Conference Program
American Rock Journalism
International Conference, University of Siegen, 28 February to 1 March 2014
Friday, 28 February 2014, AR X 1.04
2.00 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Welcome Addresses and Introduction
2.30 -3.30 p.m. Plenary Lecture I
Richard Goldstein (Hunter College, New York, USA): The Birth of Rock Criticism: An Eyewitness Account
3.30 – 4.00 p.m. Coffee Break
4.00 p.m. – 6. p.m. Panel I
Authorship and Rock Journalism
Christian Werthschulte (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): The Dea(r)th of the author?
Nadja Geer (FU Berlin): “Super-High-Functioning Autistics:” The Autonomy and Agency of a Rock Critic
Ulf Schulenberg (Universität Siegen): “Teenagers Screamed Philosophy; Thugs Wrote Poetry“: Greil Marcus‘s Rock Journalism and the Notion of Transgression
6.30 p.m. – 8.00 p.m. Conference Dinner
8.30 p.m.-10.00 p.m. Film Screening A Band Called Death (2012) - Trailer
Saturday, 1 March 2014, AR X 1.04
10.00 – 11.30 a.m. Panel II
Authenticity and Rock Journalism
Konstantin Butz (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln): Bikinis, Zombies, and Wild Riders of Boards: Thrasher Magazine and Skateboard Journalism in the 1980s
Hans Frese (Universität Hamburg): Rise Above: Representations of 1980s Indie Culture and the Problem of Authenticity
11.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. Lunch Break
1.00 – 3.00 p.m. Panel III
American Literature, National Identity, and Rock Journalism
Billy J. Stratton (University of Denver, USA): Disappear Where? The Seduction of Punk in Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero and Penelope Spheeris’ The Decline of Western Civilization
Julian Weber (LMU München): What’s the “American” in American Music Journalism
Marcel Hartwig (Universität Siegen): “We Can always Empathize with Ourselves”: Pastiche, Parody, and Rock Journalism in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991)
3.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Coffee Break
3.30 – 4.30 p.m. Plenary Lecture II
Devon Powers (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA): The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism