Popular x Traditional
Posted: June 19th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on Popular x Traditional11-13 January 2019, RUANG Think City, Kuala Lumpur
Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2018
The IASPM-SEA Conference (IASPM-SEA 2019), hosted by RUANG Think City, will take place on Friday 11th to Sunday 13th January 2019 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This international conference will feature research and performances about the interaction, convergence and contestation of popular music with traditional music in Southeast Asia. We also welcome proposals of / from / on any region that relate to the conference theme or subthemes.
Aside from aesthetic approaches that merge local traditions with global popular music styles, the conference also seeks to question the notion of the popular in relation to the traditional. It is often overlooked that currently considered traditional musics were once popular art forms, either practiced communally (in sites of worship, villages, homes, ritual festivities) or consumed commercially (in records, films, cassettes, concert halls). However, postcolonial states in the region continually seek to construct and perpetuate a primordial expression of national identity, sourced in invented traditions that have resulted in homogenous boundaries of musical culture. In truth, the popular is in constant dialogue with the traditional, as musical practices and styles adapt and change in a process mediated by human actors in ever-changing historical, political, social and cultural contexts.
Thus, the theme of ‘Popular x Traditional’ invites participants to think beyond such the oppositional divide between the two terms in music practice and scholarship, drawing attention to the fluid interchanges and continual adaptations of music-making in the context of distinct national, ethnic and cultural identities expressed in an increasingly commodified and digitally-mediated world.
Keynote speakers
– To be announced
Conference Themes
- Popular x Traditional
- Local x Global
- Art x Commercial
- Performance x Production
- Analog x Digital
- Independent x Mainstream
- Religious x Secular
Proposal categories
- Papers (20 minutes maximum, with 10 minutes for discussion)
- Paper sessions (three or four papers, each of 20 minutes maximum, with 10 minutes per paper for discussion)
- Roundtable discussions (up to 6 participants, each giving a short position paper, followed by a general discussion, total running time of 90 or 120 minutes)
- Recitals, lecture-recitals and lectures illustrated by sound diffusions or audio-visual screenings (maximum duration 90 minutes)
Proposal guidelines
- For individual papers: up to 250 words
- For paper sessions: 250-word (maximum) summary and up to 200 words for each session participant
- For roundtable discussions: 250-word (maximum) and up to 150 words for each panel participant
- For recitals, lecture-recitals and lectures illustrated by sound diffusions or audio-visual screenings: 250 word (maximum) summary, plus participant CVs and recordings / scores / other details of works to be included in the event (contact the organizing committee to discuss)Further information for applicants
- Proposals must be sent by email as a MS Word or PDF attachment to [email protected].
- Proposals need not be anonymised.
- All enquiries should be sent to Ken-Ny via [email protected].
Programme committee:
Adil Johan (UKM, Malaysia)
Citra Aryandari (ISI Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Raja Iskandar Halid (UMK, Malaysia)
Liew Kai Khiun (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Viriya Sawangchot (Inter-Asia School, Thailand)
Sarah Hill (Cardiff University, UK)
Proposal submission deadline: 31 August 2018.
Applicants will be notified by 30 September 2018.