punk conference

[frandroid]

North America's first international scholarly conference on punk will be held at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, on April 24-26, 2008.

So, punk IS dead after all.

THE PUNK ARCHIVE: Special Collections, in SFU's Bennett Library, is beginning to assemble material for the world's first punk archive.

Seriously? I don't believe it.

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[compasspoints.livejournal.com]

i was hoping they'd be far along enough in the planning process that i'd be able to see a schedule, just to see how this is gonna go.

the idea of a 'punk archive' - like a zine archive - is something that pleases the obsessive hoarder in me, but you're right, it has the sound of a bit of a death knell.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

I find it preposterous that they would be the "first" one. Maybe the first institutional one, but I'm sure there are a bunch of smaller archives around...

Punk archives...

[retinal-strain.livejournal.com]

AKA record collections.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Also, holy shit, what a walkman :]

[compasspoints.livejournal.com]

i was debating on sending this to the goodwill the other day, and then was thinking 'but what if i want to walk around and listen to my tapes? can you even buy a new tape walkman anymore?'

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Well, even if you could buy a new walkman, you wouldn't want to shell out for such a thing anyway... So might as well keep that one! I have three here that are pretty useless, but that I keep "just in case". Eeek!

[purveyorofchaos.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else find it ironic that this conference is held at SFU?

[purveyorofchaos.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I'm dyslexic.

The violent hardcore gang is FSU.

It's totally not funny this way. :(

[hexalyn.livejournal.com]

This might be interesting. I took some undergrad classes with the conference organizer, Paul Budra, many years ago. His lectures were entertaining, to say the least -- framing Hamlet as a prototypical goth, for example -- and I can just picture him as a young punk enthusiast before the academics reigned him in.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Maybe he's still punk, but he doesn't bring that fully to class. :]