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Wednesday, 09 May 2007

Music, Philosophy and the Vernacular II

A symposium featuring speakers on Will Oldham! More than worth investigating if you live in the North East. Details are as follows:

Music, Philosophy and the Vernacular II

Day Symposium

Saturday 12th May

CETL Seminar Room, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University

10.00 John Mowitt, 'Facing the Radio'

11.30 Pete Dale, 'What is the Shape of an Event?'

12.00 Lunch

1.00 Lars Iyer & William Large, 'Ethics and Sincerity in the Music of
Will Oldham'

3.00 break

3.30 Thomas Wall, 'This'

4.30 roundtable involving all speakers and participants

5.30 End

John Mowitt is the author of several books, including *Percussion:
Drumming, Beating, Striking* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002).
Peter Dale is working on a Ph.D. on a comparative study of punk and folk
music at ICMUS. William Large is the author of *Emmanuel Levinas and
Maurice Blanchot: Ethics and the Ambiguity of Writing*, and Thomas Wall
of *Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot and Agamben*.

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