02/05/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Sounding Out the Tourist City
Sounding Out the Tourist City is a three-year research project that seeks to explore the impact of tourism on everyday urban public ambiances, with a particular focus on the sonic ambiance. The meteoric rise of Lisbon as a major tourist … Continue reading
14/04/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on #StayHomeSounds by Cities and Memory
Cities and Memory is a global, collaborative sound art and mapping project that remixes the world, one sound at a time. The project covers more than 95 countries and territories with more than 3,500 sounds, and more than 650 contributing … Continue reading
28/03/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on MUSIC CITIES CONVERSATIONS by Sound Diplomacy
A new series of discussions with music cities professionals from around the globe, Music Cities Conversations will analyse the role of music in our lives and society, as well ways explore topics such as resilience, cultural governance, policy-making and creativity … Continue reading
12/03/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Urban Nostalgia: The Musical City in the 19th and 20th Centuries
The aim of this workshop, which will take place on the 3 July 2020 in Paris, is to explore space through music, approaching the history of the city via the notion of nostalgia. Call for Papers can be found here
23/02/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Book Series Urban Music Studies Launched
Call for Contributiones Intellect Books and the Urban Music Studies Scholars Network are delighted to announce the launch of a new book series Urban Music Studies. We are seeking innovative book-length contributions that explore the issues of music and the … Continue reading
06/01/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on 11th Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association Research Network Sociology of the Arts
The 11th Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association Research Network Sociology of the Arts will take place from 8-11 September 2020 in Helsinki, Finland. The deadline for paper, panel, roundtable and workshop submissions is February 15, 2020. The theme … Continue reading
05/11/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on This Must Be The Place – An Architectural History of Popular Music Performance Venues
This Must Be The Place by Robert Kronenburg is the first architectural history of popular music performance space, describing its beginnings, its different typologies, and its development into a distinctive genre of building design. More here
29/09/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue on The Arts and the City
This special issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs aims is calling for original papers that will empirically examine or conceptually extend the understanding of the connections between the arts and the city. The special issue will bring together scholars … Continue reading
25/08/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on CfP-Reminder Groove the City 2020 – Constructing and Deconstructing Urban Spaces through Music
The Call for Papers for the second international Urban Music Studies conference ”Groove the City 2020 – Constructing and Deconstructing Urban Spaces through Music” which will take place from the 13th to the 15th of February 2020 at the Leuphana … Continue reading
14/08/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Art and Economics in the City
Emerging forms of alternative economic frameworks are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between centre and periphery, and the social dynamics in the urban fabric. In this context, the arts can play a crucial role in formulating a … Continue reading