Upcoming events 2023:
Music Matters XXXVII (26/04/2023): “Saying It Differently” with Philip Ciantar
The Music Matters at University of Groningen Performance and Lecture Series invites you to “Saying It Differently: Political Activism and Parody Songs in Malta” with Philip Ciantar (Department of Music Studies, School of Performing Arts, University of Malta). This 37th talk of the series takes place at the Heymanszaal in the RUG Academy Building from 17:00 until 18:30 on Wednesday April 26th, 2023.
Read more here.
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Music Matters XXXVIII (2/5/2023): On Being Touched by Boeremusiek with Willemien Froneman
The Music Matters at University of Groningen Performance and Lecture Series invites you to “On Being Touched by Boeremusiek: Listening as a Haptic Event” with dr. Willemien Froneman (Stellenbosch University, South Africa). This 38th talk of the series takes place at the room 1312.0018 in the RUG Harmony Building from 18:00 until 19:30 on Tuesday May 2nd, 2023. For further information on this talk, see the abstract below.
Read more here.
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Music Matters XXXIX (24/5/2023): A Discussion with Bo Ningen
Music Matters at RUG will continue their artist discussion series in partnership with VERA on May 24 with a public interview with Japanese noise rock group Bo Ningen.
This event takes place at VERA Groningen (Oosterstraat 44, 9711RT) on Wednesday May 24 from 14:30 until 15:30, ahead of Bo Ningen’s performance at the venue that evening.
Read more here.
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Past events 2021-2023:
Music Matters XXXVI (21/3/2023): ESNS Diversity and Inclusion Panel
The Music Matters at University of Groningen Performance and Lecture Series invites you to its 36th event, the ESNS Diversity and Inclusion Panel with Lisa Schoemaker (Eurosonic Noorderslag), Ilona Deuring (Eurosonic Noorderslag), Juan Carlos Méndez Álvarez (Utrecht University), Dan Pădure (University of Groningen). This discussion takes place at the RUG Harmony Building, room 1312.0012 from 17:00 until 18:30 on March 21st, 2023.
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Music Matters XXXV (08/12/2022): “We Are All Improvisers” with Raymond McDonald
The Music Matters at University of Groningen Performance and Lecture Series is proud to present Dr. Raymond Macdonald (University of Edinburgh), who will give the 35th Music Matters talk entitled “We Are All Improvisers: The Psychological Foundations of Musicality.” This talk takes place at the Heymanszaal in the RUG Academy Building from 17:00 until 18:30 on December 8th, 2022. All are welcome to attend.
Read more here.
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Music Matters XXXIV (02/12/2022): “Telling Alternative Stories” with Mimi Haddon
The Music Matters at University of Groningen Performance is proud to present Dr. Mimi Haddon (University of Sussex) who will give a talk entitled “Telling Alternative Stories: Women’s Knowledge Cultures of Music.” This talk takes place at the USVA Theatre (Munnekeholm 10) from 09:15 until 10:00. All are welcome to attend.
Read more here.
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A Music Matters Symposium on Queer Futurities (15-16/11/2022)
The Music Matters at University of Groningen Performance and Lecture series is proud to present a two day symposium on queer futurities, starting with a karaoke queer music history lecture at Dorothy’s drag bar on November 16th. On November 17th we continue in the academy building of the University of Groningen with a panel discussion on Janelle Monae and Queer Afrofuturisms in music with Dr. Dan Hassler-Forrest (Utrecht University) and Dr. Magdalena Fürnkranz (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna). All are welcome to attend.
Read more here.
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Music Matters XXXII (20/09/2022) “A Discussion with Shortparis”
The first Music Matters event of the 2022/2023 lecture series is a special talk in collaboration with VERA Groningen with Russian group Shortparis. This event will takes place on Thursday 22 September 2022, from 15:00 to 16:00 in VERA Groningen (Oosterstraat 44, 9711NV Groningen), ahead of the group’s performance at the venue that evening.
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Music Matters XXXI (11/05/2022) “The Soundtrack to My Life, but I Can No Longer Listen to It: Insights into Music Fandom Across the Life Course”
This talk was the fifth Music Matters event of the 2021/2022 lecture series, featuring dr. Simone Driessen. This event took place on May 11th 2022, from 16:00 to 17:30 (CEST).
