4,818 research outputs found
It’s not all about the music:online fan communities and collecting Hard Rock Café pins
Previous studies of music fan culture have largely centered on the diverse range of subcultures devoted to particular genres, groups, and stars. Where studies have moved beyond the actual music and examined the fashion, concerts, and collecting ephemera such as vinyl records and posters, they have tended to remain closely allied to notions of subcultural distinction, emphasizing hierarchies of taste. This paper shifts the focus in music fan studies beyond the appreciation of the music and discusses the popular fan practice of collecting souvenir pins produced and sold by the Hard Rock Café (HRC) within a framework of fan tourism. Traveling to and collecting unique pins from locations across the globe creates a fan dialogue that centers on tourism and the collecting practices associated with souvenir consumption. Collectors engage in practices such as blogging, travel writing, and administration that become important indicators of their particular expression of fandom: pin collecting. Membership requires both time and money; recording visits around the world and collecting unique pins from every café builds fans' cultural capital. This indicates an internationalization of popular fandom, with the Internet acting as a connective virtual space between local and national, personal and public physical space. The study of HRC pin collecting and its fan community suggests that HRC enthusiasts are not so because they enjoy rock music or follow any particular artist but due to the physical ephemera that they collect and the places and spaces they visit
What is the ‘Television’ of the European Journal of Cultural Studies? Reflections on 20 years of the study of television in the journal
Over 20 years, the European Journal of Cultural Studies has been an important
resource for those writing and thinking about television, and this article reflects
on the rich material contained in the long run of issues published since 1998. As
part of ‘On the Move’, the Special Issue to mark the 20th anniversary of the journal,
it also introduces the special online dossier of articles on television. It offers an
impressionistic reflection on the author’s experiences of engaging with work on
television as it has appeared in this journal. In homage to Raymond Williams, that
great writer about television (and much else), this article focuses on three key words
which seem crucial to this enterprise – journal, television and European
Companion forms for unitary and symplectic groups
We prove a companion forms theorem for ordinary n-dimensional automorphic
Galois representations, by use of automorphy lifting theorems developed by the
second author, and a technique for deducing companion forms theorems due to the
first author. We deduce results about the possible Serre weights of mod l
Galois representations corresponding to automorphic representations on unitary
groups. We then use functoriality to prove similar results for automorphic
representations of GSp4 over totally real fields.Comment: 40 page
Congruences between Hilbert modular forms: constructing ordinary lifts
Under mild hypotheses, we prove that if F is a totally real field, k is the
algebraic closure of the finite field with l elements and r : G_F --> GL_2(k)
is irreducible and modular, then there is a finite solvable totally real
extension F'/F such that r|_{G_F'} has a modular lift which is ordinary at each
place dividing l. We deduce a similar result for r itself, under the assumption
that at places v|l the representation r|_{G_F_v} is reducible. This allows us
to deduce improvements to results in the literature on modularity lifting
theorems for potentially Barsotti-Tate representations and the
Buzzard-Diamond-Jarvis conjecture. The proof makes use of a novel lifting
technique, going via rank 4 unitary groups.Comment: 48 page
- …