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30/11/2018
by Conference Documentation
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Urban Music Policies Day 2

Hi again,

Here comes a little overview from day 2 of our conference:

Beside the interesting keynote Susana Zapke (Vienna) gave us on ‘The City as Text, The City as Melodic Imaginary Subjectivation’, various panel sessions took place, for example on ‘The (In-)formality of Street Music’ or on ‘Power and Politics’. We also discussed ‘Affected scenes’ and ‘Hip-Hop Archives and New Civic Identities’. As you can see, it has been pretty diverse and everyone got a lot of inspiration for their work!

In the evening, we left the university and went to the music school for a special concert with a local band, Brass Riot, and the trio Ensemble Megaphon from the Global Board. Both acts delivered a powerful and vibrant performance and everybody finally got to relax after this long day.

Our program ended with an artist talk on ‘Music Making and how it is Affected by Place, Moving & Seeking Refuge’ and an open jam session afterwards, which was a great opportunity for everyone to get involved in a more practical approach to music.

Susana Zapke (Vienna): The City as Text, the City as Melodic Imaginary Subjectivation

 

Sebastian Matthias (Berlin): Groove me – Choreographic Groove and the City

 

Jhessica Reia (Rio de Janeiro): Street Music, Informality, and the Right to the City A Transnational Perspective

 

Foyer of Musikschule

 

Concert with Ensemble Megaphone

 

Concert with Brass Riot

 

Artist Talk: Music Making and how it is Affected by Place, Moving & Seeking Refuge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jam Session

28/11/2018
by R. Kuchar
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Thanks & Radio Feature ‘Groove the City’ – Conference

Dear all,

last weekend, we had a quite productive conference at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Thanks very much to everyone who was part of it making the conference to the successful event it was!

We´d also like to thank Alexander Budde from Deutschlandradio for visiting ‘Groove the City’. The radio feature he has produced for the German radio show ‘Tonart’ you can listen to here .

24/11/2018
by Conference Documentation
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Urban Music Policies Day 1

Dear City Groovers!

Here are some pictures from yesterday, our first conference day.

The first guest, Will Straw, gave a keynote on Urban Music as Policy Object, and then we had the possibility to hear some sessions by

our international experts on Rap Music, Cartography and many more interesting interdisciplinary approaches.

We are looking forward to what’s coming today, including our Jam Session that’s taking place at the Music School in Lūneburg at 6.30pm.

Stay tuned for more content!

Ulf Wuggenig – Dean Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Will Straw (Montreal, Canada): Urban Music as Policy Object.

Angela Fiore & Sara Belotti (Modena, Italy): Mapping the Este Court: Urban Soundscapes of a Ducal City (XVII cent.)

Luciana Ferreira Moura Mendonca (Pernambuco, Brazil):Soundscapes, Scenes and (Con)tradi(c)tions: Music and Public Action in Recife

07/11/2018
by R. Kuchar
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Book of Abstracts ‘Groove the City – Urban Music Policies between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance’

The Book of Abstract of our conference is completed! We are looking forward to “Groove the City” and invite you to have a look inside:

01/11/2018
by R. Kuchar
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Final Programme – ‘Groove the City’ – Urban Music Politics Between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance

We are very happy to announce the final programme of our conference in the end of November. Beside of the 3 Keynote speeches by Will Straw, Susana Zapke & Martin Cloonan, Groove the City conference will offer around 40 exciting paper presentations in order to discuss the field of Urban Music Studies. The conference´s special events will include the official Conference Dinner on the first night of the meeting, and on the evening of Nov. 24th, a ‘SessiOn Board’ concert and artist talk in cooperation with global board and Stiftung Niedersachsen. We are really lloking forward to three days of scientific, social and cultural exchange.

You can find the detailed conference programme here: Programme ‘Groove the City 2018’

Shortly we will also publish the conference´s book of abstracts.

20/09/2018
by Leonard Sprueth
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IASPM-US Conference / Call for Papers

For next years conference, the The International Association for the Study of Popular Music – United States will invite to New Orleans, Louisiana, March 7-10, 2019.

The Assosiaction calls for proposals for individual papers and panels on any aspect of popular music, those on the musical cultures of New Orleans; music in and of the global and local South; and music and race and resistance are especially welcomed. Thematically will be looked upon the topic of “Musical Cities: Music, Historiography, and Myth”. Possible Subdivisions here might include:

  • Cities, music, and race
  • Musical legends and apocrypha
  • Specific cities as places of musical genre origin
  • Space and place in music-making
  • New Orleans as a site of resistance, rebuilding, reconstruction, and gentrification
  • Intersectionality in musical cultures
  • Music and historiography in the context of global and local Souths
  • Religion and spirituality in musical cultures

As an interdisciplinary organization, IASPM-US is open to include work from different angles of view such as scholars of race, religion, sexuality, gender, geography, folklore, history and further more. The program’s committee consists of Kendra Preston Leonard (chair), John Dougan, Murray Forman, Shana Goldin-Perschbacher, Anthony Kwame Harrison, and Jennifer Stoever.

 

To find out more about formal & thematical requirements, click here!

28/08/2018
by R. Kuchar
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Preliminary Programme Online – ‘Groove the City’ – Urban Music Policies between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance

Hi there again,

after having opened registration for our conference yesterday, we are proud to announce that the preliminary programme of ‘Groove the City – Urban Music Policies between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance’ now is completed.

Have a look at Keynotes, Paper Sessions and Conference Events taking place from Nov. 23rd to 25th on the Programme Site.

Don´t forget to registrate until Oct. 15th! All information about registration you find here.

Hopefully see you in November!

The organizing committee

27/08/2018
by R. Kuchar
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Registration Open! ‘Groove the City’ – Urban Music Policies between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance

We are very happy to announce that registration for the 1st international conference of Urban Music Studies Network held from Nov. 23rd-25th, 2018 at Leuphana University of Lueneburg is open now. Until Oct. 15th you can register for conference participation and conference events. For each participant, we provide options regarding special requirements (e.g. child-care, barrier-free access).

Conference Fees are 120,00 € for Regular Participants (General Admission and Paper Presenters), 70,00 € for Students, Phd Students and Unemployed Scholars and  60,00 € for Day Tickets (valid on Friday or Saturday or Sunday).

Please make your registration here: https://www.conftool.org/groove-the-city-2018/

Shortly we will provide more detailed information about the conference programme and events on the conference website.

 

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 senses of space and place in audiovisual media.

Together we will explore how strategies for connoting space and place in film sound and music vary with cinematic practices across history and according to transnational patterns of negotiation between global and local modes of production. The focus is also set on mutually embodied insights into specific socio-historical contexts and the documentation of human geographies.

The conference aims to bring together scholars interested in mapping geographies of music and sound practices in audiovisual media (e.g. film, television, video games, interactive art). Cultural, ethnographic, historical, analytical, data-driven and aesthetic approaches are welcome, as well as research on industrial and commercial practices.

More information regarding speakers & paper addressing can be found here

Conference date and venue:
19-22 March 2019
Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage, University of Pavia (Cremona)