Urban Music Studies

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08/12/2025
by R. Kuchar
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Call for Papers: KISMIF Conference 2026, July 8th-11th, University of Porto

KISMIF is coming! From July 8th-11th,2026,the next edition of KISMIF-conference will be held in Porto. The thematic focus is set around ‘DIY Cultures,Global Uncertainty and Critical Imagination’. The submission of abstracts for this Conference is open to researchers, academics, activists … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

30/10/2022
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Vienna Perspectives ― Art, Urban Space and Social In-/Equality

An international Scholars‘ Study Session in the framework of the series Groove the City – Urban Music Studies and Digital Humanities Artistic interventions in public space, the relocation of cultural events and festivals from the city center to the outskirts … Continue reading

28/03/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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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
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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

09/01/2020
by R. Kuchar
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Groove the City 2020 – Conference Programme and Registration Online

The second international conference of the Urban Music Studies Scholars´Network is fastly approaching. We are very pleased to announce that the preliminary programme is out now! Around 80 lectures, paper presentations and workshops awaiting you from Febr. 13th to 15th, … Continue reading