Session information

Homemade Music: DIY Music Practices and the Church as Counterculture

In this workshop, Michael Iafrate will reflect on his experiences in independent music communities and what they taught him about being Church. He will also lead discussion on ways to resist corporate throw-away "anti-music" through homemade music and "do-it-yourself" music-making practices. Come with ideas, examples, and experiences you have had with making your own music that you can share. Or if you are more of a listener, come simply with an openness to new ways of thinking about, making, performing, sharing, and "consuming" music.

Recommended Resources:

• Budde, Michael and Robert Brimlow, eds. The Church as Counterculture (2000). SUNY Series in Popular Culture and Political Change. Albany: SUNY Press.
• Callahan, Mat. The Trouble with Music (2005). Oakland, CA: AK Press.
• Holtzman, Ben and Craigh Hughes and Kevin Van Meter. "Do It Yourself... and the Movement Beyond Capitalism." In Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization (2007). Oakland, CA: AK Press.
• Howard-Brook, Wes. The Church Before Christianity (2001). Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
• Sinker, Daniel, ed. We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews (2001). New York: Akashic Books.

• Event Type: Workshop
• Presenters: Michael J. Iafrate
• Times:
  • Workshop one (Fri 15th 10:30am) - Living room
  • Workshop five (Sat 16th 11:00am) - Summer kitchen