Thursday, 12 April 2018 at 5:30 pm – Thursday, 12 April 2018 at 8:00 pm
A Hundred Years of Youth 1918-2018: Subcultures, popular music and social change
From youth as problem to rock ‘n’ roll and working class culture; and from the post-punk generation’s ‘crisis music’ to the social media infused spaces of contemporary young people - youth, subcultures and popular music have been intimately bound up with social change over the last century.
This symposium brings together a panel of four researchers from The Subcultures Network and Manchester Met's CELL alongside the Centre for Youth Studies. It will showcase how recent cross-disciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences has shed new light on the relationship of youth culture and popular music to social change.
The event will be followed by a drinks reception and a promotion of the Subcultures Network's new series for Palgrave Macmillan, ‘Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music’, featuring Dr David Wilkinson's Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain, Dr Sian Lincoln's Youth Culture and Private Space and Professor Keith Gildart's Images of England Through Popular Music: Class, Youth and Rock 'n' Roll, alongside Professor Melanie Tebbutt's Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain.
Schedule
5.30-7pm – (Business School, Room1.25) Speakers and Q+A
7pm-8pm – drinks and book promo
David Wilkinson is Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and has published widely on post-punk, politics, class, gender and sexuality as well as fanzine culture and theories of popular music and subculture. A member of the Subcultures Network, David has participated in the 2016 Punk London festival and has also worked with Manchester District Music Archive on their Queer Noise exhibition at the People’s History Museum and their online archive of City Fun fanzine. He is currently developing a research project on countercultural legacies. David is on the editorial board of Punk & Post-Punk and Key Words.
Sian Lincoln is Reader in Communication, Media & Youth Culture at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published widely on aspects of youth culture and the domestic sphere and her monograph Youth Culture and Private Space was published by Palgrave in 2012. Sian is currently working on a project with Brady Robards on Facebook Timelines and narratives of growing up, with a book, Growing up on Facebook, due for publication in 2019. She is co-editor of 2 book series: Cinema and Youth Cultures (Routledge) and Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures & Popular Music. Sian is on the management group of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Music, Subcultures and Social Change and is on the editorial board of Sociological Research Online.
Keith Gildart is Professor of Labour and Social History at the University of Wolverhampton. He has published widely on the coal industry, working-class politics, popular music and youth culture, including essays on the Kinks, Quadrophenia, and Georgie Fame. He is a founding member of the Subcultures Network and an editor of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music. He is currently leading a large AHRC project on coal communities in post-war Britain and completing a monograph on Northern Soul that will be published by Manchester University Press.
Professor Melanie Tebbutt heads youth history in the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies and is also a member of the History Research Centre. Her research focuses on the history of childhood and youth in the modern era and has a strong community-facing focus through involvement in collaborative engagement work with young people and local communities. Her most recent publications include Being Boys: Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years (Manchester University Press, 2012), Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), ‘From “Marriage Bureau” to “Points of View”. Changing patterns of advice in teenage magazines: Mirabelle, 1956-1977’ in A. Kidd and M. Tebbutt (eds.), People, Places and Identities (Manchester University Press, 2017), and ‘Listening to Youth? BBC Youth Broadcasts during the 1930s and the Second World War’, History Workshop Journal, issue 84, (Autumn 2017).