Urban Music Studies

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25/08/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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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

17/06/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Call for Papers | Sustainable Art Cities and Tourist Attractions: Coping with Overtourism and Promoting Revitalisation

A special issue of the open access Journal Sustainibility This special issue opens the debate on new perspectives on the economics and management of tourism, especially cultural tourism, how sustainability challenges (e.g., overtourism, revitalization) have been addressed. We invite both … Continue reading

25/03/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Music, Heritage, People and Place – Home of Metal Symposium and Workshop

Call for Papers Home of Metal (HoM) is a heritage project created and led by the Capsule organisation. Launched in 2011, supported by volunteers, building a crowd-sourced archive and curating a range of popular public events in Birmingham and the … Continue reading

13/03/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CKC 2019

In July 2018, the Digital Cultures Research Centre at the University of the West of England convened the first Creativity, Knowledge, Cities (CKC) Conference to critically explore the tensions between the creative sector, cities and universities. We invite scholars to build … Continue reading

06/03/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Sonic Futures: Performing Identity in the ‘Global’ City

The idea for this one-day conference, taking place on the 25th of April 2019, stems from a series of workshops, Sonic Futures: Identity and Sustainability through Music and Performance, supported by London College of Communication (Teaching and Learning Fund) in … Continue reading

01/03/2019
by Timon Scheuer
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!Save the date: Feb 13th-15th, 2020 // Groove the City II conference!

We are very happy to announce the next edition of our Groove the City conference: From Feb13th-15th, 2020 the international community of urban music studies will again meet in the North of Germany close to Hamburg in Lueneburg, this time … Continue reading

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