Urban Music Studies

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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

28/07/2024
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Music in Urban Tourism, Heritage Politics, and Place-Making

Edited by Séverin Guillard, Joseph Palis and Ola Johansson this book presents the second installment of the book series New Geographies of Music by Palgrave MacMillan. It offers an – engaging overview of current discussions on urban music tourism & … Continue reading

16/04/2024
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Salford Seminars in Sound and Music – Examining the health of Manchester’s vibrant music scenes in 2024

Produced in partnership with the University of Salford and UK Research and Innovation, from April 18. – April 20. 2024 four panels of industry professionals, experts and musicians will debate pressing issues faced by Manchester’s music communities. Low Four Soundcheck … Continue reading

24/03/2024
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Urban Mediations: International Conference on the Narratives, Ecologies, and Poetics of the City

  This international, interdisciplinary conference will take place in Hong Kong, 5-6 December 2024. The conference aims to uncover emergent frameworks and methods for the interpretation and analysis of literary, filmic, and cultural texts relating to the profound transformation of … 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

12/02/2024
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Resonant Fabrics – Listening to Urban Worlds

Soundscapes profoundly connect listeners to the places they inhabit and thereby reveal the vibrant and resonant fabrics that lie beneath the delineated spaces of visual representation. In Resonant Fabrics, Marvin Heine explores and celebrates the many-layered and ambiguously undulating sense- … Continue reading