Posted: January 20th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Mainstream! Popular Culture in Central and Eastern Europe
5th conference of Centre for the Study of Popular Culture with the support of National museum of Czech Republic, Faculty of Arts of Charles University and the German Historical Institute Warsaw
29 October – 31 October 2020, Prague
Mainstream media representations of celebrities remain problematic, as excited discussions regarding the recent funeral of singer Karel Gott have demonstrated. The appraisal of his long-term career has been divided into two extreme positions: uncritical admiration for the idol who spread joy under different political regimes on one hand and condemnation of his kitschy art associated with his selling out under these regimes on the other. What the overall debate has confirmed, is that stars and celebrities of popular culture can become symbols of any given period.
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Posted: January 9th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Feminist and Critical Race Approaches to Analyzing the Emerging Role of ‘Culture’ in Music Streaming Services
Panel Proposal for the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting
Ottawa, Canada October 22-25, 2020
Panel Organizer: Darci Sprengel, University of Oxford
In September 2018, Spotify launched its ‘Global Cultures Initiative’, which it insisted would make it a ‘leader’ in the field of audio streaming by moving the platform beyond its traditional focus on North American and European musics to ‘promote and advance culturally diverse music’ (Spotify Newsroom 2018). As Spotify expanded to other regions, however, it met pushback from local rivals. For example, Anghami (‘my tunes’ in Arabic), founded in Lebanon in 2012 and known as ‘the Spotify of the Middle East’, claims to meet better the needs of Arab listeners. It boasts alternative algorithmic technologies with unique abilities to combine international and local sounds in ways it asserts listeners in the Middle East and Arab diaspora want to hear, making Anghami’s distinctly local knowledge its ‘sonic brand’. These trends indicate that music streaming services differentiate themselves not through the music they provide, but through the techniques they employ to mediate between users and music catalogue (Goldschmitt and Seaver 2019).
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Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture
An e-journal for student voices to challenge, energise and diversify engagement with audiovisual media
Sonic Scope invites fresh, intrepid and dynamic student voices to re-imagine and revise critical, interdisciplinary approaches to audiovisual media. Today’s accelerated media landscape offers an unprecedented range of audiovisual experiences, from dynamically reactive video games and ultra HD sports events, to live-streamed political rallies and YouTube vlogs. Within this expanding landscape, the relationship of music and sound to image has undergone radical cultural and aesthetic upheaval. Sonic Scope intervenes in this shifting media terrain by engaging with audiovisual events as they happen. At the same time, it uses contemporary debates to revitalise discourse on traditional audiovisual forms, such as film, opera, theatre, the sounding visual arts and intermedial music.
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Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Music and the Spanish Civil War
8 – 10 October 2020
Humboldt University, Berlin
Convened by Diego Alonso (Postdoctoral Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin) in collaboration with the International Hanns Eisler Society, Berlin. The conference is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Keynote speakers:
Michael Christoforidis & Elizabeth Kertesz (U. of Melbourne, Australia)
Gemma Pérez Zalduondo (U. of Granada, Spain)
Until recently, the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was frequently considered a time of paralysis, a parenthesis between the rich musical life of early 20th-century Spain and the new cultural and musical landscape of post-war Spain under Franco’s dictatorship. Accordingly, we still lack a thorough account of the role played by music and music criticism in this crucial period of Spain’s recent history. Similarly, the international impact of the Civil War on music has been explored only sporadically. These studies have focused primarily on a few musicians and a small selection of works, rather than more fully examining the range of activities, productions and debates involving music in and beyond Spain.
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Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on El oído pensante
El oído pensante invites the submission of articles for the eighth volume (No. 2, 2020)
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.
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Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Artistry and Business of Queen; Past, Present and Future
Wednesday 10th June 2020, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Deadline for submissions: 28 February 2020
According to the most recent International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (I.F.P.I.) Global Recording Artist of the Year chart, published 26th February 2019, Queen were listed at Number 6 in the top 10. Thisindependently verified chart “includes sales of albums – across digital, CD and vinyl formats; singles, both downloaded and physical; and streams across the calendar year. The chart includes all the music of each artist featured, not just one track or album. It uses album equivalent units to combine measurements of downloads, physical sales and streams.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Déan é tú féin – DIY Music and Music Culture in Ireland
1 day Symposium
Date: 3rd April, 2020
Venue: School of Media Technological University Dublin
Submission Deadline: 20th January 2020
DIY music has a long history of credibility and success on the island of Ireland. From the Dublin punk scenes of the 1980’s and the Cork scene of the 1990’s to the fact the number one selling album of all time in Ireland was the front room produced White Ladder. From peace-work in the context of the Northern Irish Troubles to the sites of recent feminist struggles, DIY artists have often adopted a strong political stance and engaged in meaningful activist work through consciousness raising activities that have contributed to social change on the island of Ireland. DIY music culture in Ireland has exploded in recent years due to the proliferation of new technology and it remains a site for social and sonic experimentation affording diverse and new voices the opportunity to be heard. This symposium aims to bring together disparate voices to explore some of the myriad ways in which DIY culture has impacted Irish popular music.
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Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Symposium: Music Studies on a Damaged Planet: Sound Responses to Environmental Breakdown
Supported by the Institute of Musical Research (RHUL)
Senate House, London, 27th March 2020
If, as activist Greta Thunberg says, the only response to climate crisis is to ‘act as if our house is on fire’, where does this leave music studies? Music scholars, like the wider academy and society at large, have struggled to respond to the climate emergency and environmental breakdown. And while nature and the environment have been mounting thematic concerns in some recent work, the scale and complexity of the current ecological crisis and the urgent need for widespread systemic change raise questions about the roles and responsibilities of music scholarship as a whole. If we must now find ways to live on a damaged planet (Tsing, Swanson, Gan and Bubandt 2017), environmental breakdown is no longer simply a topic with which some music scholars choose to engage; rather, it is one of the conditions in which music studies operates.
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Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Global South Popular Music Perspectives
Date: Friday 28 February, 2020
Presentations from 9am to 5pm at the Garden Building, Bowen Street (above Streat Café), RMIT, with lunch provided, followed by DJ/VJ event at Loop Project Space & Bar featuring symposium participants.
Seeking papers from researchers to be presented on popular music-making and performance from the perspective of the ‘Global South’. We are also soliciting presentations from musicians, producers, DJs, and sound system operators.
Submit abstracts of 300 words to: [email protected] by 15 January 2020
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Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference 2020: Leisure Pasts, Presents and Futures
Manchester Metropolitan University
7-9 July 2020
Birley Campus
The Leisure Studies Association is delighted to open the first call for abstracts for its annual conference in 2020, including a special stream on music and sound in leisure spaces.
The conference offers the opportunity to explore leisure from a range of disciplinary perspectives, and to learn from industry and policy practitioners.
In 2020, its core theme is leisure pasts, presents and futures. Presenters and delegates are thus invited to consider:
- How has leisure been constructed, understood and enacted over time?
- What role does leisure play in addressing societal challenges today?
- How can the past inform the present in terms of leisure practice, policy and research?
- What are the future trends in policy, practice and research?
- Where and when do we make space for leisure in 2020?
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