Posted: July 16th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on wildpop 2025
Corporate interests dominate how we consume culture, what we listen to, what we watch…. Yet underground, DIY and fringe cultures have the grass-roots spontaneous intensity that can challenge that dominance. Don’t they?
November 6-8 2025
Newcastle University, Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Wild Pop is performance and production in music, film, beat-making and the immediacy of online platforms; it collapses formal distinctions between composition and improvisation, between invention and appropriation… between consumption and production, taking and making…
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Posted: July 7th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Post-digital Practices in Music Teacher Training
Post-digital practices such as producing, DJing, sampling and remixing are as much an expression of contemporary music culture as making music on the web, in virtual spaces, or with artificial intelligence (e.g. Haenisch et al., 2023; Mazierska et al., 2019; Miranda, 2021). The qualification of these practices as post-digital indicates that (1) they could only emerge under conditions shaped by digitalization; that (2) at the same time they cannot be understood as exclusively digital, but are intertwined with analogue practices and processes in multiple ways; and that (3) researching these practices requires considering not only their technical dimension, but also their social, ecological, cultural, aesthetics and economic aspects, among other (e.g., Buchborn & Treß, 2023; Clements, 2018; Weidner & Stange, 2022).
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