[Commlist] CfP: Global South Popular Music Perspectives - Symposium

Call for Papers

Symposium presented by Screen & Sound Cultures, RMIT, Melbourne

*Global South Popular Music Perspectives*

*Date: Friday 28 February, 2020*

Presentations from 9am to 5pm at the Garden Building, Bowen Street 
(above Streat Café), RMIT, with lunch provided, followed by DJ/VJ event 
at Loop Project Space & Bar featuring symposium participants.

Seeking papers from researchers to be presented on popular music-making 
and performance from the perspective of the ‘Global South’.  We are also 
soliciting presentations from musicians, producers, DJs, and sound 
system operators.

*Submit abstracts of 300 words to:(moses.iten /at/ student.rmit.edu.au) 
<mailto:(moses.iten /at/ student.rmit.edu.au)>by 15 January 2020*

The term “Global South” is deployed in scholarly discourses concerned 
with various connotations and critiques. We use it broadly here to refer 
to the nations and regions which had previously been called the 
“Developing” or “Third World”. These are all contested terms, which we 
encourage participants to address. This symposium also recognises that 
popular music can travel across borders more freely than its producers, 
and this creates both positives and negatives which must be carefully 
considered.

In the 21st century, in line with developments that are technological, 
political, and economic, there has been a growing scholarly interest in 
the diverse cultural industries of the Global South, especially in 
popular music. To mention a few examples of known musical genres 
associated with the ‘Global South’, scholars have researched Bollywood, 
K-Pop, Reggae, Reggaeton, Kuduro, and Cumbia and the contexts in which 
they are situated.

This symposium is an opportunity to bring together researchers from 
multiple fields with practitioners to foster inter- and 
intra-disciplinary discussion, and examine multiple approaches to 
researching popular music and the Global South.

Topics to be covered can include -- but are not limited to:

● music production techniques / technologies

● DiY / tinkering practices

● band cultures of the Global South

● Music and cinema

● Political economy of popular music industries

● Popular music media

● Music-making amongst the diaspora

● Institutionalised popular music industries vs the informal sectors

● Issues of gender and sexuality within the popular musics of the Global 
South

● Networking and collaborations (social media platforms)

● Media ecologies surrounding the music scenes (i.e. socio-cultural 
contexts and

political economies)

● Transnational collaborations and encounters (e.g.musical cultural 
exchange,

cultural diplomacy, touring in the Global South)

● Cultures of sampling and repurposing sounds

● Development policy and music industries

● De-westernizing creative labour studies

The durations of presentations will be 20 mins (max). Multi-media 
presentations that

include sound and video are encouraged.

Researchers outside Melbourne are encouraged to apply, but unfortunately 
we are unable to offer travel stipends or other financial support. The 
event will be free to attendees.

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