For details, click here
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Music Matters XXX (07/05/2022) “Music Collectives and Community Activism: A Discussion with Crack Cloud”
The fourth (and first physical) Music Matters event of the 2021/2022 lecture series was a special talk with Canadian post-punk group Crack Cloud on music collectives and community activism. This event took place on Saturday May 7th 2022, from 15:00 to 16:00 in VERA Groningen (Oosterstraat 44, 9711NV Groningen), ahead of the group’s performance at the venue that evening.
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Spot On! x Music Matters (10/12/2021) “Who Tells Your Story? Musical Theatre in the UK and the Netherlands”
On December 10th 2021, the Department of Arts, Culture and Mediahosted a collaborative event by the music and theater departments for a special Spot On! & Music Matters lecture. For this talk (Friday December 10th 2021, 13:00-15:00 CEST) we invited the newly appointed Special Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Amsterdam (Joop van den Ende Chair): dr. Millie Taylor.
For details, visit this link.
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Music Matters XXIX (09/12/2021) “F*** tha police! á la russe: Rancière and the metamodernist turn in contemporary Russian music”
The third Music Matters event of the 2021/2022 lecture series involved Elizaveta Gaufman and Anatoly Reshetnikov. This event took place on December 9th 2021, from 16:00 to 17:30 (CEST).
For details, click here.
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Music Matters XXVIII (25/11/2021) “Speaking, Cheering and Eating: Sonic Transitions in Performative Sound Art”
This second (online) event in the 2021/2022 Music Matters lecture series took place on November 25th 2021 from 16:00 until 17:30 (CEST) and involved composer, sound artist and sound researcher Cathy van Eck.
For details, click here.
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Music Matters XXVII (29/09/2021) “Voice and Technology, Voice as Technology”
The first (online) event in the 2021/2022 Music Matters lecture series took place on Wednesday, September 29th 2021 from 17:00 until 18:45 (CEST) and involved Christine Duncan and Franziska Baumann.
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For earlier events, see the overview below.
Music Matters XXVI: “On Listening Positionality”
A Lecture & Discussion with Dr. Dylan Robinson
Wednesday, Apr. 28th 2021 17:00-19:00 (CEST)
Please Note: This event will take place online via Google Meets!
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Music Matters XXVI: “Twerking at the Intersection”
A Lecture & Discussion with Dr. Kyra Gaunt
Friday, May 14th 2021 16:00-17:00 (CEST)
Please Note: This event will take place online via Google Meets!
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Double Book Launch: Remixing European Jazz Culture by Kristin McGee & Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing by Chris Tonelli
Wednesday, Jan. 27th 2021 17:00-19:00 (UTC+1)
Please Note: This event will take place online via this Google Meets!
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“Hearing Feminist Interventions in Popular Music”
Time: 16:30 – 17:30
Location: Broerstraat 9, room A901
Free of admission – No registration required
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Music Matters XXV by Dr. Leonike Bolderman “Sharing Songs on Hiragata Square: Exploring the Popularity of Contemporary Music Tourism”
Friday 22nd February
Time: 16:00 – 18:00
Place: Free of admission – No registration required
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Tuesday 13th November
Place: Faculty of Law, Turftorenstraat 21 (entrance via Uurwerkersgang), Room T14
Free of admission – No registration required
Music Matter XXII Symposium and KIEM Workshop on “Gender Quotas in Music Festival Programmes
Friday 21st September
Time: 13:00 – 16:30
Place: Broerstraat 9, Room A901 (Archaeology Faculty)
Free of admission – No registration required
Music Matters XXI Symposium “Technology’s Disruption of Music Composition”
Friday June 15th
13:00 – 18:00
Faculty of Arts. Oude Boteringestraat 34. Room 002
Free of admission!
Registration via: a.l.a.arends@rug.nl
RESCHEDULED TO APRIL 24!
