[ecrea] CFP: The 4th Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference 2014 in Chiang Mai (Thailand)

CFP: The 4th Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference 2014 in Chiang 
Mai (Thailand)

Date: 8-9 August 2014, (Friday-Saturday)

Venue: College of Arts, Media and Technology, Chiang Mai University, 
Chiang Mai, Thailand

Campus Map: http://www.camt.cmu.ac.th/en/contact.php

Organized by:

Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Group (IAPMS group),

College of Arts, Media and Technology, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Statement

We are pleased to announce the 4th Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies 
Conference, which will take place on August 8-9, 2014 in Chiang Mai, in 
collaboration with College of Arts, Media and Technology, Chiang Mai 
University, Thailand. Following the first conference in Osaka in 2008, 
the second conference in Hong Kong in 2010, and the third conference in 
Taipei in 2012, we move our next meeting to Thailand—hub of vibrant 
Southeast Asian popular music and music industry.

Founded in 2008, Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Group (IAPMS group) is 
a research network that at the moment includes 120 scholars not only in 
Asia but also in Europe, America and Oceania. Through its biennial 
conferences and related activities, the group provides a platform to 
foster scholarly conversations and collaborations arising from the 
growing academic interest in Asian popular music both inside and outside 
Asia.

CONFERENCE THEME (IAPMS·2014·Chiang Mai):

How to Perform ‘Inter-Asia’ Popular Music Studies

Nowadays, Asian popular music is strong and  serious investigation on it 
is growing, in the academy and elsewhere. More importantly, the cultural 
economy of popular music in Asia has become transnational or 
border-crossing in a literal sense. There are  quite a few case studies 
that show that the consumption and mediation as well as the production 
and distribution easily cross national borders.

However, most of ‘inter-Asia’ popular music studies restrict themselves 
to  a ‘national’ base. Most researchers are specialized in the popular 
music of one nation or language group and it has proven to be quite a 
challenge to adopt a truly ‘inter-Asia’ perspective. This perspective of 
comparative or cross-cultural research is unfortunately still  a 
somewhat distant ideal, with only a handful successful texts that light 
the way. Given this situation, is it enough for each researcher to write 
about his/her ‘own’ music and leave the comparison to the readers of a 
‘special issue’ or ‘edited volume’ that covers different ‘cases’? Or 
should we rather find out a‘collective’ or ‘collaborative’ approach to 
doing research and writing papers? How can it be done, when you do not 
have sufficient international connections, when there is no agreed upon 
vocabulary and periodization, when your time schedule or life cycle does 
not match? Finally, is collective or collaborative writing really necessary?

The 4th Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies conference will address the 
possibilities and difficulties of adopting an ‘inter-Asia’ perspective. 
We especially welcome papers that consider comparative and/or 
collaborative research, in the future as well as in the present. The 
conference engages with all the scholarly debates of the emerging fields 
of Inter-Asia popular music studies, in the following categories or streams:

Stream 1: Theory and Methodology
Stream 2: Production, Circulation and Consumption
Stream 3: History,Geography, Politics
Stream 4: Genre, Identity, Ideology

The organizer of Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference 2014 in 
Chiang Mai would like to invite paper presenters to send their abstract 
(not more than 250 words) to (iapms2014chiangmai /at/ gmail.com) before 25 
January 2014. Please don’t forget to write down the ‘stream’ in which 
you think your paper fits.

Please use the attached Proposal Form (right click to download) when 
submitting your proposal. Please use your surname as file name (ex. 
Chua.doc, Douglas.doc). If you plan to organize a panel with more than 
two people, please coordinate with the panelists to put all the 
necessary information on one form (e.g., panel title, paper titles, 
individual abstracts, panelists information). A panel description is not 
necessary.

Please email all inquiries to: (iapms2014chiangmai /at/ gmail.com)

2014.1.25 Deadline for abstract submission

2014.02.25 Acceptance of papers

2014.04.25 Registration

2014.07.25 Submission of full paper

2014.08.08-09 Conference Days



Organizing Committees

Viriya Sawangchot (API Fellow & Mahidol University, Thailand)

Siriporn Somboonbooran (Walailak University, Thailand)

Atchareeya Saisin (Chiang Mai University, Thailand)

Tunghung HO (Fu-jen Catholic University, Taiwan)

Eva TSAI (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

Anthony FUNG (Chinese University, Hong Kong/China)

Yoshitaka MORI (Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan)

Jeroen Groenwegen-Lau (Independent scholar, Netherlands-China)

Yukie HIRATA (Dokkyo University, Japan)

Sun JUNG (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Kai Khiun LIEW (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Aekyung PARK (Yonsei University, Korea)

Hyunjoon SHIN (Sungkonghoe University, Korea)

Jung-yup LEE (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA/Korea)



Notes

English is the only language in the conference as there is no common 
language among Asia language. Translation service can be provided only 
during Q&A, in case  the presenters need it.

For the updated information about submission, registration, 
accommodation, transportation etc, please keep visiting our website: 
http:www.interasiapop.org.
--
Hyunjoon Shin
Research Professor
Institute for East Asian Studies
Sungkonghoe University
1-1 Hang-dong, Guro-gu
Seoul 152-716
T) +82 (0)2 2610 4746 / M) +82 (0)10 2732 3241



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