07/11/2017
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on KISMIF Conference 2018 – Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce the fourth KISMIF International Conference ‘Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! Gender, differences, identities and DIY cultures’ (KISMIF Conference 2018) which will take place in Porto, Portugal, between 3 July and 7 July 2018. This initiative … Continue reading
21/08/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on CfP: Global Trends in the Popular Culture and Nighttime Entertainment of European Cities, 1880s–1930s
The role that dance halls, cabarets and variety theatres, and cultural imports like the cakewalk, tango and jazz played in the rise of a pan-European and global commercial popular culture, has been addressed either from the perspective of a single … Continue reading
14/08/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on CfP: Music Tourism Convention By Sound Diplomacy
Music Cities Events is proud to present Music Tourism Convention. The world’s most extensive conference bringing together the music and tourism sectors to explore how music impacts, benefits and improves tourism offers, from festivals to heritage, music trails to food and … Continue reading
03/08/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on CfP: Marseille ? Naples : deux métropoles musicales transculturelles de Méditerranée
In addition to numerous other similarities, the Mediterranean cities Marseille and Naples offer very lively music scenes with significant parallels (and, of course, differences). Examples of comparable phenomena point to typical forms of popular song (“canzone napoletana”/”chansons deMarseille”), the close … Continue reading
12/07/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on CfP: Imagine Kingston as a Regenerative City
There are, in Kingston old quarters, a geography of dereliction, social discomfort and crime that rank this city in the top thirty in the world with respect to murder. However, this city is also a global cultural icon, the birthplace … Continue reading
03/04/2017
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Music Cities Edited Collection – Call for Chapter Proposals
From the physical spaces in which music activity takes place, to the mythologizing of city-specific music scenes, the city has long played a vital role in the development and sustaining of music scenes. In recent years there has been a … Continue reading
28/03/2017
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Symposium ‘Tourism and the Night’ – July 14-15th – London
Not only Music and City, but also relevant in this context: The Department of History, Sociology and Criminology, in conjunction with the Tourism and Events Research Group at the University of Westminster, are seeking papers for a two-day symposium on … Continue reading
15/12/2016
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Open until Dec. 16th: The Place of Music, 28-29 June 2017, Loughborough University
Call for papers It is almost twenty years since the publication of the landmark text ‘The Place of Music’ (Leyshon et al. 1998) put the complex relationships between music and place firmly on the research agenda. In those twenty years, … Continue reading
15/12/2016
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Sites of Interest: Exploring the Urban in Art Worlds, May 11th-13th, 2017 – Berlin
For the 2017 DGS Sociology of Arts meeting in Berlin, we invite papers researching the ways that cities shape art at different levels. The goal of this event is to share research and invoke dialogues about the ways that the … Continue reading
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