Music Matters XXI Lecture by Dr. Justin Williams (university of Bristol)
Tuesday April 24th 2018
16:00-17:00
Harmony Building (Onder de Bogen) / Room 13.14.0014
Free of admission – No registration required
Music Matters XX ec
ture by Dr. Katharina Rost (University of Bayreuth)
Friday March 23th 2018
16:00-17:00
Academy Buillding (Broerstraat 5, Room A900. Separate building)
Free of admission – No registration required
Music Matters XVIIII Lecture by Dr. Barbara Titus (University of Amsterdam)
Friday February 23th 2018
16:00-17:00
Harmony Building (Onder de Bogen) / Room 13.14.0014
Free of admission – No registration required
Music Matters XVIII & Workshop on Gender Dynamics in the Music Industry [Lecture by Dr. Robin James (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)]
Friday, June 23th, 2017 [14:00-18:00]
Academy Building, Heymanszaal / Broerstraat 5, Groningen
Music Matters XVII – Lecture by Dr. Oliver Seibt (University of Amsterdam)
Friday, May 12th, 2017 [16:00-17:30]
Harmony Building, Room 13.14.0014 (onder de bogen) / Oude Kijk in Het Jatstraat 26, Groningen
Music Matters XVI – Lecture by Dr. Koos Zwaan (Inholland University of Applied Sciences)
Friday, March 17th, 2017 [14:30-15:30]
Harmony Building, Room 13.14.0014 (onder de bogen) / Oude Kijk in Het Jatstraat 26, Groningen
Music Matters XV – Lecture by Gayle Young
Friday, February 17th, 2017 [14:30-15:30]
Harmony Building, Room 13.14.0014 (onder de bogen) / Oude Kijk in Het Jatstraat 26, Groningen
XIV Thursday June 9, 2016: The Shanty Choir
Speaker: Evert Bisschop Boele (Hanze University Groningen, Netherlands)
Time: 17:00-18:00
Place: Oude Boteringestraat 34, room 002.
Concert: Elizabeth Kooy + piano (www.elizabethkooy.nl) Introduction by Evert Bisschop Boele.
Time: 13:00-14:00
Place: Harmonie Cantine, upstairs behind the cafe
XIII Thursday May 19, 2016: Against the Grain: Protest Songs of an Irish Singer-Songwriter (Damien Dempsey – A Case Study)
Speaker: Aileen Dillane (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Time: 17:00-18:00
Place: Oude Boteringestraat 34, room 002.
Concert: The Freelancers (www.thefreelancers.nl) Irish and Scottish Folk
Time: 13:00 – 14:00
XII Thursday April 07, 2016: Learning From Bastard Pop? – Moving Beyond Subversion and Piracy in the Mashup Community
Speaker: Maarten Michielse (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Time: 17:00-18:00
Place: Oude Boteringestraat 34, room 002.
Concert: ESN Music Project
Time: 13:00-14:00
Place: Harmony building (upstairs behind the care on the first floor)
XII.5 Tuesday May 10th, 2016: Jewish Music and Its Others
Speaker: Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago, Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover)
Time: 17:00-18:00
Place: Oude Boteringestraat 34, room 002.
XI Thursday February 25, 2016: Eurovision, Media and European Culture
Speaker: Johan Fornäs (Södertörn University, Sweden)
Time: 17:00 – 18:00
Place: 1314.0014 (Harmony Building, ‘under the arches’)
Concert: Eurovision Song Jamboree (featuring Juliette Poulisse)
Time: 13:00 – 14:00
Place: harmony building, first floor behind the cafe
VIII Thursday April 10: Music Festivals Study Day IASPM Benelux
Keynote Speaker: Fabian Holt (Roksilde University)
13:00 (A12, Academy Building, RUG)
VIV Thursday May 7: “Kill the Hippies? Legacies of the Sixties in American Punk”
Speaker: Mike Foley (University of Groningen)
17:00 (Harmony Building, 1314.0014 ‘under the arches’)
X Thursday June 11: Swimming Against the Tide: Producing Musical Theatre in The Netherlands
Concert: Mariska Oostijen van der Kooi and Cas Straatman 13:00 (Marie Loke Hall)
Speakers: Bastiaan Roeters (Musical Theater Director) 14:00 (Marie Loke Hall)
Laura MacDonald (University of Portsmouth) 15:00 (Marie Loke Hall)