Agenda
The Electric Guitar in Popular Culture Conference Conference Schedule
Bowling Green State University
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
9:00 am
Registration
Union Theater 206 Lounge
9:30 am - Conference Opening and Welcome
Mylander Room 207 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
9:50 am - Break
10:00 am - Keynote Address – Vulgar Display of Power: Six-String Milestones in the Creation of Heavy Metal Guitar
Union Theater 206
Martin Popoff (Journalist, Author, Co-Founder of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles Magazine)
10:50 am - Break
11:00 am - Panel #1 – The Electric Guitar in Popular Culture
Mylander Room 207
Elizabeth Sallinger (University of Kansas) – The Whole Town’s On Its Feet: The Electric Guitar and Jesus Christ Superstar
Rama Alapati (Andhra University, The Center for Popular Culture Studies) – Adaptation of Electric Guitar in Indian Cinema
Nancy Down (Bowling Green State University) and Alex Koch (Bowling Green State University) – Guitar Heroes: Depictions of the Electric Guitar and Rock Music in the Comics
12:20 pm - Lunch Break
2:00 pm - Special Presentation/Performance
Union Theater 206
Chris Buzzelli and the BGSU Electric Guitar Ensemble (Bowling Green State University School of Music)
2:50 pm - Break
3:00 pm - Stories from the Scaffolding of Rock and Roll
Union Theater 206
Special Guest Ken Haas (Reverend Guitars)
3:50 pm - Break
4:00 pm - Panel #2 – The Electric Guitar in Rock Subcultures
Mylander Room 207
Roger Landes (Texas Tech University School of Music) – “How Come You Have to Be So Loud?” Wildness, Danger, and Sonifications of the Other in Surf Guitar Performance Practice
Craig Dickman (Independent Scholar, Musician) – We’re Not Actually Musicians: The History and Evolution of Guitar Technique and Aesthetic in Punk Rock Music
5:20 pm - Break
5:30 pm - Panel #3 – The Instrumentality of the Electric Guitar
Mylander Room 207
Kevin Ebert (Xavier University) – But that Doesn’t Help Me on Guitar! (Unraveling the Myth of the Self-Taught Metal Guitarist)
Giacomo Fiore (University of San Francisco, San Francisco Conservatory of Music) – Sixty Years and Counting: The Electric Guitar as a Classical Concert Instrument
Kimi Karki (University of Turku) – Solid Guitar Autoethnography: Gibson SG as a Touring Companion
8:00 pm - Performances
Chuck Stohl and Friends and Matt Donahue (MAD 45)
Grounds for Thought
174 S. Main St.
Bowling Green, Ohio
10:00 pm - End of Conference Day One
SATURDAY, MARCH 28
9:00 am
Registration
Union Theater 206 Lounge
9:30 am - Panel #4 – Interpretations of the Electric Guitar in African Nations
Mylander Room 207
Ogunbowale Mopelolade O. (State University of New York, Buffalo) – The Electric Guitar in the Creation and Globalization of Nigerian Neo-traditional Music
Ian Eagleson (Independent Scholar) – The Electric Guitar in Kenyan Benga: Texture, Arrangement, and Rhythm
10:50 am - Break
11:00 am - Panel #5 – Icons of the Electric Guitar
Mylander Room 207
John Kimsey (DePaul University School for New Learning) – The Whammy Bar and the Wind Harp: Hendrix, Feedback, and Romanticism
Mike Daley (York University) – Lou Reed’s “Ostrich” Tuning as an Aesthetic Point of Articulation
12:20 pm - Lunch Break
1:30 pm - Panel #6 – Gender, Sexuality, and the Electric Guitar
Mylander Room 207
Joshua Hochman (University of California, San Diego) – Queering Guitar Noise, Reevaluating Punk Rock
Joanna Murphy (Bowling Green State University) – Women Who Rock: Women, Self-Presentation and the Electric Guitar
2:50 pm - Break
3:00 pm - Special Presentation/Performance - Kelly Richey
Union Theater 206
3:50 pm - Break
4:00 pm - Panel #7 – The Culture and Aesthetics of the Electric Guitar in Rock Music
Mylander Room 207
Philippe Gonin (University of Burgundy) – The Electric Guitar as a Sound Generator in Rock Music (1954-2014)
Ben Jameson (University of Southampton) – Rock Meets Spectralism: Cultural Associations of the Electric Guitar in Tristan Murail’s Vampyr!
5:20 pm - Break
5:30 pm - Keynote Address – Guitar Studies: Some Thoughts About a Field That Doesn't Really Exist (Yet)
Union Theater 206
Steve Waksman (Smith College)
6:20 pm - Closing Remarks
Union Theater 206
8:00 pm - Closing Performances - Little Axe (Skip McDonald) and Kimi Karki
Grounds for Thought
174 S. Main St.
Bowling Green, Ohio
Updated: 06/24/2019 08:50AM