Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

2nd Global Conference

Friday 9th March – Sunday 11th March 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Friday 9th March 2012
From 12.30
Conference Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Jordan J. Copeland

14.00
Session 1: The City as Canvas: Creating and Co-opting Urban Art
Chair: Jordan J. Copeland

Crossing the “I Love You Bridge”: Gentrification and the Contemporary Picturesque
Samantha Bernstein

“Graffiti as Fearful Commodity”: Princess Hijab, the Muslim Woman, and the Anti-Advertisement
Mariam Esseghaier

Graffiti – Street Art – Urban Art: Terminological Problems and Generic Properties
Lilyana Radosevic

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Hip-Hop Cultures
Chair: Keith Rollin Eakins

Fresh MCs and Fly Girls: Lyrical and Sartorial Style in Hip Hop 1979-1989
Ericka Basile

The Real Czech Emcees Please Stand Up! The Construction of Authenticity in Czech Rap Music
Anna Oravcová

Beyond Vinyl and the Veneer of Cool: Finding Performance in the Milk Crate
Eitan D. Prince

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Saturday 10th March 2012
09.00
Session 3: The Virtual City
Chair: Daniel Riha

Berlin: a Hacker City?
Noel David Nicolaus

Evidence, Evocation and Public Memory in Rockstar Games’ Virtual Cityscapes
Jon Leon Tom

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Popcultures and Subcultures in Localized Music
Chair: Nadine Heymann

The Representation of 1990′s Rock Subculture in Turkey: The Case of Kaybedenler Kulübü
Özge Özdüzen

The Manifestations of National Identity in Popular Culture: The Construction of Latvian National Identity in the Communication Discourse of the Pop-Music Band Brainstorm
Liliāna Ozoliņa

Bosnian Artists in Prague of 1990´s
Daniel Riha

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Moving in and Passing Through: Urban Migration, Immigration, and Identity
Chair: Anna Oravcová

Russian Jews and “Gypsy Punks”: The Performance of Real and Imagined Cultural Identities Within a Transnational Migrant Group
Rebecca Jablonsky

Speaking of the Suburbs: Verlan and the Culture of the French Banlieue
Leonard R. Koos

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6: Pop-Politics: Rock, Radicals, and Activism
Chair: Chris Schadler

New Demand, New Music: Emergence of the Unattainable Themes in Popular Music in Iran: (1993-2008)
Forough Sajadi

Basque Radical Rock: The Rock of Stateless People
David de la Fuente Garcia

Indie Rock and Environmental Activism
Keith Rollin Eakins

Sunday 11th March 2012
09.00
Session 7: The Independent Ethos: Local Music and the Community
Chair: Mariam Esseghaier

‘Do-It-Yourself’: Grassroots Music-Making and the D.I.Y. Music Community in Glasgow, Scotland
Evangelos Chrysagis

Every Indie in its Place
Ewa Andersson and Katarina Giritli-Nygren

The Impact of Live Music Culture on Urban Quality of Life
Chris Schadler

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Music and the Mainstream
Chair: Ericka Basile

Club Tunes as the New Mainstream Tunes
Diah Nikmahayati

Localized MTV Television Channels in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia: A Case Study
Liliāna Ozoliņa

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Sexuality, Gender, and Subcultural Identity
Chair: Evangelos Chrysagis

Sexual Autonomy and Non-Monogamy in the Boston Anarchist Community
Sarah Bradley

Visual Kei: Representations of Gender and Body in a Translocal Subculture
Nadine Heymann

15.30
Development meeting and closing remarks

16.00
Conference Ends