Programme

The Keynote Speakers of Groove the City 2020 are:

Sara Adhitya (University College London)

‘Composing Urban Rhythms – from Theory to Practice’

Thursday Febr. 13th, 2020 – 10.30h

Dr. Sara Adhitya is a Research Fellow with the Accessibility Research Group at University College London, as well as the co-director and lead urban designer of its Universal Composition Laboratory which addresses the multisensorial design of urban environments in space-time. Informed by a multidis-ciplinary background in architecture and urban de-sign, music and sound design, and health and wellbeing, her research-by-design work focuses on how sound and music practices can improve the quality of urban design. She collaborates with research institutes, non-profit organisations, governments and communities around the world to help make our cities more liveable and sustainable. Sara is author of Musical Cities: Listening to Urban Design and Planning.

Alejandro Mercado (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico)

‘Fluid Urban Spaces of Music Scenes’

Saturday Febr. 15th – 11.30h

Alejandro Mercado is Full Professor and coor-dinator of the Area of Global Studies at the Research Center on North America at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He holds a phd in Urban Planning from the University of Califor-nia LA. His line of research is in the field of local and regional development and creative and cultural industries. His latest publications related to the studies of Music and the City are the book in press Studies of urban night and night economy in the cities of Mexico, the United States and Canada and articles like Urban geography of music scenes in the US-Mexico Border. The case of the cities of Tijuana and San Diego or Spatial patterns of nighttime consumption: the case of alternative popular music in Mexico City.

Jennifer Lena (Columbia University New York)

‘Genre as Netdom: Cultural and Social Networks in Place’

Friday Febr. 14th – 16.30h

Jennifer C. Lena is a cultural sociologist who studies classification, particularly the organizational and institutional conditions for the creation, modification, or elimination of cultural categories like genres. She holds an MA, MPhil, and PhD in Sociology from Columbia University and currently works as an Associate Professor of Arts Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is co-editor of the journal Poetics, and co-editor (with Fre-derick Wherry and Greta Hsu) of a book series, Culture and Economic Life, published by Stanford University Press. Among many articles and contributions, Jennifer is author of the books Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts and Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music.

Full Conference Programme

Thursday February 13^th, 2020

From 9.00h	Ground Floor	Arrival and Registration
10:00 – 10:30h	Higher-Space C40.704	Welcome Speeches Welcome by Organizing Committee and Faculty
10:30 – 12:00h	Higher-Space C40.704	Plenary Lecture: Sara Adhitya (London) Composing Urban Rhythms – from Theory to Practice Host: Alenka Barber-Kersovan
12:00 – 13.00h	6^th Floor	Lunch
13.00 – 14.30h		Parallel Sessions I
	Airy Space C40.601	Ia: Urban Soundscapes and Background Sounds Luciana Ferreira Moura Mendonça Hearing Urban Soundscapes: Methodological Insights and Rhythmanalysis Ihsanul Ihthisam Sounding Islam in Malabar: Mappila Songs in The Indian Ocean Soundscape Meri Kytö Who listens in the Urban Soundscape? Tactics for Background Music Chair: Rosa Reitsamer
	Lower Space C.40.501	Ib: Creating Urban Music Spaces Arno van der Hoeven & Erik Hitters The Spatial Value of Live Music_ Performing, (RE)Developing and Representing Urban Space Constantin Alexander Brutalist Beats. A Transdisciplinary and Creative Approach to Modern Architecture Sarah Defoin-Merlin Shanghai: A Chinese City Planned and Appropriated through Vocal Music Chair: Volker Kirchberg
14.30-15.00h	6th Floor	Coffee Break
15.00-16.30h		Parallel Sessions II
	Airy Space C40.606	IIa: Music on the Streets Vicky Ho Street Music and Urban Experiences: Field Study of the Busking Scene of Hong Kong Melanie Ptatschek Music under New York: Social Functions of Busking in Subway Stations Vivian Doumpa & Alexandra Karamoutsiou ‘It is as if Music has conquered the City and the Streets Today’: Street Parade, an Event that cracked the Space, Time and Function of the City Chair: Pranoo Deshraju
	Lower Space C.40.501	IIb: Clubs and Venues as Bottom-Up Spaces Lukas Drevenstedt Club Culture – Deconstructing of a Multifaceted Urban Phenomenon Robin Kuchar Underground Music Venues – From Free to Taken Over Spaces Juho Petteri Hänninen The Implication of DIY Places in Helsinki in the 2000s: Operation Models, Meaning for Scene Participants and Consequences for the City Chair: Paula Guerra
16.30 – 18.00h		Parallel Sessions III
	Higher Space C.40.704	IIIa: Action between Music Production and Musical Experience Craig Hamilton / Nicholas Gebhardt Mobilising Festival Audiences Ana Oliveira / Paula Guerra From Lisbon to the World: DIY Careers in the Portuguese Independent Music Scene Adrian Debattista The Independent Music Scene in Malta: Interpreted Realities and Polic Imaginaries Chair: Luciana Mendonca
	Lower Space C.40.501	IIIb: Music between Protest and the ‘Urban Cool’ Jonas Baes New Music and the Politics of Space: ‘Patangis-Buwaya’ and the Transformation of Landscape in Philippine Modernity Lisa Gaupp Listening to the Street – Urban Sounds in Hamburg-Altona between the ‘Right to the City’ and the ‘Creativity Dispositif’ Ben Assiter ‘From Bagley´s to Spiritland’: Listening Practices, Sociability and the Auditory Politics of Gentrification Chair: Thomas Köhn
18.00h	Airy Space C40.601	Exhibition Opening: Finnish Punk Fanzines 1977-1982 compiled by Juho Hänninen Exhibition, Bar & Fingerfood
19.00-20.30h	Higher Space C 40.704	Evening Panel: Appreciation or Appropriation of the Arts? American and European Perspectives Panel Discussion with Jennifer C. Lena & Hans Abbing Host: Volker Kirchberg
until 21.30h	6^th Floor	Bar & Informal Exchange

