Friday, 4 March 2016
9 AM-12PM: Graduate Student Conference: “Going Beyond Goethe: Teaching Germanic Pop-Culture(s) in the Foreign Language Classroom” - Burdine 337
German Studies Popular Music Workshop Burdine 214
2:30-3 PM Workshop Introduction by Sabine Hake and Alex Fulk
Session I
Moderator: Jim Buhler (UT-School of Music)
3-4 PM: Jens Papenburg (Humbold University Berlin):
“Kosmische Musik. Expanded Sensibilities of the Countercultural Subject, West-Germany 1970-1974”
4-5 PM: Martin Pfleiderer (Hochschule für Musik Weimar-Jena):
“'Wir werden immer lauter und wir hör'n nicht auf!' German Reggae and Dancehall in the 1990s and 2000s”
5-6 PM: Michael Ahlers (Leuphana University Lüneburg):
“Acoustic Capital in German Rap: A Case Study on Appropriation, Value Creation and Post-Digital Music Business”
Saturday, 5 March: ATT Center, ROOM 104
Session II
Moderator: David Crew (UT-History)
9-10 AM: Michael Schmidt (UT Austin):
“Textualization and Simultaneity in Jazz in East and West Germany, 1945-1955.”
10-11 AM: Sunka Simon (Swarthmore):
“’Licht aus - Spot an:’ How Schlager (ZDF 1969-1984) beat Disco (ZDF 1971-1982)”
11 AM-12 PM: Mirko Hall (Converse College):
“The Apoliteic Specter of Neofolk in Germany (A Critical Reassessment)”
12-1:30 PM: LUNCH BREAK
Session III
Moderator: Joshua Gunn (UT-School of Communication)
1:30-2:30 PM: John Littlejohn (Randolph-Macon):
“Wenn eine Band lange Zeit lebt: Puhdys, Politics, and Popularity”
2:30-3:30 PM: Seth Howes (University of Missouri):
“DIY im Eigenverlag: Punk Productions, Made in GDR”
3:30-4 PM: Coffee Break
4-5 PM: Cyrus Shahan (Colby College):
“The Birth of Autotune and the Loop of (West) German Identity ”
5-6 PM: Bastian Heinsohn (Bucknell University):
"Urban Beats: Graffiti Styles and Hip-Hop Beats in Recent German Visual Culture"
Sunday, 6 March: ATT Center, ROOM 104
Session IV
Moderator: Kit Belgum (UT—German)
9-10 AM: Peter Rehberg (UT Austin):
“Germany: Twelve Points! National Self-representation, Shame, and Queer Belonging at the Eurovision Song Contest”
10-11 AM: Maria Stehle (University of Tennessee):
“Joy and Trouble: Popfeminist Music as Political Action”
11AM -12 PM: Richard Langston (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill):
“Commitment and the Music Essay: On the Contemporary Relationship of Theory and Pop”
12PM-1 PM: Wrap-up with Alex Fulk and Sabine Hake
9 AM-12PM: Graduate Student Conference: “Going Beyond Goethe: Teaching Germanic Pop-Culture(s) in the Foreign Language Classroom” - Burdine 337
German Studies Popular Music Workshop Burdine 214
2:30-3 PM Workshop Introduction by Sabine Hake and Alex Fulk
Session I
Moderator: Jim Buhler (UT-School of Music)
3-4 PM: Jens Papenburg (Humbold University Berlin):
“Kosmische Musik. Expanded Sensibilities of the Countercultural Subject, West-Germany 1970-1974”
4-5 PM: Martin Pfleiderer (Hochschule für Musik Weimar-Jena):
“'Wir werden immer lauter und wir hör'n nicht auf!' German Reggae and Dancehall in the 1990s and 2000s”
5-6 PM: Michael Ahlers (Leuphana University Lüneburg):
“Acoustic Capital in German Rap: A Case Study on Appropriation, Value Creation and Post-Digital Music Business”
Saturday, 5 March: ATT Center, ROOM 104
Session II
Moderator: David Crew (UT-History)
9-10 AM: Michael Schmidt (UT Austin):
“Textualization and Simultaneity in Jazz in East and West Germany, 1945-1955.”
10-11 AM: Sunka Simon (Swarthmore):
“’Licht aus - Spot an:’ How Schlager (ZDF 1969-1984) beat Disco (ZDF 1971-1982)”
11 AM-12 PM: Mirko Hall (Converse College):
“The Apoliteic Specter of Neofolk in Germany (A Critical Reassessment)”
12-1:30 PM: LUNCH BREAK
Session III
Moderator: Joshua Gunn (UT-School of Communication)
1:30-2:30 PM: John Littlejohn (Randolph-Macon):
“Wenn eine Band lange Zeit lebt: Puhdys, Politics, and Popularity”
2:30-3:30 PM: Seth Howes (University of Missouri):
“DIY im Eigenverlag: Punk Productions, Made in GDR”
3:30-4 PM: Coffee Break
4-5 PM: Cyrus Shahan (Colby College):
“The Birth of Autotune and the Loop of (West) German Identity ”
5-6 PM: Bastian Heinsohn (Bucknell University):
"Urban Beats: Graffiti Styles and Hip-Hop Beats in Recent German Visual Culture"
Sunday, 6 March: ATT Center, ROOM 104
Session IV
Moderator: Kit Belgum (UT—German)
9-10 AM: Peter Rehberg (UT Austin):
“Germany: Twelve Points! National Self-representation, Shame, and Queer Belonging at the Eurovision Song Contest”
10-11 AM: Maria Stehle (University of Tennessee):
“Joy and Trouble: Popfeminist Music as Political Action”
11AM -12 PM: Richard Langston (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill):
“Commitment and the Music Essay: On the Contemporary Relationship of Theory and Pop”
12PM-1 PM: Wrap-up with Alex Fulk and Sabine Hake