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Transformational POP

Posted: February 26th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | No Comments »

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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Innovation in Music 2020

Posted: February 24th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »

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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1st Queer Forum of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group

Posted: February 13th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »

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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Transcultural Hip-Hop: Constructing and Contesting Identity, Space, and Place in the Americas and Beyond

Posted: February 11th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | 1 Comment »

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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Sustainability Through Art: The role of art in and towards sustainable changes

Posted: February 10th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »

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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Finnish Yearbook of Ethnomusicology 2020

Posted: February 7th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »

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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KISMIF CONFERENCE 2020

Posted: February 3rd, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »

Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!
DIY Cultures and Global Challenges
8-11 July 2020

Proposal Submissions deadline: 15 February 2020.

Venues:
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto
Casa da Música
Casa Comum Universidade do Porto
TM Rivoli
Palacete Viscondes Balsemão
Barracuda Clube de Roque
Plano B
RAMPA

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Mediating Music

Posted: February 1st, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »

Indiana University, Bloomington
April 17-18, 2020

The Platform Global Popular Music Team at Indiana University (Kyle Adams, director) is pleased to announce our Symposium, “Mediating Music,” to be held on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington, April 17-18. Opening and closing keynote addresses will be given by Brian Eno (participating live by video stream) and Maureen Mahon (New York University).

Other lectures and performances will be given by:

  • Jace Clayton (DJ Rupture), musician, artist, and author of Uproot: Travels in 21st Century Music and Digital Culture
  • Damon Krukowski, drummer (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi) and author of Ways of Hearing and The New Analog
  • G YAMAZAWA, hip-hop artist, National Poetry Slam winner, cultural diplomat for the U.S. Department of State
  • Fredara Hadley, Professor of Ethnomusicology, The Juilliard School
  • Regina Bradley, Assistant Professor of English and African Diaspora Studies, Kennesaw State University
  • Shane Greene, Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, and Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Lafayette University

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