Posted: March 5th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Heroes, Canons, Cults. Critical Inquiries
isaScience 2020 from 12-16 August 2020
Conference venue: Hotel Marienhof, Hauptstraße 71-73, 2651 Reichenau an der Rax, Austria
Organisers of isaScience: Dagmar Abfalter, Marko Kölb, Rosa Reitsamer, Fritz Trümpi
Coordinators: Karoline Feyertag, Slavomíra Martišková
Contact: [email protected]
Further information: mdw.ac.at/isa/isascience
isaScience 2020 focuses on critical perspectives on heroic imaginations, cultic actions and the formation and maintenance of canons. Across musical styles and cultural spheres, heroes, cults and canons contribute to the creation of normative and exclusionary and even violent settings, dictating what ears and eyes should deem adequate and valuable. Likewise, heroisation, cultification and canonisation define what remains unheard, unseen and regarded as unworthy.
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Posted: March 5th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on Regional experiences and external influences: reclaiming identities by popular music in the digital era
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and International Association for the Study of Popular Music
Toruń, Poland June 18-20, 2020
Conference website: https://iaspm2020torun.wixsite.com/website
The main objective of the conference is to exchange the experiences of studying popular music regional scenes. Such panorama tends to functionally and structurally reflect the specific and diversified character of cultural regionalism itself, including music and its social functions. We shall examine local popular music scenes in three varied but overlapping perspectives located mainly in the fields of musicology, sociology, anthropology, literary studies, cultural studies, political science, but we do not limit the academic areas of research. Thus, the experts of the enumerated fields covering the research on popular music are welcome.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Music Production Education Conference 2020 – Reflecting the Future
EXTENDED CALL DEADLINE 03/04/2020
Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK
Thursday 14th – Friday 15th May 2020
www.musicproductioneducation.co.uk
MPEC 2020 is the second conference for the study of Music Production & Technology pedagogy. MPEC seeks to provide a forum for the discussion and analysis of teaching and learning in music production & technology in Further and Higher Education. The conference offers a forum for lively debate and stimulating presentations that address some of the issues of contemporary music production education within the broader context of the arts sector, research and professional communities.
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Posted: March 1st, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on SMA Theory and Analysis Graduate Students Conference
25th and 26th April 2020
City, University of London
*Submissions very welcome from ethnomusicologists*
The Society for Music Analysis’s annual Theory and Analysis Graduate Students (TAGS) Conference will be hosted by the Department of Music at City University on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 April, 2020. The event provides a supportive and friendly environment in which postgraduates can gain experience in presenting their work and meet fellow researchers. Participants who do not wish to give a paper are also very welcome to attend.
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Posted: February 26th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on Transformational POP
Transitions, Breaks, and Crises in Popular Music (Studies)
4th Biennial IASPM D-A-CH Conference, 22–24 October 2020
Paderborn University/Germany, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Department of Music – Popular Music and Media
Organizational Committee: IASPM D-A-CH Executive Committee and Advisory Board + Jun.-Prof. Dr. Beate Flath, Prof. Dr. Christoph Jacke, Manuel Troike (Local hosts)
Pop music cultures, in their entire breadth, are seismographs of social, political, economic, ecological, media, artistic, and technological transformations. In and through them, fields of tensions, disruptions, and lines of conflict become not only visible, audible and perceptible, but also communicable and thus, negotiable. Economic and ecological crises, social structural changes, political shifts, communicative-media discourses, atmospheric moods, and disturbances of the most diverse kind cannot be appreciated in isolation from specific sounds, performances, lyrics, images, stars, genres, etc. Therefore, these are always changing in the process: pop music cultures transform and are themselves transformed. “Pop is transformational, always. It is a dynamic movement in which cultural materials and its social environments mutually reshape each other, crossing previously fixed boundaries: class boundaries, ethnic boundaries or cultural boundaries [own translation].“ (Diedrich Diederichsen, Pop – deskriptiv, normativ, emphatisch (1996). In: Charis Goer, Stefan Greif, Christoph Jacke (Eds.): Texte zur Theorie des Pop, 2013: 188)
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Posted: February 24th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Innovation in Music 2020
Stockholm, 03-05 December 2020
Music Production: International Perspectives
Innovation in Music 2020 will be held at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden on 03 – 05 December 2020. A Routledge conference proceedings book will be published in 2021.
