[ecrea] IASPM Canada 2017 CFP

*“A Place in This World”: Music and Belonging / Canada 150*

IASPM-Canada Annual Conference

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

May 25-27, 2017

Deadline for abstracts: November 30, 2016

In a queer dance club, a Black Lives Matter or Idle No More protest, at 
the Tragically Hip’s “farewell” concert this past August, in the context 
of Canadian confederation or elsewhere, music is a powerful means 
through which participants can enact a sense of belonging. Of course, as 
demonstrated by Brexit, the Syrian refugee crisis, celebrations of 
Canada’s 150th birthday (branded as “Canada 150”), and activism on 
behalf of murdered and missing indigenous women, any enactment of 
belonging also carries with it a series of struggles over who is 
included and excluded, over whose voice and experiences matter. Music is 
integral to these processes of inclusion and exclusion.

2017 marks the 150th year of confederation in Canada and thus the theme 
“Music and Belonging” is particularly resonant.  While we do not wish to 
limit the scope of

the conference to issues related to this anniversary, it does seem 
timely to trouble and interrogate themes of national identity and 
belonging. The very constitution of Canada is predicated on important 
debates of belonging where music was often the central aesthetic form 
(for example Jean-Baptiste Labelle’s 1868 /Cantate: La Confédération/ 
celebrated the union, while folksongs like “The Anti-Confederation 
Song,” from 1869, articulated some of the anxieties around forming a 
nation). More recently, music in Canada has provided a powerful means 
through which participants can enact a sense of belonging, whether to an 
affinity group, a political movement, or a nation.

Our theme encourages participants to explore questions of musical 
belonging in a wide range of contexts. How does music shape national 
belonging, particularly in Canada, a settler colonial nation with 
complex racial and language politics, as well as a music industry shaped 
by multinational forces? How does music shape communities and 
counterpublics on dance floors, concert venues, and parade routes? How 
do archives and methods shape our sense of what music matters? How does 
musical performance and policy draw boundaries around the human and 
between people?

Our questioning of music and belonging resonates with what it means to 
carry out music scholarship in Canada in the context of a joint meeting 
between the International Association for the Study of Popular Music - 
Canada Chapter (IASPM), the Canadian Society for Traditional Music 
(CSTM), the Canadian University Music Society (MusCan) and the Canadian 
Association of Music Librarians, Archives and Documentation Centers 
(CAML), May 25-27 at the University of Toronto. Each organization will 
develop its own program, but we will come together for some panels and 
plenaries to ask questions around the central theme of belonging. We are 
also collaborating with the North American chapter of PoP Moves 
("Performances of the Popular”), an international research group that 
focuses on popular dance, and so we encourage papers exploring the 
relationship between music, dance and belonging in popular culture.

We encourage questions of musical methods and methodologies as they 
relate to the themes of belonging, and research approaches working 
across diverse practices of ethnography, archival studies, textual 
analysis, and other types of analysis and critical investigation. Also, 
with Black Lives Matter Toronto and Toronto Pride as recent events 
encouraging debates over belonging and activism, we encourage papers 
that relate academic work to public spaces and engagement with diverse 
communities.

As this is our annual conference for IASPM-Canada, we also encourage 
proposals of any popular music topic, and we hope to include the widest 
array of scholarship in the field as possible.

Possible paper and panel topics might include:

   * /Sounds of belonging/
   * /Legal contexts: copyright, CanCon, communal ownership, and the 
courts/

   * /Music recording, production and cultural history/
   * /Popular music and dance: bodies on the dance floor /

   * /Fandom and musical communities/
   * /Politics of gender, ethnicity, and nationality (including “The
     Great White North”) /

   * /Live music! Dance and music in venues, festivals, local and
     transnational scenes/
   * /Music and 'silence': the absence of music or types of music, or
     various exclusions of marginalized voices/
   * /Materiality, value and belonging: museums, archives, collections/
Abstracts of individual papers, workshops, performances and other 
presentations should be no longer than 300 words. Panel submissions 
should include a title and abstract for the panel (300 word max.) as 
well as titles and abstracts for the individual papers on the panel. All 
abstracts for a panel should be submitted together. Abstracts will be 
adjudicated individually so it is possible for a panel to be accepted 
but not an individual paper.

Each abstract should also include a short biography of the author (100 
words max.) including the institutional affiliation and email address of 
each author. Each abstract should also include five keywords.

Submissions in French and English are acceptable. All submissions must 
be submitted as a single Word document with the author's last name as 
the document file name. Do not submit your proposal as a PDF File.

Proposals will be blind reviewed. The program committee consists of:

Mary Fogarty (Chair)

Christina Baade

Kate Galloway

Eric Hung

Maria Murphy

Mei-Ra St-Laurent

Papers will be limited to 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of 
questions. Other presentations will be limited to 60 minutes. All 
participants must be members of IASPM-Canada. Membership information is 
available on the following website: http://iaspm-ca/membership.

For questions about the conference, contact program chair, Mary Fogarty 
(maryf (at) yorku.ca <http://yorku.ca>), or local organizing chair, 
Robin Elliott (robin (dot) elliott (at) utoronto.ca <http://utoronto.ca>).

Submission deadline:  November 30th 2016


Send submissions to: iaspmcanada2017 (at) gmail.com <http://gmail.com>

Susan Fast
Professor, Department of English & Cultural Studies
Director, Graduate Program in Gender Studies & Feminist Research
McMaster University
1280 Main St. W
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M2

President, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, 
Canadian Branch, 2016-19

www.iaspm.ca <http://www.iaspm.ca>




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