Posted: November 2nd, 2022 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Subcultures Network International Conference
Date: 13 April – 14 April 2023
Venue: Frenchay Campus, UWE, Bristol
Venue Location: https://www.uwe.ac.uk/life/campus-and-facilities/frenchay-campus/frenchay-campus-map
Time: TBC
The Subcultures Network wishes to celebrate the diversity of disciplines, scholars, researchers and writers who have been involved in the Network over the past twelve years. But we also aim to encourage those who haven’t been to one of our events before to submit abstracts and come and share their ideas, research and knowledge with us.
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Posted: November 2nd, 2022 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Sounding Space and Place: New Directions in the Geography of Sound and Music
Organizers:
Luke Leavitt (Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison); Arun Saldanha (Department of Geography, Environment and Society, University of Minnesota);
Rashad Shabazz (School of Social Transformation/School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning, Arizona State University)
Though geographers have been doing research on music for decades, there has recently been a flourishing of new perspectives emerging between cultural geography, popular music studies, and sound studies. This series of panels builds on the momentum at previous AAG meetings to create community and exchange. “Space and place” are more than just the “where” of the production, dissemination, and consumption of particular sounds. When we listen to music and other sounds we’re hearing history, migration, power, industry, race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, climate, language, and a host of other social and environmental factors. No musician, listener, or sound-maker lives outside these forces, and the experiences of music and sound in turn help shape these contexts. How do the multiple crises heaping up in the world today come to inflect soundscapes and the sonic arts? This series of panels provides cases and concepts for demonstrating how music and sound are spatialized.
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Posted: November 2nd, 2022 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Politics in Music and Song
Queen’s University Belfast, 8-10 September 2023
Music at Queen’s University Belfast in collaboration with the network ‘Songs of Social Protest’ is hosting a conference from 8-10 September 2023 that will explore the great variety of musical and lyrical expression within the field of protest song.
Over the past few decades protest song has become a burgeoning field of academic study. Significant publications have captured the international variety of protest song, such as Dillane, Power, Devereux and Haynes (2018), Friedman (2017), Illiano (2015), Kutschke and Norton (2014) and Peddie (2020, 2012). Other work has been more nationally focussed, such as that of John and Robb’s The 1848 Protest Song Tradition in Germany (2020), Millar’s Sounding Dissent on Irish rebel songs (2020), and Lebrun’s Protest Music in France (2009). As well as ‘Songs of Social Protest’ (Limerick, 2015) other networks have arisen with publications reflecting both national and international perspectives such as ‘To the Barricades. Popular Protest in Europe 1815-1850’ (Warwick, 2018) and ‘Our Subversive Voice. The History and Politics of the English Protest Song’ (UEA, 2021). We invite papers from a wide international field and additionally welcome case studies on transnational protest song.
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