Program
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Featured Speakers
- Philip Auslander: Persona: The Social Dimensions of Musical Identity
- Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky: PornoPopEmPowerment
- Aisha Durham: The Politics of Masking: Strategic Class Performances by Black American Women in Popular Music Video
- Stanley Hawkins: Dandified Personas in Pop Music
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January 24, 2020 (Friday)
9:30-9:45 | Greeting of University President Prof. Dr. Stefan Leible |
9:45-10:30 | Featured Speaker |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
Methodologies | |
11:00-11:30 | Steffen Just: Putting the Persona in the Medium, or: The Persona as “Technico-Performativity” |
11:30-12:00 | Christofer Jost: Multimodal Rhetoric, or: What Pop Stars do. An Action-theoretical Approach to the Analysis of Pop Personae |
12:00-12:30 | Alicja Sulkowska: Performative Identity-Translation in the Intermedial Heterotopy of Korean Pop Music |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break |
Performances | |
14:00-14:30 | Lorenzo Santoro: The David Bowie’s first alias. “I felt like an actor”: Ziggy Stardust, and the performative approach to the quest of identity |
14:30-15:00 | Marija Grujic: Negotiating Pop Music History through Dance Persona: Madonna, Britney Spears and Lady Gaga |
15:00-15:30 | Patrick Grealey: Tracing sonic identity: hearing Rostam in ‘Half-Light’ |
15:30-16:00 | Pascal Rudolph: “Hey, don't I know you?”. The Performance of Pop Musicians in Film |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break |
16:30-17:15 | Featured Speaker |
17:15-18:00 | Film Showing & Talk |
January 25, 2020 (Saturday)
9:30-10:15 | Featured Speaker |
10:15-10:30 | Coffee Break |
Bodies | |
10:30-11:00 | Claudia Liebelt: Creating Pop Personae through Aesthetic Body Modification: the Case of Ajda ‘Süperstar’ Pekkan |
11:00-11:30 | Anna Benedikt: ‘We're limitless, we're not confined’ – Viktoria Modesta and the renegotiation of dis/ability in Pop Music |
11:30-11:45 | Coffee Break |
11:45-12:45 | Student Project Presentations |
12:45-14:00 | Lunch Break |
Transgressions | |
14:00-14:30 | Kai Arne Hansen: Reading Pop Personae: Outlining a Transmedial Approach for Studying the Multiple Construction of Artist Identities |
14:30-15:00 | Anne Kohl: "The Whole Package" – Star production non-stop. Constructions and Paradoxes of the Ideal Star Persona at Music Talent Shows |
15:00-15:30 | Katharina Rost: Dandies, Rockers and Younglings. Female pop musicians’ embodiments of familiar male-coded figures |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-16:45 | Featured Speaker |