Call for Papers: Music and the Internet conference, University of Chicago and virtual, 9-10 June 2023

Music and the Internet (musicandtheinternet.co) is a hybrid, multi-day interdisciplinary conference that will take place virtually and at the University of Chicago June 9-10 2023.

From autoplaying videos to social media echo chambers, the 21st-century internet is a noisy place. The internet and online platforms have become increasingly entwined in both the music industry and in everyday musical activity, with music as both a shaped and shaping medium. Online music communities have emerged around net-native genres with distinct aesthetic, communicative, and meme-based conventions. Such developments have varied throughout the history of music on the internet, with reverberating effects in other online creative industries. Accordingly, a range of theoretical, practical, and ethical issues are in open (and often urgent) discussion for those studying these phenomena.

Horizons of Punk: Punk-Rock Scholarship and its Methodologies

A Collaboration Between Gustave Eiffel University (Laboratoire LISAA) and Punk Scholars Network UK & South Korea

When: 9^th June 2023

Where: Auditorium, Georges Perec Library, Gustave Eiffel University, Champs-sur-Marne, France

“The horizon is the range of vision that includes everything that can be seen from a particular vantage point […] A person who has no horizon is a man who does not see far enough and hence overvalues what is nearest to him. On the other hand, ‘to have a horizon’ means not being limited to what is nearby, but to being able to see beyond it.” (Gadamer, Truth and Method).

What are the horizons of punk-rock? What are the horizons of punk-rock scholarship? How are these horizons defined, and how do they operate in punk music, culture, and scholarship? As they evolve through time, history, and geography, what commonalities and contradictions emerge? 

Probing the Borderland
Between Popular Music and Literature

1-Day Symposium, Friday 9^th June 2023

Hosted by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France)

(Hybrid event)

Abstracts of 200 words should be sent, along with a short biography of no more than 100 words, to Catherine Girodet (catherine.girodet@univ-reims.fr) and Sylvie Mikowski (sylvie.mikowski@univ-reims.fr) by 15^th March 2023.

Messages of acceptance will be sent by March 29^th 2023.

Keywords: popular music, popular song, literature, song-writing, intertextuality, interartistry, aesthetic resonance, intermediality, hybridity, transformative space

Call for Papers: Soundscapes of ­the South
Macon, Georgia 
September 28-29, 2023

“Precisely how and why the American South has shaped and nurtured so much successful art is something sociologists and anthropologists will still be bickering about a half century from now,” Amanda Petrusich wrote in It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music (2008): “All I know is that it is mostly true.” Fifteen years on, her musical travelogue remains a vital exploration of the ways in which place may infl­uence “the sounds we make.”

Call for Papers: Innovation in Music Conference 2023
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InMusic23: Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK: 30 June, 1 & 2 July 2023

Innovation In Music celebrate their 10 year anniversary in 2023 and are excited to be heading to Edinburgh Napier University for our 10th year conference.

The InMusic23 conference theme is ‘You’re not supposed to do that’ with a focus on misuse and reuse; reimagining and repositioning; hybridisation and recontextualisation; and creating unique pathways and perspectives in music production, performance, technology and business.

Probing the Borderland

Between Popular Music and Literature

1-Day Symposium, Friday 9^th June 2023 

Hosted by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France)

(Hybrid event)

Abstracts of 200 words should be sent, along with a short biography of no more than 100 words, to Catherine Girodet (catherine.girodet@univ-reims.fr) and Sylvie Mikowski (sylvie.mikowski@univ-reims.fr) by 15^th March 2023.

Call for Papers
“You are beautiful, no matter what they say”
Sentimental Ballads in Popular Music

International Symposium
September 13-14, 2023, University of Siegen, Germany

Getting goosebumps while listening to “I Will Always Love You”, being moved to tears by “Un-Break My Heart”, being carried away by “Beautiful” – the sound of ballads may evoke affective as well as physical responses. Such somatic interactions with popular songs are apparently based on a common ground of cultural production of affect that parallels the cinematic “body genre” of melodrama (Meier 2008).