17/10/2024
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Sustainable Cities and Cultures of Music

We are pleased to invite you to attend the ERASMUS+ (Music4Change) funded International School Sustainable Cities and Cultures of Music from November 5-8, 2024 at the University of Groningen. This school (offering 3 ECT points) is geared towards scholars and graduate students (MA and PhD) and features panels, workshops, soundwalks, concerts, and a keynote lecture by Prof. Ellen Waterman (Carleton University).

Performances and interactive music activities are planned by DJ Juan Chao (from Uruguay), Hans Fidom (Groningen’s organs), and many other local musicians.

The school is free and open for interested scholars, students, and music professionals.

To attend you can register here

17/09/2024
by R. Kuchar
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SAVE THE DATE – NEXT GROOVE THE CITY CONFERENCE IN 2026

With great pleasure we would like to announce that the Urban Music Studies Network comes back to event activities started with the 2018 Groove the City Conferences.

And we have very good news: Groove the City is back! Save the date for „Groove the City – Move the Streets“ – our next International Urban Music Studies Conference that will be held in Vienna from Sept. 17th – 19th, 2026.

More information and Call for Papers will follow very soon…

09/08/2024
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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From Broadway to The Bronx – New York City’s History through Songs

Edited by Veronika Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier this book brings a vibrant depiction of New York City in song across a variety of different genres, focusing on Broadway, musical theatre, hip hop, punk, folk, and jazz genres, as well as the work of New York born artists and those who are intimately connected with the city.
More information here https://www.intellectbooks.com/from-broadway-to-the-bronx

31/07/2024
by R. Kuchar
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Workshop-Event: Clubsterben – Sozioökonomischer Wandel und urbane Musikkulturen

Workshop on Venues and Clubculture

On Sept. 27th and 28th, 2024, ZPKM at University of Freiburg hosts a two-day workshop on topics about music venues and clubculture. The event focuses on the ‘death of venues’ and socio-economic transformation in urban music culture. Therefore, academics, practitioners and activists present and discuss current research, developments and socio-cultural conditions of livemusic culture in Germany. See programme:

Hosts: Prof. Dr. Michael Fischer & Lorenz Rommelspacher

Venue: Center for Popular Culture and Music, University of Freiburg

More information and registration here.

28/07/2024
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Music in Urban Tourism, Heritage Politics, and Place-Making

Edited by Séverin Guillard, Joseph Palis and Ola Johansson this book presents the second installment of the book series New Geographies of Music by Palgrave MacMillan. It offers an

– engaging overview of current discussions on urban music tourism & heritage politics
– features engaging global case studies and interdisciplinary analyses by global experts and
– spans the fields of urban and cultural geography, urban policy, heritage studies, music and media studies

The chapters address a range of issues, including how music shapes the “feel” of touristic towns and urban public spaces, how music scenes have an increasing role in heritage and tourism policies, and how this recognition of music has consequences on artistic practices and urban imaginaries.

More information you will find here https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-2072-9

16/04/2024
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Salford Seminars in Sound and Music – Examining the health of Manchester’s vibrant music scenes in 2024

Produced in partnership with the University of Salford and UK Research and Innovation, from April 18. – April 20. 2024 four panels of industry professionals, experts and musicians will debate pressing issues faced by Manchester’s music communities. Low Four Soundcheck will conclude with a live showcase and networking evening, and live-streamed Manchester music performances. Watch and have your say online or in-person.

More information here https://www.lowfour.tv/soundcheck

24/03/2024
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Urban Mediations: International Conference on the Narratives, Ecologies, and Poetics of the City

This international, interdisciplinary conference will take place in Hong Kong, 5-6 December 2024. The conference aims to uncover emergent frameworks and methods for the interpretation and analysis of literary, filmic, and cultural texts relating to the profound transformation of cities around the world across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

The starting point for discussion is cities in Asia and their dialogues with different cities in the world. While “urban” typically denotes a geographical location and its inhabitants, we use it to indicate a process and practice of co-existence. The urban, in this sense, is informed by socio-cultural, economic, ecological, political, and technological processes that may appear or aspire to be global but that are, in fact, diversely lived and experienced.

