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By Dr M Duffett / Posted onOctober 2, 2017

After Chris Crocker’s Video: A Decade of Pop Fandom Online

It’s hard to think that it has been a decade since Chris Crocker became a YouTube sensation with his impassioned, if ambiguous defence of Britney Spears. He managed, to some extent, to capitalize on his own fame. While gathering material Continue Reading …

By Dr M Duffett / Posted onSeptember 15, 2017

When I Did Go Down To The Delta: Summer 2017 in Nashville, Clarksdale and Memphis

In 2014, I contributed a chapter to the edited volume Sites of Popular Music Heritage called ‘Why I Didn’t Go Down To The Delta.’ This summer I did the opposite and headed off to the South, primarily to put on a conference called New Perspectives Continue Reading …

By Dr M Duffett / Posted onMarch 3, 2017

New Perspectives On Elvis: A One-Day International Conference

21 August 2017, start time: 10.15amUniversity of Memphis 16 August 2017 will be the fortieth anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, one of the most popular and controversial music makers of the twentieth century. ‘New Perspectives on Elvis’ is Continue Reading …

By Dr M Duffett / Posted onSeptember 17, 2016

Beatleness: Interview with Candy Leonard – Part 2

Candy Leonard’s ambitious 2014 book Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World, combines a wealth of interview material with fans who were there in the 1960s and offers a portrait of the group and its fans in their era. Continue Reading …

By Dr M Duffett / Posted onSeptember 15, 2016

Beatleness: Interview with Candy Leonard – Part 1

Candy Leonard was born in the mid-1950s and, like many of her contemporaries, grew up fascinated with the Beatles. Her other interests, sociology, psychology, popular culture, and child development, prompted a career in which she has been a child and Continue Reading …

By Dr M Duffett / Posted onMay 20, 2016

Challenges of Participatory Culture conference, 12-13 May, Moscow, Russia

Last week, following a kind invitation from pop culture researchers Alexandra Kolesnikand Natalia Samutina, I visited the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow for a special interdisciplinary conference called Challenges of Participatory Culture: Methodologies and Perspectives of Research. Continue Reading …

By Dr M Duffett / Posted onFebruary 5, 2016

In Dylan Town: Interview with David Gaines (Part 2)

David Gaines completed a PhD on American writers in Paris called ‘The Sun Also Sets’ back in 1980. Since then he has lectured at The University of Texas at Austin and is now an Associate Professor of English at Southwestern Continue Reading …

By Dr M Duffett / Posted onJanuary 26, 2016

In Dylan Town: Interview with David Gaines (Part 1)

David Gaines completed a PhD on American writers in Paris called ‘The Sun Also Sets’ back in 1980. Since then he has lectured at The University of Texas at Austin and is now an Associate Professor of English at Southwestern Continue Reading …

By Dr M Duffett / Posted onNovember 13, 2015

An Affront to “Good Secularism”? Interview with Exaltation (2014) author Mark Jennings on Proto-Religiosity and Popular Music Fandom

Back in 2003 I argued that the tendency for middle class academics to make comparisons between Elvis fandom and religion reflected their elitist anxieties about a Southern icon’s emergent legitimacy. Both before and since then, new scholars working in sociology Continue Reading …

By Dr M Duffett / Posted onMay 27, 2015

/v/IRAL /v/IDEO /d/ISCO: Interview with Alan Hook

Alan Hook has degrees in both Fine Art and Creative Technologies. In recent years he has taught at the University of Ulster, where he is currently Course Director of the Interactive Media Arts program. I recently met Alan while working Continue Reading …

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