[ecrea] Soundtracks: Music, Tourism and Travel Conference and Call for Paper

*Soundtracks: Music, Tourism and Travel*

*6-9 July 2012, Liverpool, United Kingdom*

As an expression of culture, a form of intangible heritage, a signifier 
of place, and a marker of moments, music provides an important and 
emotive narrative for tourists. Indeed, it is increasingly difficult to 
imagine tourism 'in silence', outside of the scores and songs which 
accompany and punctuate journeys. From touristic performances of 
traditional dance, pilgrimages to the homes and graves of composers and 
singers, impromptu street entertainments, tours to concerts, attending 
festivals, to the sounds of the car radio, the travelling with ipods and 
the 'muzak' of hotel lifts, music can both activate and shape the 
journey, and passively permeate its duration. Music can both define and 
transcend the borders of destinations, emphasise and challenge notions 
of tradition, provide opportunities for liminal play, transgression and 
resistance and, help define the identities of visitors and the visited.

CALL FOR PAPERS

In this, the CTCC's 6th international research conference, and in the 
City of Liverpool famed for its popular music, we seek to explore the 
relationships between tourism, tourists and all forms/genres and 
sub-genres of music including: popular, classical, folk, dance, rock, 
jazz and hip-hop, across all cultures and continents. In the context of 
new and old global mobilities, we are interested in musical pilgrimage, 
the material and social flows of travellers and musicians, the cultural 
and economic policies that promote music tourism, festivals and 
performances for tourists, ethnographies of touristic encounters with 
music, the place of music in the representation of tourism destinations 
and, the role of music in the construction of tourist discourses, 
narratives and memories. As in previous events, the conference aims to 
provide critical dialogue beyond disciplinary boundaries and 
epistemologies and thus we welcome papers from the widest range of 
disciplines and fields including: anthropology, cultural geography, 
cultural studies, ethnology and folklore, history, heritage studies, 
landscape studies, leisure studies, museum studies, musicology and 
ethnomusicology, philosophy, political sciences, sociology, subaltern 
studies, tourism studies and urban/spatial planning.

We welcome innovative perspectives on all aspects of music and tourism. 
Key themes of interest to the conference include:

· Musical memory -- the role of music in narratives of touristic experience

· Fans, pilgrimage and performances -- motivations, behaviours and meanings

· The tourist's involvement in preserving and creating musical traditions

· Managing tourists at musical sites

· Musical imaginaries - representing places, peoples and pasts in music

· Dance tourism and embodied practices

· Designing ambience -- mobilising music in touristic spaces

· Music festivals as opportunities for tourist encounters

· Inspirations - travelling musicians

· Music as intangible heritage -- touring through traditions

· Challenging musical traditions -- tourist 'noise'

Please submit a 300 word abstract including title and full contact 
details as an electronic file to (ctcc /at/ leedsmet.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(ctcc /at/ leedsmet.ac.uk)>. You may submit your abstract as soon as 
possible but no later than November 21st 2012.

For further details on the conference please visit: 
http://www.tourism-culture.com/news_2.html or contact us at: CTCC, Leeds 
Metropolitan University, Bronte Building, Headingley Campus, Leeds LS6 
3QS United Kingdom. Email (ctcc /at/ leedsmet.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(ctcc /at/ leedsmet.ac.uk)>, Tel. +44 (0) 113 812 8541 or Fax +44 (0) 
113 812 8544

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Sebastien Martineau

CTCC

Project Assistant

Tourism & Entertainment Management

Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Metropolitan University

Brontë 206, Headingley Campus

Leeds LS6 3QS

United Kingdom

Phone +44 (0)113- 812 9239

Fax +44 (0)113- 812 8544
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For more information please visit www.tourism-culture.com 
<http://www.tourism-culture.com>