Location

Kennedy Union 221 (on UD's main campus)

Start Date

11-4-2023 8:30 AM

End Date

11-4-2023 9:45 AM

Keywords

Community Engagement, Music, Artwork, Activism, Social Protest, Popular Culture, Music and Social Change

Abstract

This panel presentation will explore new forms of engagement and activism that have emerged with community transformation through social media, music, performance, and the presentation of self and identity. These changes in visual and musical landscapes have created exciting opportunities to disrupt systems and cultures of domination and oppression. This session will explore how area activists, citizens, and artists have used popular culture to interrogate and respond to anti-democratic and anti-representative initiatives in Ohio. By exploring actual music of Dayton-based artists, performance at inclusive music events (for example, For Dayton By Dayton), artwork, and social protest in Ohio, the conversation in this session will demonstrate how the intersection of popular culture, which is all too often ignored in the analysis of resistance, provides vehicles for endurance and social change to anti-democratic trends in the state of Ohio.

Author/Speaker Biographical Statement(s)

Dr. Art Jipson, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Dayton, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and radio producer, podcaster, and blogger. Dr. Jipson is the host and producer of Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative – a local Dayton-based radio program – since 2004. He has been a team member of the PREVENTS-OH grant exploring ways to intervene through education and dialogue with the radicalization among domestic violent extremists.

Dr. Paul Becker, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and professional photographer. Dr. Becker has been photographing and documenting forms of resistance and protest for over a decade. He has been a team member of the PREVENTS-OH grant exploring ways to intervene through education and dialogue with the radicalization among domestic violent extremists.

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Nov 4th, 8:30 AM Nov 4th, 9:45 AM

Activism in the Popular Imagination

Kennedy Union 221 (on UD's main campus)

This panel presentation will explore new forms of engagement and activism that have emerged with community transformation through social media, music, performance, and the presentation of self and identity. These changes in visual and musical landscapes have created exciting opportunities to disrupt systems and cultures of domination and oppression. This session will explore how area activists, citizens, and artists have used popular culture to interrogate and respond to anti-democratic and anti-representative initiatives in Ohio. By exploring actual music of Dayton-based artists, performance at inclusive music events (for example, For Dayton By Dayton), artwork, and social protest in Ohio, the conversation in this session will demonstrate how the intersection of popular culture, which is all too often ignored in the analysis of resistance, provides vehicles for endurance and social change to anti-democratic trends in the state of Ohio.