[ecrea] CFP - Sites of Popular Music Heritage

*SITES OF POPULAR MUSIC HERITAGE -- SYMPOSIUM*
Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool
8--9 September 2011
*_EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS_*

We invite proposals from a broad range of academic disciplines for a 2 
day symposium examining sites of popular music heritage: from 
institutions such as museums, to geographic locations, websites and 
online archives. Papers are welcomed that explore popular music within 
narratives of heritage and identity, real and imagined geographies, 
cultural memory and contested histories. The event will focus on three 
thematic areas: *
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*Popular Music Heritage in the Museum*
In recent years museums have increasingly engaged with popular music 
heritage, as evidenced in a proliferation of exhibitions including those 
in the UK such as Kylie: The Exhibition at the V&A and the British Music 
Experience at the O2. Museum interaction with popular music heritage 
enables methods of narration beyond traditional written histories, 
engaging visitors with objects, sounds and images. The place of popular 
music in the museum raises issues of how music is both represented and 
used to represent and explore social histories, personal and collective 
identities, memories, and geographies. Possible themes for papers include:
- Popular music and locality in the museum
- Disseminating popular music heritage in museums beyond text
- History and memory in popular music exhibitions and collections ***

Heritage, Place and Local Identity*
While ideas of heritage and cultural memory play an increasingly 
important role in popular music historiography, the spatial and 
geographic frameworks underpinning the production of popular music 
histories remain comparatively under-examined in studies to date. The 
spatial embedding of popular music heritage raises questions as to the 
ways in which ideas of local, regional and national identity are shaped 
by geographies of music and place; the role of mobility practices in the 
production of local music histories; and the capacity for popular music 
memoryscapes to stimulate (and sustain) embodied and emotional 
attachments to places and localities. Possible themes for papers include:
- Contested geographies of popular music heritage
- Routes of popular music heritage: mobility, migration, wayfinding
- Cartographies of popular music history * *
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Digital Archives and Online Practice*
Heritage practices have proliferated in the digital age and a large part 
of related activity online is devoted to popular music. 'Authorised' or 
otherwise, social media groups, blogs and web pages are organised and 
defined by, amongst other things, genre, artist, period and geography. 
Sites dedicated to the popular music of Birmingham, Manchester, 
Sheffield, Coventry, Bristol, Woolongong, Brisbane or Detroit speak 
simultaneously to the hyper-local and global quality of popular music 
culture. The nature of such online practices raise questions about the 
ontology of the archive, the digital 'artefact' and collective memory. 
In light of the challenges presented to the music industries by 
digitisation, key questions concern the role of music and related 
intellectual property in online 'folk' histories. Possible themes for 
papers include:
- Authorising popular music heritage and archiving practice online
- Building music cultures and communities of memory online
- Online music heritage, music industries and ownership

*Confirmed Keynote Speakers:*
Andy Bennett, Professor in Cultural Sociology, Griffith University, 
Australia
Philippe Le Guern, Professor of Sociology of Culture, University of 
Avignon, France.

Please submit proposals for papers (300 words max) to Dr Rob Knifton 
((robert.knifton /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) <mailto:(robert.knifton /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)> 
) and Dr Les Roberts ((les.roberts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(les.roberts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>).

Extended deadline for abstracts: *31 May 2011*
Date for registration: *30 June 2011*
Deadline for submission of draft papers: *01 Aug 2011*
· Further information and registration details will be posted shortly at 
www.liv.ac.uk/music/ <http://www.liv.ac.uk/music/>
· Papers presented at the symposium will be considered for publication.

/This event is co-organized with the Centre for Media and Cultural 
Research at Birmingham City University./

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