Urban Music Studies

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20/02/2019
by R. Kuchar
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Call for Papers: Music, Cities and Popular Memory: A “Very Messy Cultural Archive”? – March 29th, 2019, Solent University Southampton

The symposium seeks to explore current research and practice in a full range of sites and objects making up the “city as a very messy cultural archive” (Rao, 2009): – Public museums and archives; private collections of photographs, ticket stubs, … Continue reading

08/08/2018
by Leonard Sprueth
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XIV. Symposium zur Filmmusikforschung – Mapping Spaces, Sounding Places: Geographies of Sound in audiovisual Media

In collaboration with the Università di Pavia – Dipartimento di Musicologia e Beni Culturali, the Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung invites for a symposium of how sound design, film music and music editing in general exert a primary function in conveying … Continue reading

09/04/2018
by R. Kuchar
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Reminder & Update: Groove the City – Urban Music Policies between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance

We would like to remind you of the open call for our conference in November and are very happy to announce that we have been able to complete Keynote Speaker appearances for this first major event related to Urban Music … Continue reading

09/03/2018
by Sebastian Maier
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CfP: “Groove the City”

Urban Music Policies between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance International symposium of the Urban Music Studies Scholars Network in collaboration with the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Since Urban Music Studies are a lively field … Continue reading

25/02/2018
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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CfP: Making Cities, Cities in the Making: Moments of Arrival, Appropriation and Resistance

Open Penal at the 18th IUAES World Congress “World (of) Encounters: The past, present and future of anthropological knowledge” Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, 16-20 July 2018. Cities are not neutral sites in which people enter. They are … Continue reading

05/12/2017
by Sebastian Maier
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CfP: Mapping the Musical City – a Historically Savvy Symposium

This symposium, in association with the School of Advanced Studies, addresses mapping as both an object and method of musicological enquiry. Inspired in part by the “spatial turn” in the humanities at large and fuelled by the increasing accessibility of … Continue reading

28/11/2017
by Leonard Sprueth
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The Urban Research Plaza’s 16th Urban Culture Forum – Call for Papers

Happy to announce! Next years Urban Culture Forum puts special emphasis on the various aspects of Creative and Responsive Citizenship and the artistic approaches of promoting such. The Urban Research Plaza will hold its 16th edition on March 7th – 8th, … Continue reading