Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
07 January 2009 repeat 11 January
POPULAR MUSIC AND VIOLENCE David Gray, Eminen, ACDC, Bruce Springsteen, Christina Aguilera and Nancy Sinatra are artists whose music - despite their protests - have all been used by states as instruments of war. Laurie Taylor is joined by Dr Martin Cloonan, co-author of the Dark Side of the Tune and Caspar Melville, former lecturer in Popular Music Studies at Goldsmiths, to discuss how music is used in conflicts, and how it is increasingly employed by public utilities and commercial organisations in attempts to control what people do.
THE ETYMOLOGY OF ‘HOOLIGAN’ According to Professor Geoffrey Pearson the word "hooligan" made its official entrance into the English language during the summer of 1898, in the wake of a rowdy, August bank holiday celebration in London when hundreds of people appeared before the courts on charges of assault and drunkenness. Professor Pearson expands on the origins of the word ‘hooligan’.
Additional information:
Dr Martin Cloonan Senior Lecturer and Convener of Postgraduate Studies, Department of Music, University of Glasgow Department of Music, 14 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QH tel: 0141 330 4093
Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence by Bruce Johnson and Martin Cloonan Publisher: Ashgate ISBN-10: 0754658724 ISBN-13: 978-0754658726
Caspar Melville Editor of New Humanist and former lecturer in Popular Music Studies at Goldsmiths, London
Professor Geoffrey Pearson Professor of Criminology in the Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) at Goldsmiths University, London Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR), Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW - Tel: 020 7919 7390
Hooligan: A History of Respectable Fears Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-10: 0333234006 ISBN-13: 978-0333234006
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