The survival of mankind will depend to a large extent on the ability of people who think differently to act together. [Geert Hofstede]

Well into the 21st century, the time has come to re-evaluate how traditions have been challenged through different forms of culture in both Austria and Britain in the second half of the 20th century. The generational unit most often linked with challenging traditions is ‘youth’, first identified as a social and cultural phenomenon in the 1950s. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s many attempts were made – mainly, but not only, by young people – to challenge taken-for-granted traditions which the parental generation had brought from the past. The conference aims to investigate various ways in which norms in society have been questioned, opposed and, in some cases, changed by youth.

 9.30  Registration

 9.55  Martin Liebscher (Director, Ingeborg Bachmann Centre): Welcome

10.00 Bianca Zaininger (London): Introduction

10.05 Roman Horak (Vienna): Forever Young. Music, Youth Culture, and the Transfer of Styles

10.40 Peter Webb (London): Globalisation and the Development of Music Milieux: Identity and Hybridity

11.15 Coffee

11.50 Jeffrey W. Timmons (Virginia): Hanif Kureishi and the Second Generation: For and Against the Father

12.30 Lunch (own arrangements)

14.30 Bianca Zaininger (London): Import – Export: The Interrelationship between British and Austrian (Youth) Culture

15.05 Frederick Baker (Krems/St Pölten): Living in a ‘Klammer’: Austro-British Identity between Ski Sunday and The Haider Show

15.40  Tea

16.10  Reinhold Wagnleitner (Salzburg): When the Prime Meridian Shifted to Wardour Street Number 90: Austrian rebels with(out) a Clue in Studded Jeans

16.45  Alex Seago (Richmond/London): Amon Düül and ‘Krautrock’: British (Mis)Interpretations of the 1960s’ Bavarian Underground Scene

17.20  Natalia Wächter (Vienna): Young People on the Move. Youth Culture in the Context of Austrian Society and International Development from the 60s to the 80s

17.55  Concluding Discussion