Performances of the popular
Summary
Dr Melissa Blanco Borelli
Performances of the Popular (POP) examines the full range of popular genres and the ways in which performance produces and shapes popular culture, including in fields of site-specific performance, screen studies , non-Western dance, theatre and film. POP Moves host a yearly symposium that starts usually in October.
Details
POP MOVES Symposium
In 2007, the Department of Dance Studies and the Department of Music and Sound Recording at the University of Surrey launched a symposium and speaker series, Popular Dance and Music Matters, which culminated in the preparation of an anthology that draws on research developed through these events. Building on this intellectual momentum, as scholars from the field of dance studies, we are pleased to announce a new collaborative research initiative POP MOVES.
Our aim is to invite scholars and practitioners to share their research interests in popular forms of expression through symposia, discussion forums and a speaker series. As dance scholars, although we have a commitment to embodied enunciations of the popular, we welcome research located in other disciplinary areas that addresses popular performance and its corporeal articulations.
For our first symposium, we are particularly interested in presentations that consider the following topic:
‘Performances of the Popular and Economies of Value’
• How are popular forms rooted in cultural value?
• How can we read the popular through a political economy approach?
• How does the popular act as a site of social capital?
Symposium Committee: Professor Theresa Buckland, Dr Melissa Blanco Borelli, Dr Sherril Dodds (Chair), Dr Mary Fogarty, Dr Joanna Hall, Dr Clare Parfitt.
Further information about the Symposium is now available on the CCSR website
Please direct any queries about the symposium to popmoves2011@gmail.com
Symposium 2010
Symposium 2011
2011 draft programme
