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Seminar

Park Life: Music in Roundhay Park

13.00 - 14.00
08 May 2024
Leeds Central Library, Sanderson Room, Calverley Street Leeds LS1 3AB

This illustrated talk focuses on the history of pop music concerts in Roundhay Park. The modern history stretches back to 1982 in terms of large-scale events, but the park has a rich and broad musical history.

Join Dr Peter Mills to discuss the importance of the park to the city's own self-image, and the role the concerts played in the city's cultural reinvention in the late 20th century.

Following the park’s timeline reveals much about the changing nature of musical staging and performance, alongside the city's willingness and capacity to stage such events. This Cultural Conversation will reflect on the future of huge events in the park, post pandemic, as both the music industry and the city of Leeds rapidly change.

This event is part of the Leeds Cultural Conversations series organised by the Centre for Culture and Humanities at Leeds Beckett University.

Dr Peter Mills

Senior Lecturer / School Of Humanities And Social Sciences

Peter's main areas of research and teaching are Popular Music Studies, Music and the Moving Image, Music and Dissent, Adaptation, Hungarian Musical Culture, Australian Musical Culture. Books on Van Morrison, Samuel Beckett and The Monkees.

Email Dr Peter Mills