Videos
Here are links to videos of the panel talks, keynote speeches and the concert in the Duncairn Arts Centre
Populism, Division and War
Fiorenzo Palermo: The Eternal-Fascist Protest of Zetazeroalfa
Aylin Demir: Live Music Events and Politics in Turkey
Ekaterina Ganskaya: Anti-war and Protest Songs in the times of Military Censorship in Russia After the 24th of February
Music in GDR
Ádám Ignácz: Hungarian Musicians at the Festival of Political Songs in East Berlin (in the 1970s and early 1980s)
David Robb: Gundermann: From socialist realist hero to eco warrior
Meredith Nicoll: The Bitterfelder Weg and the Path to Political Song in the GDR
Felix Morgenstern: Irish Rebel Songs in the GDR: Popular Culture and Anti-Imperialist Resistance
Keynote 1
Ian Peddie: Music, Rights, and Hope
Plenary: Northern Irish Song
Stan Erraught: 1972: The Year in Song
Matthew Tran-Adams: “Low-life scum” vs. “the embodiment of the modern Irish language?”: Kneecap’s Use of the Irish Language to Disrupt Oppression
Stephen Millar: Men Behind the Wire: Loyalist Prisoners and Songs of Resistance
Gordon Ramsey: “That’s A Loyalist Tune!” The Enaction Of Identity In Instrumental Music In Northern Ireland
Concert
Dave Robb: Live at Duncairn Arts Centre
Political Song in Portugal
Ricardo Andrade: It all depends on the bullet and the aim - José Mário Branco’s recording activity in exile and the song as an «efficient weapon»
Hugo Castro: You already know my goal: to liberate Portugal - Musical practices and political activities of Portuguese protest singers in exile
Manuel Deniz Silva: Translating the revolution: the international circulation of Fernando Lopes-Graça’s Heroic songs
Histories of Political Song
Conor Caldwell: The Races of Ballyhooley: Irish-Language Protest Song of the Nineteenth Century
Lucy Robinson: The Eighties in Green Time and Space: Glastonbury, CND and Greenpeace
Keynote 2
John Street and Oskar Cox Jensen: Our Subversive Voice: Protest songs as history, protest songs as politics
Music, Protest, and Public Representations
Thorsten Philipp: Don’t Give Up the Fight: HipHop as a Means of Sustainability Communication and Environmental Protest
Paroma Ghose: A Political Sound. France, South Korea, and the Politics of Nation and Representation in Contemporary Popular Music
Jelena Gligorijević: Cabin Porn – This is Brexit Britain? A Critical Cultural Analysis of Two Anti-Brexit Protest Songs
Music and Movements for Social Justice
Anna Swaray Williams: “If I Have a Son” and Other Songs of the Movement for Black Lives
Rebecca Pericleous: “Press Play for Justice”: The Black Protest Song Canon in the Era of BLM
Emmanuel Siaw: Protesting corruption: Assessing protest songs in the fight against corruption in Ghana
Keynote 3
Noriko Manabe: Intertextuality in Protest Music: Factors Impacting Production and Reception
Music as Aesthetic and Political Intervention
Daniella Fazio Vargas: Reshaping the aesthetics: exploring the political role of music
Chanda VanderHart: The Murder Ballad: Gender Violence, Gendered Interventions
Franco Fabbri: Stormy Six or Rock in Opposition
Global Pop and its Politics
Carolin Müller: Protest music or music for protest? Post-migrant adaptations of global pop music in contemporary rights-based protest in Germany
Uri Agnon: Finding the words: Found Text in Political Songs
Janne Rantala: Peace and Contemporary war in Mozambican RAP Performance
Religion in Popular Music
Elise Girard-Despraulex: Satanism in metal music, reflection on religion in Infestissunam (2013 - Ghost)
Stephen Wilson; “And though the line is cut / It ain’t quite the end”: Eschatological Fictions in the Protest Songs of Bob Dylan