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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">*a reminder about this week's VLS event*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/" target="_blank">The Association for Cultural Studies</a> (ACS) welcomes you to an upcoming talk
in its <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Virtual Lecture Series</span></strong>, by <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Catherine Hoad (Massey University),</span></strong> titled
<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">‘‘The Problematic Section’: Record stores and physical media after #metoo'</span></strong> (followed by a Q&A), which will take place on <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">October 24th,
12:00 (noon) NZDT/ New Zealand Daylight Time (GMT +13)</span></strong> (more information underneath).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">For more information on the Virtual Lecture Series and upcoming talks, please visit: <a href="https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/" target="_blank">https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Catherine Hoad (Massey University) – ‘The Problematic Section’: Record stores and physical media after #metoo</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">October 24th, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">12:00 (noon) NZDT/ New Zealand Daylight Time (GMT +13)</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">NOTE: THE TALK WILL NOT BE RECORDED</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Abstract:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> This paper explores how independent record stores grapple with the material of problematic artists.
Where much of the current discussion of de-platforming and non-distribution of racist, misogynistic, and otherwise offensive artists, labels, and material has focused on online multinational music streaming services, the position of physical music retailers
has been largely underdiscussed in scholarly research. Similarly, where record stores have often been theorised as spaces that enable community and identity formation, facilitate localised music archiving, and provide sites for the performance of fandom and
subcultural capital (c.f. Arnold et. al, 2023), the ways in which record stores might potentially foster harmful content requires further exploration. Moreover, the independent status and relative financial precarity of bricks-and-mortar record stores adds
additional complicating factors to this discussion, particularly when we enter in to the difficult territory of which businesses can, or can’t, afford to ‘walk away’ from problematic artists (Domanick, 2018).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Through this presentation, I hope to expand upon the common question of what we ‘do’ with the music of problematic artists, particularly when we move that question into a physical retail space.
Drawing on interviews with a selection of independent record stores across Aotearoa, this paper maps the various perspectives, tactics, and approaches undertaken by personnel when choosing – or refusing – to engage with material by problematic artists. As
this discussion explores, record store personnel face a myriad of complex ethical, legal, and commercial frameworks that shape both their sense of their social responsibilities and the viability of their financial operations. Such tensions make clear the entanglements
of communal spaces with capitalist power structures, as these inform the material conditions of music and its communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">References</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Arnold, G., Dougan, J., Feldman-Barrett, C., & Worley, M. (Eds.). (2023).
<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The life, death, and afterlife of the record store: a global history</span></em>. USA: Bloomsbury.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Domanick, A. (2018, May 12). ‘How easy is it for businesses to walk away from problematic artists?’.
<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Noisey/Vice</span></em>, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwm8p4/how-easy-is-it-for-businesses-to-walk-away-from-problematic-artists">
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwm8p4/how-easy-is-it-for-businesses-to-walk-away-from-problematic-artists</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Bio: Dr Catherine Hoad</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> is a senior lecturer in Te Rewa o Puanga School of Music and Screen Arts at Te
Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Chair of the Australia-Aotearoa branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Her published research explores politics of identity and belonging in heavy metal and
hardcore scenes, with a wider research focus on diversity, access, and inclusion in creative industries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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