Popularizing the Americas

Conference on Music, Media and Movies

Speakers at the conference include:

Professor George Sanchez (University of Southern California)

The Emerging Music of a Multiracial America

Dr Fernando Andacht (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Reality Shows in Brazil

Dr Ray Haberski (Marian College, Indianapolis)

It’s Only a Movie: The Paradox of Movie Power

Associate Professor Dale Carter (Aarhus University)

Songs of the Forgotten South: Van Dyke Parks and the Circum-Caribbean

Associate Professor Christen Kold Thomsen (University of Southern Denmark)

Minstrelsy and Signifying as explanatory Models for Black American Popular Music: the Case of Rythm 'n' Blues

Assistant Professor

Birgitte Madelung (Copenhagen Business School)

Popularizing the Nation: Cinematic Images and the National Mall

Senior Lecturer Jens Andermann (Birkbeck College, University of London)

From Testimony to Enigma: the Films of Lisandro Alonso.

Conference highlights include a performance by the nternationally acclaimed Chilean guitarist, el “Chicoria” – Juan Antonio Sanchez

Please register before 12 September