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Music, Multiculturalism and the Postcolonial Condition
Summer school for doctoral candidates, Music Archive Finland, Helsinki 
3–4 July 2017

As global migration alters societal and cultural conditions, musical 
practices and environments transmute. The global postcolonial condition 
is indeed clearly visible and audible in myriad forms of music that 
evince the pervasiveness of racialisation, parochialism and banal 
nationalism, while at the same celebrating creative hybridity, 
multicultural authenticities and cultural encounters. Music provides a 
rich source and platform for postcolonial studies not only because of 
its identity politics but also on the grounds of its political economy, 
as demonstrated by the central role of music in global cultural 
industries and transnational labour arrangements.

To address these issues, as well as any other aspect of music and 
postcolonial studies, doctoral candidates working with relevant topics 
are hereby invited to participate in a summer school. In the summer 
school, all takes on and strands of multiculturalism and postcolonial 
studies are welcome, with no limitations as to the musical repertoire or 
geographical location. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• musical exoticism and other aesthetic aspects of sonorous, visual and 
corporeal musical postcolonialism;
• music in the riptides of national belonging and cultural hybridity;
• music and diasporic experiences;
• postcolonial music historiography.

As the aim of the summer school is to support the preparation of 
doctoral candidates’ theses, the working method consists of in-depth 
discussions on the basis of article or chapter drafts circulated in 
advance. The summer school will also include open lectures by the 
supervisors: Professor Tina K. Ramnarine, Adjunct Professor Antti-Ville 
Kärjä and Dr Elina Seye.

The summer school invites applications internationally, but as the 
number of participants is limited, doctoral students from the Nordic 
countries will be prioritised. The selection of participants will be 
based on the applications that should include, preferably in pdf:

• An abstract outlining the topic, approach and (tentative) findings of 
the paper to be presented; the length of the abstract should be 300–500 
words.
• A short presentation of the presenter and her/his overall research 
topic with its theoretical orientation, methods and materials; the 
maximum length of the presentation is 500 words.

Upon acceptance of the application, the participants will be asked to 
deliver a full article or chapter draft of 5000–8000 words, to be 
circulated amongst the participants well in advance. The deadline for 
the applications is 1 March 2017. Notifications of acceptance will be 
sent by 10 March, and the deadline for full papers is 5 June 2017.

The applications as well as all enquiries should be sent to summer 
school secretary Mr Jouni Eerola ((jouni /at/ musiikkiarkisto.fi) 
<mailto:(jouni /at/ musiikkiarkisto.fi)>).

The summer school is free of charge, comestibles included. Unfortunately 
there will be no financial support available for travels and 
accommodation. The summer school is organised by Music Archive Finland, 
the research project ”Music, Multiculturality and Finland” (funded by 
the Academy of Finland), and the Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology.

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