Apr 9, 7-8:30PM
Level 2
The Garage
Free with RSVP
Join the AMS Lecture Series with Dan Dipiero as he explores the 1980s UK indie scene, where gendered dynamics often overshadowed indie-pop contributions, and see how its sounds continue to shape new generations, blending indie-pop with alt-rock in unexpected ways.
The American Musicological Society and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF) in Cleveland, Ohio, collaborate on a lecture series that brings scholarly work to a broader audience and showcases the musicological work of top scholars in the field. The AMS / Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Lectures provide a public forum that brings music research to a broader audience.
Dan Dipiero’s Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl uses a range of approaches to situate this new wave of indie music within a broader context, arguing that its diverse and multifaceted artists help cohere the emotional sensibilities and social orientations of a young generation flattened by an endless stream of everyday traumas.
In this talk, Dan contextualizes the approach to studying indie rock before outlining some core examples from the book. Jump back in time to discuss the original indie music scene in the UK of the 1980s, and how gendered dynamics obscured the contributions of indie pop at the time. Discover the lasting impact of this movement on younger generations, where indie-pop languages mix together with a harder, alt-rock sound associated in public consciousness with white/male pain.
Dan DiPiero is a musician, writer, and Assistant Professor of Music at Boston University. He is the author of the books Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl and Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life, as well as articles in places like Jazz & Culture, liquid blackness, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and the Cleveland Review of Books. Dan currently serves as the secretary of IASPM-US, writes a popular music studies newsletter called cry baby, and is at work on a project called Crush: The Sound of a Feeling. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, their principal drum teachers are Joe La Barbera, Bob Breithaupt, and Bill Ransom
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