'Music and Identity in Multi-Cultural Britain'

When?

Monday 22 March 2004, 17:00 to 18:30

Where?

19AD04

Open to:

Public, Staff, Students

Speaker:

Dr Andy Bennett

Dr Andy Bennett (Sociology, UNIS)

Department of Sociology, University of Surrey

Andy Bennett is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey. Prior to studying for his Ph.D. at Durham University he spent two years in Germany working as a music teacher with the Frankfurt Rockmobil project. He has published articles on aspects of youth culture, popular music and local identity in a number of journals including British Journal of Sociology, Sociology, Sociological Review, Media Culture and Society and Popular Music. He is author of Popular Music and Youth Culture: Music, Identity and Place (2000, Macmillan) and Cultures of Popular Music (2001, Open University Press) and co-editor of Guitar Cultures (2001, Berg). Andy is Chair of the UK and Ireland branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), co-convenor of the British Sociological Association Youth Study Group and a member of the Editorial Boards for the journals Leisure Studies and Sociology.