The titled theme is “Music Production: International Perspectives” and whilst contributions aligning to this are encouraged, it is not exclusive; the conference scope remains multi-disciplinary as below.
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Posted: February 13th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on 1st Queer Forum of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group
Friday 3rd April 2020, University of York
https://www.lgbtqmusicstudygroup.com
Invitation to Participate
The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group hereby launches a new biennial initiative: “Queer Forum”. This day-long event aims to catalyse new ways of thinking, being and doing music scholarship in and beyond the academy. As José Esteban Muñoz writes, “[w]e may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality” (2009, 1). Inspired by queer and feminist theorists – especially bell hooks and Sara Ahmed – who are dissatisfied with the present, who wrestle with existing institutional structures, and who propose new modes of scholarship and education, we entice you to join us in radical academic experimentation in search for new horizons and potentialities.
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Posted: February 11th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Transcultural Hip-Hop: Constructing and Contesting Identity, Space, and Place in the Americas and Beyond
University of Bern, Switzerland, October 30 – 31, 2020
Almost fifty years after its birth, hip-hop is considered a truly global phenomenon that combines elements of uniformity with local symbols and expressions regarding musical forms, lyrics, performances, and social content. It can be said that within the US context, hip-hop emerged during the 1970s as an African American subculture. However, from its very beginning hip-hop has been a highly transcultural and hybrid phenomenon that integrates various musical elements and forms of cultural expression. In addition to African American popular culture, for example, Caribbean and Latin American music styles, language and dance played a vital role in the formation and development of hip-hop on both coasts of the US. The entanglement of diverse cultures and diasporas on the evolution of hip-hop as a music and as a movement, in the urban settings of New York and Los Angeles, for example, encourages us to think of these different musical, cultural, and social traits in more fluid or hybrid terms.
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Posted: February 10th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Sustainability Through Art: The role of art in and towards sustainable changes
24-25 September 2020, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
International conference organized by the Research Committee of Sociology of Arts and Culture (CR-SAC, Swiss Sociological Association) & the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne and Lucerne
For more than a century, sociology has studied art and culture as being among the main pillars of society and human activity, intertwined with social norms, values, traditions, ways of being, and seeing. In 2015, the United Nations Member States adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) towards attaining “a better and more sustainable future for all”. Some of the SDGs have long been the direct research subjects of the social sciences: poverty and vulnerability (SDG 1), health and wellbeing (SDG 3), labour and working conditions (SDG 8) as well as gender and social inequalities (SDG 5, 10). Since the 1970s, studies have also delved into the sociological aspects of what was left for a long time to the natural sciences: issues at the crossroads of society and biodiversity, marine and wildlife preservation, energy resources, and climate change – what constitute a major part of the SDG agenda. For example, SGD 12 – responsible production and consumption – is now the focus of Marlyne Sahakian’s research group in the Sociology Department at the University of Geneva.
While the sociology of arts and culture has long dealt with classical sociological questions of artistic production, distribution and reception, the concern for ecological issues has only recently been taken up. One example is Kyle Devine’s Decomposed. The Political Ecology of Music (2019) studying the exploitation by the record industry of natural and human resources. On the one hand, the artistic field is an economy and an industry like any other, where the use of natural and human resources leads to questions of inequality, access and power relations. On the other hand, it represents a particular case, as intertwined with the issues of sustainability are those of artistic meaning, reception and cultural practices, and social factors different than in other fields.
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Posted: February 7th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Finnish Yearbook of Ethnomusicology 2020
The Finnish Yearbook of Ethnomusicology is a peer reviewed open access music research journal. The Finnish Yearbook of Ethnomusicology 32 (2020) will be published as PDF-files on the Open Journal Systems platform (OJS) of the Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology http://etnomusikologia.journal.fi in December 2020. Editors for the journal are PhD Janne Mäkelä, PhD Kaj Ahlsved and MA Viliina Silvonen. The journal has been granted level 1 status in the Publication Forum of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. The articles will all be supplied by an individual DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -number.
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