Posted: January 22nd, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on MUSICAL FREESPACE: Towards a radical politics of musical spaces and musical citizenship
Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 September 2018 in Venice, Italy.
FOLLOW-ON EVENTS: Venice and Chioggia – Friday 14 September, Saturday 15 and
Sunday 16 September 2018
The 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale has the concept of “Freespace” as its principal theme.
We invite musicologists, architects, urbanists and migration activists to join us in Venice for a “fringe” conference running alongside the Biennale. Our intention is to add to the “Freespace” agenda important questions of musical citizenship, and a radical politics of musical spaces, in relation to music, song and dance. We feel that the matter is pressing at a time when, all across the world, music, song and dance are increasingly constrained by the interests of power and commerce.
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Posted: January 18th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on (E)valuating Transnational Music Practices: Space, Diversity, and Exchange
June 14 & June 15, 2018, at the Senatssaal (Mercatorhaus), University of Duisburg-Essen (Campus Duisburg)
Music extends and goes beyond enclosed spaces both physically and metaphorically. As complex phenomena, music practices are hardly to be confined by borders of any kind. At the same time, there is little doubt that music is strongly connected to notions of origin or ancestry, ideas of the sacred, to certain places, political claims, aesthetic norms, or economic exchange. In contexts like these, music practices are rendered and thus (e)valuated and categorized. We suggest building on these opposing tensions within music practices in general and discussing in particular the valuation and evaluation of diversity, space and exchange in transnational music practices. While scholarly research in the fields of transnational culture (Glick Schiller & Meinhof 2011) and (e)valuation studies (Lamont 2012; Kjellberg 2013) have received growing attention in recent years, their overlapping in academic research on music still promises interesting insights.
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Posted: January 18th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Future of Live Music
University of Central Lancashire, Thursday 7th June 2018
The development and mass manufacture of audio technology in the 20th century accelerated the commodification of music that had developed in the 19th century through the growing market for sheet music. From the post-world war 2 period to the end of the century the term ‘music industry’ could almost be taken as being synonymous with the recording industry. However, more recently, in the wake of digital technologies, the value of the recording has arguably plummeted, both in terms of the financial reward it offers to artists and in the cultural capital it offers consumers.
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Posted: January 16th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Popular Music & Society: Special Issue on Regional and Rural Popular Music Scenes
Guest-edited by Andy Bennett, David Cashman, and Natalie Lewandowski
Popular Music and Society invites article proposals for a special issue on Regional and Rural Popular Music Scenes. There is now an established body of literature on popular music scenes (see, for example, Straw, “Systems of Articulation, Logics of Change: Scenes and Communities in Popular Music”; Shank, Dissonant Identities; Bennett and Peterson, Music Scenes: Local, Translocal and Virtual). Significantly, however, this literature is heavily centered on the urban metropolitan experience of music scenes or “music cities.” While such work is clearly important in understanding the cultural and economic importance of music, the dominance of this metro-centric approach also serves to further detract attention from regional and rural spaces and places, the latter also providing important settings for the production, performance, and consumption of popular music (Waitt and Gibson, “The Spiral Gallery: Non-Market Creativity and Belonging in an Australian Country Town”). This special issue will bring together a series of papers that will offer new insights regarding both the distinctive contributions made by regional and rural music scenes in the contemporary world and their connections to national and transnational networks of popular music production, performance, and consumption.
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Posted: January 16th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Progressive Methods in Popular Music Education Symposium
Inaugural Symposium: Canadian Popular Music Education Network
The Progressive Methods in Popular Music Education Symposium seeks to bring together researchers, practitioners and others concerned with viewing popular music education through a progressive lens.
Presentation proposals and workshops on any aspect of popular music progressive methodology are welcome. The conference will be organized under the three strands below:
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Posted: January 12th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on To Each Their Own Pop: Music, Cinema and Television in Europe in the Period of the Youth Movements (1960-1979)
Call for Essays: Cinéma&Cie, no. 31 – Special issue edited by Massimo Locatelli, Alessandro Bratus and Miguel Mera
The scope of this issue is to gather papers related to a decisive period in the development of audiovisual media in contemporary Europe: the 60’s and 70’s are linked with different patterns of economic growth and consumption across different countries, but nevertheless related to the diffusion of television and the new technologies in the record industry, from both the point of view of production and reproduction. Such changes determined the emergence of new forms of expression, media aggregation and consumption behaviors with respect to the past.
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Posted: January 10th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Reggae Innovation and Sound System Culture
SOUND SYSTEM EXHIBITION LAUNCH, MARCH 21st 2018
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND MUSIC EVENTS, APRIL 4 & 5th 2018 BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY, BIRMINGHAM UK.
Birmingham City University and The University of West Indies are delighted to announce a forthcoming international conference on reggae culture and sound system innovation, and give notice of a forthcoming call for conference papers. Information on submission processes will be published in December.
The conference will be hosted in The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire at BCU, with its world-leading concert venues and conference facilities. The conference will also allow you entry to a number of planned reggae events and performances.
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Posted: January 10th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Participatory Approaches to Music & Democracy
The conference isaScience 2018 is part of isa, the International Summer Academy of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria.
https://www.mdw.ac.at/isa/isascience
Conference date: 10–14 August 2018
Conference venue: Hotel Marienhof, Reichenau an der Rax, Austria
Keynote: David Hesmondhalgh, Professor for Media, Music and Culture, University of Leeds, UK
Organisers: Dagmar Abfalter, Marko Kölbl, Rosa Reitsamer, Fritz Trümpi
Over the last few decades, a rich body of literature has explored how individuals and groups use music as a resource to achieve social, cultural and political participation and to bring about social change in society.
Studies have also investigated music’s use by political groups and parties in the past and present that impose
authoritarian, neoliberal or even fascist political ideas. Finally, research is concerned with the promise and
myth of democratization through technology in regard to music production, distribution and reception/appropriation.
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Posted: January 9th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on El oído pensante
Volume 6 (No. 2, 2018)
The aim of this biannual peer-reviewed online journal of free access is to promote debate on theoretical, methodological and epistemological dilemmas faced by different kind of music research. Since the intention of the journal is to promote critical thought aimed to dismantle usual concepts and to open new approaches, papers restricted to analyzing particular cases will not be accepted. However, it is expected that authors bring some cases into the text in order to support their main ideas. Submission guidelines in:
http://ppct.caicyt.gov.ar/index.php/oidopensante/about/submissions#authorGuidelines.
Papers in Spanish, Portuguese and English will be accepted by March 31, 2018.
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Posted: January 4th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on 49th Annual Conference of IASA
1-4 October 2018, at the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
Conference theme: Access and Accessibility – Archival Policies and Barriers in the Age of Global Information Exchange
Open and equal access to information is in high demand, yet may be impeded by social, cultural, and economic barriers. The question of access at the same time encourages discussions on the technical, legal, and practical modes of accessibility.
The programme committee for the IASA 2018 conference invites proposals focused on the prospects and limitations of global and local access and accessibility to audiovisual archives, as well as on issues of discovery, care, preservation and dissemination of our sound and audiovisual heritage.
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