Location: Vanstone Lecture Hall, St. Jerome’s University.
Reception: 4:30 PM (food provided)
Time: 5:00-6:30 PM
Titled “’What are you doing here? You’re supposed to be dead!’: The Strange Afterlives of Jimi Hendrix,” Dr. Lloyd examines how Jimi Hendrix’s premature death in 1970 seemed to foreclose an era he had done much to define. Yet at the very moment he fell silent, Hendrix’s music and image catalysed a myriad of artworks that fed off his energy and inventiveness. Pop, jazz, and classical musicians, visual artists, writers, and fashionistas homaged, pastiched, translated, plagiarised, covered, adapted, or cowered before his creations. In this talk I will look at responses to Hendrix’s work and image ranging from the brilliant to the bizarre, from sampling by hip hop artists to Hendrix’s appearances in literary works and fashion collections. I will argue that it is a mistake to frame Hendrix as an icon of âclassic rock’ and that analysis of his influence on other artists restores one of the strangest and most dangerous musicians of the twentieth century to us as a provocative figure in the age of AI and VR.
Dr. Christian Lloyd is Reader in popular Music at Bader College, Queen’s University. He was researcher on the project to reconstruct Jimi Hendrix’s London flat and is the author of Hendrix at Home: a Bluesman in Mayfair.
Registration and information is available at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-lecture-the-strange-afterlives-of-jimi-hendrix-tickets-727988201307.
