14/04/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on #StayHomeSounds by Cities and Memory
Cities and Memory is a global, collaborative sound art and mapping project that remixes the world, one sound at a time. The project covers more than 95 countries and territories with more than 3,500 sounds, and more than 650 contributing artists.
Every field recording in the project has been recomposed and reimagined by artists around the world to create a new, alternative world of sound – you can listen via the sound map or our podcast.
More here
28/03/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on MUSIC CITIES CONVERSATIONS by Sound Diplomacy
A new series of discussions with music cities professionals from around the globe, Music Cities Conversations will analyse the role of music in our lives and society, as well ways explore topics such as resilience, cultural governance, policy-making and creativity in relation to the challenges the world is facing today.
More here
12/03/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Urban Nostalgia: The Musical City in the 19th and 20th Centuries
The aim of this workshop, which will take place on the 3 July 2020 in Paris, is to explore space through music, approaching the history of the city via the notion of nostalgia.
Call for Papers can be found here
23/02/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Book Series Urban Music Studies Launched
Call for Contributiones
Intellect Books and the Urban Music Studies Scholars Network are delighted to announce the launch of a new book series Urban Music Studies.
We are seeking innovative book-length contributions that explore the issues
of music and the city in line with the series’ objectives.
More here: Urban Music Studies Flyer_2020
11/02/2020
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Groove the City 2020 – Book of Abstracts Online
Two days until this year´s conference is gonna happen. Just in time, we completed the Book of Abstract comprising descriptions of all talks and paper presentations.
Access pdf here.
See you to Groove the City!
30/01/2020
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Groove the City 2020 – Final Programme and Registration Reminder
Two weeks to go until ‘Groove the City 2020 – Constructing and Deconstrucing Urban Spaces Through Music’ is going to happen! Today we are very glad to announce that the final programme of our conference is online. Check all of the 70 lectures and sessions here.
We´d also like to remind you that registration is open until Feb. 6th. If you like tp be a part of the Urban Music Studies Scholar’s Network’s second international conference, just groove on and register at https://www.conftool.org/groove-the-city-2020
09/01/2020
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Groove the City 2020 – Conference Programme and Registration Online
The second international conference of the Urban Music Studies Scholars´Network is fastly approaching. We are very pleased to announce that the preliminary programme is out now! Around 80 lectures, paper presentations and workshops awaiting you from Febr. 13th to 15th, 2020. Browse the full programme here.
Registration for the conference is open until Febr. 6th, 2020. Register online at www.conftool.org/groove-the-city-2020
See you at ‘Groove the City 2020 – Constructing and Deconstring Urban Spaces Through Music’!
06/01/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on 11th Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association Research Network Sociology of the Arts
The 11th Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association Research Network Sociology of the Arts will take place from 8-11 September 2020 in Helsinki, Finland. The deadline for paper, panel, roundtable and workshop submissions is February 15, 2020. The theme of the ESA-Arts 2020 conference is “The Social Effects of Art: Activism, Advocacy and Beyond.
More you can find here
05/12/2019
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Keynote Lectures Groove the City 2020
We are very happy to announce the keynote lectures for our conference Groove the City 2020 – Constructing and Deconstructing Spaces through Music from Feb. 13th – 15th at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
Sara Adhitya (University College London) will give a talk about Composing Urban Rhythms – from theory to practice. Alejandro Mercado (National Autonomous University of Mexico) will hold his lecture about Fluid Urban Spaces of Music Scenes. The third keynote Genre as Netdom: Cultural and Social Networks in Place will be given by Jennifer C. Lena (Columbia University New York).
Shortly we will publish the whole conference programme here. Registration is going to be open before long as well.
05/12/2019
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on CfP KISMIF Conference 2020 – DIY Cultures and Global Challenges
From July 8th to July 11th, the 5th edition of the KISMIF Conference will be held in Porto. The conference will be preceded by a Summer School on July 7th, 2020.
Thematical focus of KISMIF 2020 will be the discussion of ‘DIY Cultures and Global Challenges’.
The Call for papers is open until Feb. 15th, 2020.
See the full CfP for KISMIF 2020 here. The call for the Summer School can be accessed here.
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