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Semester 1, 2024

14 February, 5pm - reading discussion led by Gay Breyley on: Withers, Polly. “Digital Feminisms in Palestinian Hip Hop.” Global Hip Hop Studies 2, no. 2 (2021): 159–177.

12 March, 3:30pm - Guest author, Nicolò Palazzetti (Sapienza Università di Roma). To discuss “Opera Fandom in the Digital Age: A Case Study from the Teatro alla Scala.” The Opera Quarterly (2023): 1–25.

9 May - reading discussion led by Angus MacLaurin on: Fisher, Mark. “Ghosts Of My Life: Goldie, Japan, Tricky.” Ghosts Of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2014.

11 June - reading discussion led by Jack Melton on: Morris, Jeremy Wade, and Devon Powers. “Control, curation and musical experience in streaming music services." Creative Industries Journal 8, no. 2 (2015): 106–122.

Semester 2, 2024

10 July - reading discussion led by Tyra Baker on: Driver, Christopher, and Andy Bennett. “Music Scenes, Space and the Body.” Cultural Sociology 9, no. 1 (2015): 99–115.

14 August - reading discussion led by Mark Gibson on: Wark, McKenzie. “Rave as Practice.” Raving. Duke University Press, 2023: 1–10.

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Semester 2, 2023

18 October, 6pm AEDT, on Zoom (open to interstate and international attendance) - reading discussion led by Padraig Parkhurst on: Hurley, Andrew Wright. “No Fixed Address, but currently in East Berlin: The Australian bicentennial, Indigenous protest and the Festival of Political Song in 1988.” Perfect Beat 15, no. 2 (2014): 129–148.

20 September, 6pm AEST, in person (Naarm/Melbourne) - reading discussion led by Mark Gibson on: Tetzlaff, David. “Music for Meaning: Reading the Discourse of Authenticity in Rock.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 18, no. 1 (Winter 1994): 95–117.

23 August, 6pm AEST, on Zoom (open to interstate and international attendance) - reading discussion led by Luis Felipe Ferra on: Dunkel, Mario. “‘Jazz Embodies Human Rights’: The Politics of UNESCO’s International Jazz Day.” Forum for Inter-American Research 12, no. 2 (October 2019): 5–14.

26 July, 6pm AEST, in person (Naarm/Melbourne) - reading discussion led by Hannah Fairlamb on: de Boise, Sam. “Post-Bourdieusian Moments and Methods in Music Sociology: Toward a Critical, Practice-Based Approach.” Cultural Sociology 10, no. 2 (June 2016): 178–194.

Semester 1, 2023

25 Jan, 6pm AEDT, in person (Melbourne) – reading discussion led by Kate Pattison on: Korobkova, Ksenia A., & Black, Rebecca W. (2014). “Contrasting visions: Identity, literacy, and boundary work in a fan community,” in E-learning and Digital Media, 11(6): 619-632.

10 Feb, in person (Melbourne) – social catchup only. No reading, no agenda.

22 Feb, 6pm AEDT, on Zoom (open to interstate and international attendance) – Guest author, Emma Baulch (Monash University Malaysia). To discuss Chapter One “Establishing Class” from her book Genre Publics: Popular Music, Technologies, and Class in Indonesia (Wesleyan).

29 Mar, 6pm AEDT, in person (Naarm/Melbourne) – reading discussion led by Kristine Ringsager, visiting scholar at RMIT from University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Details of text forthcoming.

26 Apr, 6pm AEST, on Zoom (open to interstate and international attendance) – Guest authors, Adrian Renzo (Macquarie University) & Liz Giuffre (University of Technology Sydney). To discuss chapter “K - Kinda Girlie, Kinda Gay” from their 33 1/3 book Kylie Minogue’s Kylie (Bloomsbury).

31 May, 6pm AEST, in person (Naarm/Melbourne) – reading discussion led by Addy Arnot-Bradshaw on: Ferreira, Vitor Sérgio. (2016). “Aesthetics of Youth Scenes: From Arts of Resistance to Arts of Existence,” in YOUNG, 24(1): 66–81.