The framework “urban mediations” offers a way of thinking about “the urban” not as a bounded, stable object, but as an intermediary agency that is both specific to a particular milieu and connected to people and processes elsewhere. “Mediation” extends recent work on urban infrastructure – the physical systems of connectivity that keep cities moving – to include the social, affective, aesthetic, and material relations that bind the urban to itself and to myriad elsewheres. Like the urban, mediation “is not a stable thing but a way of seeing the unstable relations among dynamically related things.”

More information here https://rih.cuhk.edu.hk/news-and-events/cfp-urban-mediations-conf-dec2024/

25/02/2024
by R. Kuchar
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KISMIF Conference 2024 – Call open until March 15th

We are pleased to announce the seventh edition
of KISMIF International Conference ‘DIY Cultures, Democracy and Creative Participation’ (KISMIF 2024) which will take place in Porto, Portugal, between July 10 and 13 of 2024.

The submission of abstracts for this Conference is open to researchers, academics, activists and artists working in all areas of sociology, anthropology, history, cultural economics, cultural studies, geography, philosophy, urban planning, media and cognate disciplines such as design, illustration, popular music, film, visual and performing arts. This initiative follows the great success of the past six KISMIF Conferences (held in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2022) and brings together an international community of researchers, artists and activists focusing on alternative music-art scenes and do-it-yourself cultures.

This year´s edition marks the 10th anniversary of KISMIF!

More information at conference website.

18/02/2024
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Sustainable Cities and Cultures of Music

Music4Change invites papers, panels and workshops for the 2024 International Research School on the theme of Sustainable Cities and Cultures of Music to be held on 6th-8th November at the University of Groningen. During these three days we will explore new ways of researching cities in relation to sustainability within the realm of music in a variety of formats, including through workshops, sound walks, interactive performances, and papers. While cities prove essential entities for the development, cultivation, and transformation of musical cultures, institutions and practices, urban music-making also involves unprecedented challenges in the face of multiple global economic, environmental, and political crises. This research school seeks to explore the changing organization of musical values, activities, and preferences taking place within them. Further we seek to expand upon new and (re-)emergent musical practices to investigate more sustainable alternatives for live music performance spaces, and for media and preservation strategies, educational models, and health systems that encourage the proliferation of musical communities within and across livable, inclusive, and sustainable cities. During this international research school, we come together to explore research and innovations in the formation of sustainable musical cultures and communities, and to critically explore musical and sonic pathways towards more sustainable cities.

Themes relevant for this school may include:

Music and (post-)urban ecologies
Music media and sustainable production and reception platform
Music festivals and sustainable practices
Sustainable creativity, sonic fictions and the urban imaginary
Urban displacement, gentrification and responses to cultural / musical extractivism
Living archives and other forms of preserving critical musical practices of threatened musical communities and genres
Educational models which encourage environmentally, economically and/or socially sustainable music-making
Sustainable research methods & infrastructures for music & sound-based disciplines
Sustainable industrial and economic models for musicians and musical institutions
Sustainable music practices for health and care
Forms of urban engagement which draw attention to sustainability goals and issues
Acoustic sustainability, citizenship and DIY approaches to sustainability
Inclusive listening practices in urban settings
Sound mapping of cities in relation to ecology and biodiversity
Re-thinking music cities and communities in relation to mobility, nomadism and de-urbanization

More: https://music4change.eu/activities/international-research-school-2024/

15/02/2024
by Conference Documentation
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Conference “Home, Work and Music: Musical Practices in Domestic Spaces” ++ Vienna, Febr. 23rd/24th, 2024

This conference – Home, Work and Music – explores issues and debates centred around music in domestic spaces. It will showcase current research on the empirical, methodological and theoretical implications of centring the domestic in music research.

Domestic spaces are regularly overlooked in scholarly, sectoral and policy discourses, but their significance as entangled sites of music creation and performance, and the issues raised by their visibility are striking and urgent. From basements to bedrooms, domestic settings are key nodal points where personal lives, global digital infrastructures and creative networks meet. Scrutiny of the lived realities of these digitally porous sites affords critical insights into technological mediations of musicians’ creative labour in the home.

Date: 22 – 23 February 2024
Location: mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Fanny Hensel-Hall & Online

The conference is organized by a group of renowned international scholars and hosted by the Department of Music Sociology at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna:

Emília Barna, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Ingrid Tolstad, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Paul Harkins, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Rosa Reitsamer, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria
Nick Prior, University of Edinburgh, UK

More information on conference website.

For any enquiries regarding the programme and submissions, please contact: muscids2024@gmail.com