The Cultural Production of 'Structures of Feeling' under Thatcherism
21 November 2014
1-5pm
Keynes Library, Room 114, 43 Gordon Square
Free entry; booking required
This working seminar will explore the mass 'democratization' of cultural production during the late 1970s and 1980s, from radical printshops and writers' workshops to film co-operatives and community art projects, all of which contributed to a lively, alternative, and oppositional, culture under Thatcherism.
The seminar will also draw upon Raymond Williams's concepts of 'structure of feeling' and 'alternative', 'oppositional' and 'emergent' cultures, as a means for recovering the 'lived experience' of others under Thatcherism. A range of 'grassroots' creative practices and cultural forms will be discussed (e.g. community radio, film and video, print ephemera, badges, arts, graphic design, music).
As a 'working seminar', it is designed to maximise participation in discussion to explore the connections between grassroots cultural production and the 'structure(s) of feeling' of people’s lived experiences under Thatcherism.
The idea for the seminar has been developed by visiting scholar Herbert Pimlott who is working with the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research in 2014-15.
Registration & coffee from 12.30pm
Facilitators: Herbert Pimlott (BISR Visiting Research Fellow) and Sophie Hope (Birkbeck)
Contributors include: Jim McGuigan, Jess Baines, Pat Holland, Anne Robinson and Patrizia diBello
Outline reading available: An introduction to Raymond Williams's concepts will be available prior to the seminar: e-mail hpimlott@wlu.ca.
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