Damien Dempsey – A Case Study)
Speaker: Aileen Dillane (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Time: 17:00-18:00
Place: Oude Boteringestraat 34, room 002.
Concert: The Freelancers (www.thefreelancers.nl) Irish and Scottish Folk
Time: 13:00 – 14:00
XII Thursday April 07, 2016: Learning From Bastard Pop? – Moving Beyond Subversion and Piracy in the Mashup Community
Speaker: Maarten Michielse (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Time: 17:00-18:00
Place: Oude Boteringestraat 34, room 002.
Concert: ESN Music Project
Time: 13:00-14:00
Place: Harmony building (upstairs behind the care on the first floor)
XII.5 Tuesday May 10th, 2016: Jewish Music and Its Others
Speaker: Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago, Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover)
Time: 17:00-18:00
Place: Oude Boteringestraat 34, room 002.
XI Thursday February 25, 2016: Eurovision, Media and European Culture
Speaker: Johan Fornäs (Södertörn University, Sweden)
Time: 17:00 – 18:00
Place: 1314.0014 (Harmony Building, ‘under the arches’)
Concert: Eurovision Song Jamboree (featuring Juliette Poulisse)
Time: 13:00 – 14:00
Place: harmony building, first floor behind the cafe
VIII Thursday April 10: Music Festivals Study Day IASPM Benelux
Keynote Speaker: Fabian Holt (Roksilde University)
13:00 (A12, Academy Building, RUG)
VIV Thursday May 7: “Kill the Hippies? Legacies of the Sixties in American Punk”
Speaker: Mike Foley (University of Groningen)
17:00 (Harmony Building, 1314.0014 ‘under the arches’)
X Thursday June 11: Swimming Against the Tide: Producing Musical Theatre in The Netherlands
Concert: Mariska Oostijen van der Kooi and Cas Straatman 13:00 (Marie Loke Hall)
Speakers: Bastiaan Roeters (Musical Theater Director) 14:00 (Marie Loke Hall)
Laura MacDonald (University of Portsmouth) 15:00 (Marie Loke Hall)