El día 10 octubre de 2018 se inauguró el 1er Seminario de Estudios de Rock en Ecuador, es un proyecto colaborativo entre varias instituciones en donde la USFQ está representada por COCOA y Radio COCOA.
Se realizó una conferencia magistral de Eric Weisbard quien habló sobre cómo se ha estudiado el rock en EEUU.
Eric Weisbard is associate professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama and the co-editor of Journal of Popular Music Studies. A longtime music critic and editor turned academic, in the 1990s he was music editor of the Village Voice, a senior writer for Spin and editor of the Spin Alternative Record Guide (Vintage, 1995). He then worked at the museum Experience Music Project (now Museum of Pop Culture) in Seattle, where he curated exhibits, organized the annual Pop Conference from 2002 through 2018, and edited three books of conference presentations: This Is Pop (Harvard, 2003), Listen Again (Duke, 2007), and Pop When the World Falls Apart (Duke, 2012). He wrote a monograph on the Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion albums for the 33 and 1/3 series. His Ph.D., in American History, was received from University of California, Berkeley, in 2008, and the dissertation became Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music (Chicago, 2014), which won the Woody Guthrie prize for best book in popular music from IASPM-US in 2016. He is currently working on Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music.
lunes, 26 de noviembre de 2018
Conferencia estudios de rock and roll
El día 10 octubre de 2018 se inauguró el 1er Seminario de Estudios de Rock en Ecuador, es un proyecto colaborativo entre varias instituciones en donde la USFQ está representada por COCOA y Radio COCOA.
Se realizó una conferencia magistral de Eric Weisbard quien habló sobre cómo se ha estudiado el rock en EEUU.
Eric Weisbard is associate professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama and the co-editor of Journal of Popular Music Studies. A longtime music critic and editor turned academic, in the 1990s he was music editor of the Village Voice, a senior writer for Spin and editor of the Spin Alternative Record Guide (Vintage, 1995). He then worked at the museum Experience Music Project (now Museum of Pop Culture) in Seattle, where he curated exhibits, organized the annual Pop Conference from 2002 through 2018, and edited three books of conference presentations: This Is Pop (Harvard, 2003), Listen Again (Duke, 2007), and Pop When the World Falls Apart (Duke, 2012). He wrote a monograph on the Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion albums for the 33 and 1/3 series. His Ph.D., in American History, was received from University of California, Berkeley, in 2008, and the dissertation became Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music (Chicago, 2014), which won the Woody Guthrie prize for best book in popular music from IASPM-US in 2016. He is currently working on Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music.
