Punk Scholars Network Fifth Annual Conference & Postgraduate Symposium
Doing Metal, Being Punk, Doing Punk, Being Metal: Hybridity, Crossover and Difference in Punk and Metal Subcultures
De Montfort University, 13-14th December 2018
Metal and punk cultures have long shared musical and cultural similarities. From Motörhead’s ubiquitous global presence to the complex amalgam of Thrash Metal, Doom Metal, American Hardcore, Straight Edge, Japanese-based Burning Spirits, Black Metal and DiY cultural production, one can see a plethora of hybridised and reinterpreted global music scenes. Keynote speakers: Rosemary Lucy Hill, Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave, Alastair Gordon and Amy Lawson, Roger Sabin, Pippa Lang. A parallel exhibition, Doing Metal, Being Punk, Doing Punk, Being Metal, was curated by Russ Bestley.
