Program

All Speaker BIOS, ABSTRACTS, and PRESENTATIONS are available in the alphabetized tabs

MAY 18

Opening Reception: [11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EDT.)]

Lori Burns (uOttawa, Canada)

MAY 19

Keynote 1: A Half Century of Recording Prog Rock [9:45 – 11:15 AM (EDT.)]

Interview with Paul Northfield, Recording Engineer, Morin Heights, Québec (Canada)
- Paul Northfield (Canada) & Eric Smialek McGill (Canada)

I. Foundations: [11:30 AM – 12:45 PM (EDT.)]

Chair: Chris Anderton

‘Of Warmth When You Die’: Yes, Fragility, and Transformation
- John Covach (U. Rochester, U.S.)

Genesis’s Selling England by the Pound: The Nexus of ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Britain
- Kevin Holm-Hudson U. Kentucky (U.S.)

Is Gryphon Really a Rock Band?
- Robert Sivy (U.Tennessee, U.S.)

Steven Wilson’s Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015): A Contemporary Extension of Progressive Rock
- Lori Burns, (uOttawa, Canada) & Ryan Blakeley, (Eastman (U.S.)

3 MAY 22

Keynote 1: [10:00 - 11:15 AM]

Interview with Paul Northfield, Recording Engineer, Morin Heights
- Paul Northfield (Canada) & Eric Smialek (McGill, Canada)

I. Foundations: [11:30 AM – 12:45 PM]

Chair: Chris Anderton

‘Of Warmth When You Die’: Yes, Fragility, and Transformation
- John Covach (U. Rochester, U.S.)

Genesis’s Selling England by the Pound: The Nexus of ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Britain
- Kevin Holm-Hudson, (U. Kentucky, U.S.)

‘Is Gryphon Really a Rock Band?
- Robert Sivy (U.Tennessee, U.S.)

Steven Wilson’s Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015): A Contemporary Extension of Progressive Rock
- Lori Burns (uOttawa) & Ryan Blakeley (Eastman, U.S.)

Registration/Breakfast [8:00-8:45]

Welcome [8:45-9:00]

- Opening Remarks by Dean Kevin Kee, Faculty of Arts (University of Ottawa)

I. Foundations [9:00-10:30]

- ‘Of Warmth When You Die’: Yes, Fragility, and Transformation, John Covach (University of
Rochester, U.S.)

- Genesis’s Selling England by the Pound: The Nexus of ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Britain, Kevin Holm-
Hudson (University of Kentucky, U.S.)

- Steven Wilson’s Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015): A Contemporary Extension of Progressive Rock. Lori
Burns (University of Ottawa, Canada) and *Ryan Blakeley (Eastman School of Music, U.S.)

Coffee Break [10:30-11:00]

II: Legacies [11:00-12:30]

- The Emergence of Heavy Metal and Progressive Rock in Black Sabbath’s Music from 1969 to 1971,
Nolan Stolz (University of South Carolina, U.S.)

- Heavy Metal Revisited: Iron Maiden as Progressive Rock Legacy, *Marion Brachet (Écoles des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)

- The Heavy Side of Prog: Peter Hammill's Influence on Metal Singers, Leonardo Masi (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Lunch [12:30-1:30]

KEYNOTE I: [1:30-2:30]

- Paul Northfield, Recording Engineer

Coffee Break [2:30-3:00]

III. Developments [3:00-4:30]

- Perpetual Change? Genre, Style and Idiolect in Progressive Rock, Chris Anderton (Solent University,
UK)
- Is This Prog? Defining post-progressive as a creative attitude, *Mattia Merlini (University of Milan,
Italy)
- Sins of Unforgetting - Retroprogression in Rock and Metal Music, Andrzej Mądro (Academy of
Music, Poland)

IV. Fusions [4:45-6:15]

- By Any Other Name? North American Progressive Rock, Fusion, and Stylistic Genealogies, Chris
McDonald (Cape Breton University, Canada)

- Genre Fusion, Musical Topicality, and Early King Crimson, William Echard (Carleton University,
Canada)

- Un exemple de fusion entre esthétique(s) metal et rock progressif : V : Hävitetty de Moonsorrow,
Philippe Gonin (Université de Bourgogne, France)

Gradute Student Dinner and Mentoring Activity [6:30 – 8:00]

- Writing a Thesis on Progressive Rock/Metal, led by John Covach and *Ryan Blakeley.