19/04/2021
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Submissions are invited for ‘Urban Desires: Music and Nostalgia’, a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Music Review. The call is available here https://urbandesires.hcommons.org and a pdf version can be downloaded here: https://bit.ly/31RF30H.
05/04/2021
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Communicating the Arts Lausanne will take place September 27-29 2021. The conference wants to share best practices and develop new understandings about the growing contribution that cultural organisations are making to create better cities. Submission deadline for topics for Keynote … Continue reading
06/03/2021
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Spaces of Musical Cultures: From Bedrooms to Cities19-20 March 2021mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, onlineAnton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna Austria Program and book of abstracts: https://www.mdw.ac.at/upload/MDWeb/ims/downloads/BoA_SpacesofMusicalCultures.pdf
23/01/2021
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Based on case studies of Melbourne, Austin and Berlin, Andrea Baker’s publication is the first in-depth study to combine academic and industry analysis of the music cities phenomenon. Using four distinctly defined algorithms as benchmarks, it interrogates Richard Florida’s creative … Continue reading
03/11/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Taking into account broader processes of urban regeneration, the new book by Robin Kuchar combines the appearance of a more and more commercialized live music culture and changing spatial strategies of DIY scenes to examine how originally DIY and Underground based … Continue reading
23/10/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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The Ninth Music Cities Convention will be held from 11th till 12th of November 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. One session of this virtual convention will be devoted to the topic Covid-19: The response of the Global Music City as … Continue reading
03/10/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Punk and ‘Post-Punk’ in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino and Tampere by Giacomo Bottà The book is a comparative study of deindustrialisation and popular music in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino, and Manchester. In these cities, during the late 1970s and early 1980s,punk and … Continue reading
17/09/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Call for papers The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic has had a strong impact on the sound of the places we live in, particularly as a consequence of the measures taken to stem the contagion. First of all, the lockdown … Continue reading
23/06/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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The aim of this international conference, which will take place between the 5-7 July 2020, is to explore space through music, approaching the history of the city via the notion of nostalgia. Full programme and details: https://www.ehess.fr/sites/default/files/appels/fichiers/urban_nostalgia5_6_2020.pdf Register via Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tRo1a9djSh2EIaPN7NWs0Q … Continue reading
18/05/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Sound Diplomacy presents in the Music Cities Resilience Handbook its visions about the recovery of the music scene after the COVID-19 global pandemic. More you can find here