[Commlist] CfP (conference): Poetry, Music and Sound Art: Recent Medial Correlations

The third international and interdisciplinary conference of the ERC 
project /Poetry in the Digital Age/ on the topic /*Poetry, Music and 
Sound Art: Recent Medial Correlations*/ will take place on June 20-22, 
2024, at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg.

Poetry and music have been closely intertwined since ancient times. 
While the modern era has been largely dominated by print poetry, the 
“secondary orality” of audiovisual media and the “tertiary orality” of 
digital culture have brought about a resurgence of diverse oral and 
musicalized poetic forms. They span the range from recent avant-garde 
transformations of the traditional genres like the art song, to pop and 
rap lyrics, whose ever-increasing prominence demands an expanded concept 
of the poetic, to sound-based art forms that exist fully outside of 
music – such as sound installations or soundwalks – and offer 
fundamentally new possibilities for sonic settings of poetry. At the 
same time, the popularity of new oral poetry formats such as spoken word 
has brought renewed attention to the musicality of poetic speech and the 
role of vocal stylings in the performance and perception of poetry. The 
international and interdisciplinary conference /*Poetry, Music and Sound 
Art: Recent Medial Correlations*/ thus aims to explore how poetry is 
represented in musical and sonic forms in the digital age.

The conference is organised into two tracks, reflecting the reciprocal 
relationship between poetry and sound/music. Track 1 explores musicality 
inherent to current poetry: the ways sound and music are present in 
poetic texts, be it as an organising principle (through rhythm, 
intonation or form), or as subject matter. Conversely, Track 2 is 
dedicated to the various musical or sonic settings of poetry in the 
digital age: from contemporary art songs, to rap and experimental spoken 
word, to poetic sound installations.

The conference takes place in the framework of ERC-funded project 
/Poetry in the Digital Age/ (University of Hamburg). We welcome 
interdisciplinary contributions in German and English. Please submit 
your abstract (350 words) together with a short bio-bibliography (150 
words) to Vadim Keylin ((vadim.keylin /at/ uni-hamburg.de)) and Kira Henkel 
((kira.henkel /at/ uni-hamburg.de)) by September 29, 2023. The project covers 
accommodation in Hamburg for two nights and travel expenses 
(economy/second class). The papers will be published in a peer- reviewed 
edited volume (as a hardcover book and in open access with De Gruyter).

Please see full Call for Papers here: 
https://www.poetry-digital-age.uni-hamburg.de/en/veranstaltungen/tagungen/cfp-abstracts-tagung-sp2/cfp-poetry-music-and-sound-art.pdf

Conference website: 
https://www.poetry-digital-age.uni-hamburg.de/en/veranstaltungen/tagungen/sp2.html 


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