The Music Cities Awards is a global competition designed to acknowledge and reward the most outstanding applications of music for economic, social, environmental, and cultural development in cities and places all around the world.Music Cities Awards virtual ceremony takes place … Continue reading →

The Social Science Research Council invites letters of interest from early-career researchers for year-long fellowships to conduct qualitative studies of arts organizations founded by and for communities of color in the United States. These fellowships will form part of the … Continue reading →

Sound Diplomacy announced its expansion into Latin America with the opening of an office in San José, Costa Rica. More https://mailchi.mp/sounddiplomacy/juli-2021-veroeffentlichung-studie-3296932?e=f5e5449c4f and https://www.sounddiplomacy.com/about.

Music and the City sets urban musical cultures within new global and cross-disciplinary perspectives. The series aims to open up new ways of thinking about music in an urban context, embracing the widest diversity of music and sound in cities … Continue reading →

This book edited by Darchen, Sebastien, Charrieras, Damien, Willsteed, John Analyses the influence of music city policies and planning oriented policies on the development of urban electronic music scenes Explores links between cultural policies and the built form mediated by … Continue reading →

Submissions are invited for ‘Urban Desires: Music and Nostalgia’, a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Music Review. The call is available here https://urbandesires.hcommons.org and a pdf version can be downloaded here: https://bit.ly/31RF30H.

Communicating the Arts Lausanne will take place September 27-29 2021. The conference wants to share best practices and develop new understandings about the growing contribution that cultural organisations are making to create better cities. Submission deadline for topics for Keynote … Continue reading →

Spaces of Musical Cultures: From Bedrooms to Cities19-20 March 2021mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, onlineAnton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna Austria Program and book of abstracts: Click to access BoA_SpacesofMusicalCultures.pdf

Based on case studies of Melbourne, Austin and Berlin, Andrea Baker’s publication is the first in-depth study to combine academic and industry analysis of the music cities phenomenon. Using four distinctly defined algorithms as benchmarks, it interrogates Richard Florida’s creative … Continue reading →