Do you listen to "Difficult" Music Fabiana Caso ? - Colleagues in the area, and of sound judgement, are certain to want to come to see the following seminar by Chris Atton (Professor of Media and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University). It is on Wednesday 2 October at 4pm in room 226 a/b, in the Lord Hope Building, University of Strathclyde, St James Road, Glasgow (across the path from the library). ‘Cultures of Listening: The Popular Aesthetics of ‘Difficult Music’’. Abstract: ‘Difficulty and complexity are values most often associated with a modernist avant-garde of ‘serious’ music. Their presence in popular music tends to attract the opprobrium of critics who seek to maintain a purity for popular music founded on values of authenticity, sincerity and directness of expression. In my presentation I will explore the critical discourse of audiences for difficult music in popular culture, such as avant-rock, Noise and free improvisation. I will show how and where audiences listen to and derive pleasure from music that sits on the intersection between the popular and the avant-garde. Rather than engage in arid exercises in intellectualism, which is how many critics might expect such audiences to behave, fans of the popular avant-garde encounter difficulty and complexity through a fertile variety of social situations, interpretations and aesthetic judgements’. Hope to see you there. Michael Dr Michael Higgins Senior Lecturer in English and Journalism University of Strathclyde School of Humanities Lord Hope Building 141 St James Road Glasgow G4 0LT Tel: +44(0)141 548 8320 Email:[email protected] Home Page:strath.ac.uk/humanities/courses/journalism/staff/higginsmichaeldr/
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