Bob Dylan in 1963 with the singer-songwriter Joan Baez, both of whom featured in the documentary Don’t Look Back
Rock on: Conference highlights the music documentary. Film-makers and musicians will be gathering in Brighton this summer for the first-ever music documentary conference, organised by the University of Sussex. MusicDOC11 is a one-day conference (Saturday 9 July 2011) devoted to the music documentary genre (or "rockumentary", a term first coined by Rolling Stone magazine in 1967) that will investigate the artistic and social impact of rock and pop as seen through the eyes of fans and film-makers. The conference has been organised by a team of academics, musicians and film makers from the University of Sussex and Brighton Institute of Modern Music (BIMM). Ever since Bob Dylan's particular brand of cool was explored in films such as D A Pennebaker's Don't Look Back (filmed during Dylan's UK tour of 1965) through to the BBC's recent BBC4 Britannia series of music-genre documentaries, the rockumentary has served as an important chronicler of modern culture. The last decade has seen steady growth in the genre, alongside the proliferation of television channels, film festivals and online sites. And there have been the spoofs, too, most notably This Is Spinal Tap .
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