Friday February 14^th, 2020

9:30 – 11.00h		Parallel Session IV
	Airy Space C40.601	IVa: The City as Raver Space Beate Peter Manchester and its Rave Heritage: The Lapsed Clubber Audio Map Dragana Kostica Techno and the City: When Electronic Music Shapes the Urban Identity Nien-ying Wang Electronic Dance Music, Urban Space and Local Identity in Hou Hsiao-hsien´s Millenium Mambo Chair: Rosa Reitsamer
	Lower Space C40.501	IVb: Music as Audiospheres and Heritage Justina Ewa Anders-Morawska The Politics of Urban Audiosphere – Sonic Urbanism and Urban Sound Design – Who should have a Voice? Ruchika Rai Migration Songs: A Living Museum in City Spaces Chair: Lisa Gaupp
11.00 – 12.30h		Parallel Sessions V
	Higher Space C40.704	Va: Sociocultural Impacts of Live Music and Music Scenes Pedro Mendes Challenging Social and Geographical Barriers through Musical Activity: The Case OS Monstros in late Colonial Lourenco Marques Ina Kahle How Music Festivals contribute to the Socio-Ecological Transformation Shane Homan ‘Seismic Victory’?: Live Music, Environmental Laws and the ‘Agent of Change’ Principle Chair: Monika Schoop
	Airy Space C40.601	Vb: Music as Expression of Fear & Hope Amanda Black Masked Sounds: Acousmatic Violence and Securization of a City Gul Bahar Shah & Arshi Showkat Articulation of Trauma in Kashmir through Indigenous Folk Theater ‘Bandpather’ Dianne Violeta Mausfeld ‘The Radio won´t play you, but the Neighborhood will’ – Chicano Rap, Space & Identity in LA, 1980s & 1990s. Chair: Luciana Mendoca
	Lower Space C40.501	Vc: Music Spaces and Politics in the Global South Paula Guerra The Revolution is now in the Global South: Sonic Identities and DIY Cultures as Form of Political and Social Resistance in the Cities Mariia Mykhalonok Medellin: Rebranding the City Through Music Olateju Olajide Rap Music as a Tool for Socio-Political Change in Africa, Nigeria in Perspective
12.30 – 13.30h	6^th Floor	Lunch
13.30 – 14.30h		Parallel Sessions VI
	Higher Space C40.704	VIa: Music as Space of (Gender-) Identities Abhijeet Singh Understanding the Contradiction through Music: A Study of Hypermasculinity among Hindus Pranoo Deshraju Masculinity at the Margins: The ‘Gully’ in the Metropolis Chair: Thomas Köhn
	Airy Space C40.601	VIb: Visual Spaces of Music Alicja Sulkowska ‘Say Hello to my Hope World’: Towards the Visual Topography of K-Pop Aesthetics Joao Ricardo Mateus How Elysia Crampton´s Work Reshapes the Aymara Legacy Chair: Paula Guerra
	Lower Space C40.501	VIc: Challenged, Survived and Spontaneously Emerging Spaces of Music Sajna Sudheer DEVADASIS – The Custodians of Traditional Indian Music who Survived through Spaces and Time in History Michal Smrčina Candrbáls: Mapping Spontaneous ‘Folk’ Musical Events across a City
14.30 – 16.00h		Parallel Sessions VII
	Higher Space C40.704	VIIa: Opera Houses as Icons of Music Architecture Alenka Barber-Kersovan Cultural, Economic and Symbolic Dimensions of Musical Starchitecture Ayça Sancar Performing the Nation-State: Opera Architecture, Cultural Politics and the City in Early Republican Turkey Solène Scherer An Extramuros Communion: Playing and Performing around the Vienna State Opera Chair: Volker Kirchberg
	Airy Space C40.601	VIIb: Music, the City and Notions of Ideologies Marek Jeziński Listening to the City // Looking to the City. Constructing Urban Ecology and the Ideological Dimension of Music and Architecture Marko Zubak KSET & (Yugoslav) Socialist Club Culture Chair: Pranoo Deshraju
	Lower Space C40.501	VIIc: Music and the Changes of Urban Space William Straw Models of the Musical City Felix Fuhg Did the Planners Dream went wrong? Urban Change and Music Culture in Post-War London Paula Guerra & Pedro Menezes Sound, Time and Space: The Indie Rock Scene of Fortaleza rethinks the City, its Past and its Present Chair: Robin Kuchar
16.00-16.30h	6^th Floor	Cake & Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00h	Higher Space C40.704	Plenary Lecture Jennifer C. Lena Genre as Netdom: Cultural and Social Networks in Place Host: Volker Kirchberg
19.00 – 22.00h	Trattoria de Flaviis	Conference Dinner

