Popular Music Culture in Parkstad
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Overview of the development of pop culture in Parkstad, Limburg in The Netherlands from 50s to now, without the video's.
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- 1. KR!MPLEZING van femina tot en unitas sheltur: popular music in parkstad theo ploeg 01092011 vrijdag 2 september 11
- 2. five years ago there was no cultural spring vrijdag 2 september 11
- 3. ‘tales from the dowside’ (2007), Patrick Bisschops vrijdag 2 september 11
- 4. back in 2007... • highest youth unemployment in The Netherlands • no sense of purpose or place • third generation stil yerns for the past • or moves elsewhere to study or work • pop culture isn’t visible (underground) vrijdag 2 september 11
- 5. where did that come from? vrijdag 2 september 11
- 7. the mining industry vrijdag 2 september 11
- 8. the church vrijdag 2 september 11
- 9. marching bands vrijdag 2 september 11
- 10. Holland vrijdag 2 september 11
- 11. Detroit, 1960-70s vrijdag 2 september 11
- 12. MC5: white technology meets black masculinity vrijdag 2 september 11
- 13. “Rock and roll, the music holds the community together. The reason is simple: there isn’t anything else here.... Life in Detroit is profoundly anti-intellectual. Our institutions are industrial and businesslike, not cultural or intellectual.” Robert Duncan in Creem (1970) vrijdag 2 september 11
- 14. “The history of Detroit...is also a history of humiliations; it is a history of humiliation. What I mean by this is summed up in the famous dictum attributed to Henry Ford: ‘history is bunk’. Fordism was all about that: the creation of a material plentitude so vast that people would quit worrying about the past, and history would cease to matter. Detroit’s humiliation of history seemed an exhilarating idea, so long as the good times lasted, but when they ran out, it left both the city and the people in it painfully undefended and up for grabs.” Jerry Herron, Detroit Wayne University (1993) vrijdag 2 september 11
- 15. ‘tales from the dowside’ (2007), Patrick Bisschops vrijdag 2 september 11
- 16. in Detroit people had rock, in Oostelijke Mijnstreek they had nothing vrijdag 2 september 11
- 17. no past, no future, no rock and roll vrijdag 2 september 11
- 18. ‘Hello Josephine’, The Scorpions (1964) vrijdag 2 september 11
- 19. Salvatore Adamo (Schlager, the European soul music) vrijdag 2 september 11
- 20. (real) rock came with the AFCENT vrijdag 2 september 11
- 21. and AWACS vrijdag 2 september 11
- 22. AFCENT and pop culture • thousands of Canadians and Americans brought their pop culture to the region • like big cars, weird bikes and ghettoblasters • radio: CFNB (and BFBS) • music, albums, tapes, disco and hip hop • and.... vrijdag 2 september 11
- 23. “I was born in the Willemstraat. As a seventeen year old I saw someone smoke heroine in disco Shangri-La. I didn’t want it but it was easy to get. It was introduced by the American soldiers. Thirty years ago Heerlen was, in a way, metropolitain. More than Utrecht, where I moved to study.” writer Hans Dupont in newspaper Limburgs Dagblad vrijdag 2 september 11
- 24. Luxor, Hoensbroek (1979) vrijdag 2 september 11
- 25. Sheltur, Brunssum vrijdag 2 september 11
- 26. Femina, Heerlen vrijdag 2 september 11
- 27. Peppermill, Heerlen vrijdag 2 september 11
- 28. important places, but... vrijdag 2 september 11
- 29. lack of healthy music culture • fragile music scenes • mostly music consumption, not making • proud of bringing bands to the region, not of the own music scene • too small for national impact vrijdag 2 september 11
- 30. 1990s, 2000s: after pop culture vrijdag 2 september 11
- 31. 1990s • pop culture becomes mainstream, but in Oostelijke Mijnstreek it goes underground • there is no pop culture, only music vrijdag 2 september 11
- 32. Heerlen, the Dutch Seattle vrijdag 2 september 11
- 33. hardcore: Born From Pain vrijdag 2 september 11
- 34. hip hop: Het Verzet (True Villan) vrijdag 2 september 11
- 35. dubstep/drum’n’bass: Raadsel vrijdag 2 september 11
- 36. the have a lot in common... • ‘proud’ of ‘their’ roots and past • poorly educated • loud, raw, energetic, ‘old school’ • lack of connection with mainstream culture • ina way resisting the alternative mainstream vrijdag 2 september 11
- 37. ‘tales from the dowside’ (2007), Patrick Bisschops vrijdag 2 september 11
- 38. what vibrant alternative pop culture needs... vrijdag 2 september 11
- 39. a lot... • visibility • unity • (some) intellect • institutions •a future vrijdag 2 september 11
- 40. example? vrijdag 2 september 11
- 41. Incubate festival, Tilburg vrijdag 2 september 11
- 42. so? vrijdag 2 september 11
- 43. we have to connect • mainstream and underground • high and low • left and right vrijdag 2 september 11
- 44. and... • explore the past • to be able to (re)write the future • thus to become proud of the pop culture we have vrijdag 2 september 11
- 45. exploring the past? vrijdag 2 september 11
- 46. vrijdag 2 september 11
- 47. thanks for your attention vrijdag 2 september 11