[ecrea] CfP POPID Conference "Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity"

CfP Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity



Date: 30 January-31 January-1 February 2013

Location: Rotterdam, ERMeCC - Erasmus Research Centre for Media, 
Communication and Culture

Conference fee: € 120 Student fee: € 60

Deadline submission abstracts: 18 November 2012

Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2012

Deadline extended abstract/paper (at least 2000 words): 15 January 2013



The European project ‘Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and 
Cultural Identity’ (POPID), funded as part of the HERA Joint Research 
programme on Cultural Dynamics, invites proposals from the academics and 
practitioners for a three-day conference exploring the relationship 
between popular music, cultural heritage, cultural memory and identity.

In addition to paper presentations, panel discussions and keynotes, the 
conference programme includes film/documentary screenings and tie-in 
events on the topic of music and film, organized in collaboration with 
and in the framework of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
With a history now stretching back over fifty years, popular music forms 
such as rock and punk may be as potent a symbol of national or local 
identity as traditional representations, for example, national and 
regional insignia, food, drink, and sport. By looking at the 
articulations of popular music heritage in specific European contexts, 
POPID has examined popular music's contribution to the narratives of 
cultural identity and representations of cultural memories. The 
conference covers four main themes:



I. Music, place and local identity

This theme considers the role played by popular music, as a mass 
mediated cultural form, in the negotiation of cultural identity in a 
local, national, and international contexts. It also looks at how this 
articulation is expressed in other art forms, such as books and films. 
Possible sub-themes for papers include:

• Mapping popular music histories and heritage

• Local and regional music and identity

• Cultural globalization and popular music

• Music and place in literature and film

II. Popular music audiences and cultural memory

This theme explores how the popular music histories of places resonate 
with audience and contribute to their individual and collective memories 
and identity formation. Possible sub-themes include:

• Fandom

• Sites of music tourism and pilgrimage

• DIY heritage



III. Popular music in heritage institutions
This theme looks at the proliferation of practices in heritage 
institutions (both physical and digital). Possible sub-themes include:

• Cultural policy and popular music heritage

• Popular music and locality in museum and archives

• Popular music memory in exhibitions and archival collections

• Practices of display and use of popular music material culture

• Online popular music heritage practices

• DIY heritage



IV. The music industry and the popular music past

This theme examines how popular music's contribution to the narratives 
of cultural identity and representations of cultural memories is 
articulated and negotiated in the business practices of the global 
popular music industry. Possible sub-themes include:

• Revivals, nostalgia and retromania

• Commercialisation of popular music past



Submission of Abstracts

Abstracts should be about 500words and should indicate how the proposed 
presentation or panel discussion fits within the above conference themes 
and to which theme the paper specifically contributes.

Please submit your abstract before November 18, 2012 to 
(popid /at/ eshcc.eur.nl) to the attention of Annemarie Kersten.

Notifications of acceptance will be communicated before 1 December 2012. 
An extended abstract or paper of at least 2,000 words will have to be 
submitted by 15 January 2013.



Visit our project website at 
http://www.eshcc.eur.nl/english/hera_popid/popid_conference/













Annemarie Kersten, M.A.

Lecturer



Erasmus University Rotterdam

Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication

Dept. of Media and Communication

P.O. Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Phone: +31 10 408 9132



Visiting address:

Woudestein Campus, L-Building Room L3-092

Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam




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