Saturday February 15th, 2020

9.30 – 11.00h		Parallel Sessions VIII
	Airy Space C40.601	VIIIa: Sounds from Urban Margins – Politics of Refugees and Outsiders Pedro Belchior Nunes ‘We don´t have a Name for It’: Batida do Gueto and Principe Discos as a Case Study of Success among EDM Labels Marc Brooks Noisy Terraformations of the Black City in the TV Series ‘Luke Cage’ Pedro Miguel Carvalho Ferreira You Give Love a Bad Name Chair: Susana Zapke
	Lower Space C40.501	VIIIb: Music as Governed Spaces? Jhessica Rheia Party the Night Away: Independent Electronic Music and Urban Governance in Rio de Janeiro Ulfried Reichardt Dmitri Shostakovich´s Leningrad Symphony: Destruction, Resistance, and the Meaning of Music Tomoko Takaoka For whom the Rap exists? Social Integration, Leitkultur, Musikvermittlung Chair: Volker Kirchberg
11.00 – 12.30h	Higher Space C40.704	Plenary Lecture: Alejandro Mercado Fluid Urban Spaces of Music Scenes Host: Lisa Gaupp
12.30 – 13.30h		Lunch
13.00 – 15.00h		Parallel Session IX
	Airy Space C40.601	IXa: The Viennese Prater: Musical Representation of a Liminal Sociopolitical Space Kathrin Raminger The Working Class’ Conquest of the Prater in the course of the May Day Parades Susana Zapke The National Socialist appropriation of the Prater (1938–1945) Wofgang Fichna Fluc and Electronic Resistance Chair: Alenka Barber-Kersovan
	Lower Space C40.501	IXb: Grabbing the Moment – Sounds of Urban Histories Shankhadeep Chattopadhyay Spatializing the Musicking of an Expressive Urban Imagination: A Trans-Cultural Evaluation of the Early Modern Rock Music of Bengal Sigrun Lehnert From Rubble to Modernism: The Sound of the ‘Economic Miracle’ in German Cities of the 1950s and 1960s Lorenzo Santoro Estate Romana: Redrawing the Emotions of a Capital City. The New Meanings of Musical Performance in 1970s Rome Chair: Will Straw
15.00 – 16.30h		Parallel Session X
	Airy Space C40.601	Xa: Musical Heritage and the Changing of Urban Soundscapes through Digitalization Dagmar Brunow Audiovisual Meomory and Placemaking in the Music City: Salford Lads in the Digital Era Eva Schurig Effects of and Reasons for Listening to Mobile Music in Cities Jan-Oluf Gullö & David Thyrén Challenging Changes for Future Music Production Chair: Monika Schoop
	Lower Space C40.501	Xb: The Urbanisation of Folk Traditions and Festivities Ondřej Daniel ‘The Different City Experience’: Same Old Song? Pedro Filho Amorim Other Parties: Rhythmanalysis og Musical Venues in the Fringes of Carnival Industry Torsa Saha The Urbanisation of Bangla Popular Music: Suman Chattopadhyay’s Early Songs Chair: Pranoo Deshraju
16.30-17.00h	6^th Floor	A Coffee before Goodbye
17:00-18.30h	Airy Space C40.601	Concluding Remarks and Urban Music Studies Network Meeting Conference review, discussion of next steps: book series ‘Urban Music Studies’ & further events