[ecrea] CFP: Studying Music, Edinburgh 10-12 April 2014

CFP Deadline Extended to 30th June 2013.


Studying Music

An International Conference in Honour of Simon Frith

University of Edinburgh

10-12 April 2014



Dear All


After several people have contacted us requesting some more time, we

have decided to extend the deadline for submissions for the call for

papers until the 30th June (see below for details of the call).


Best wishes,


Lee



CALL FOR PAPERS

Music scholarship has widened enormously in scope in the last several
decades, especially in response to developments in sociology and cultural
studies. Previously-accepted concepts such as excellence, authenticity and
value have become understood as social constructions rather than inherent
or aesthetically autonomous. As a result, long-established canons have been
questioned and the boundary between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture become less
secure, with questions of aesthetics becoming intertwined with questions of
politics and identity.


The work of Simon Frith has played a significant role in these
developments. His own career, starting in historical sociology and, in
turn, based in departments of Sociology, English, Film and Media Studies
and, finally, Music, reflects the increasingly inter-disciplinary nature of
contemporary music scholarship. Furthermore, his parallel career as a
journalist, critic and chair of the Mercury Music Prize poses interesting
questions concerning the relationship between sociology and criticism, and
between the academic study of music and the general audience.


This conference seeks to celebrate Frith's contributions to the study of
music and to evaluate and critique current orthodoxies in music scholarship
(including Frith's own work): Is the relationship between musicology and
sociology still problematic? Has popular music studies managed to develop a
convincing and coherent theoretical approach? Is 'popular music' still a
useful academic category? What new problems has a sociological approach to
music generated? Is the study of music still Eurocentric and Anglicised?
Does the idea of quality have any role in the sociological study of music?


We invite papers on any aspect of music scholarship which are in some way
informed by - or pose a challenge to - Frith's writing and thinking.
Possible areas for discussion could include, but are not limited to:


- Aesthetics and value

- Music industry

- Writing about music

- The relevance of music scholarship beyond the academy

- Music and politics

- Critical appraisal of the work of Simon Frith


There will be keynote presentations by Robert Christgau and Lydia Goehr.
The conference organising committee is comprised of Matt Brennan, Sara
Cohen, Dave Laing, Lee Marshall, Angela McRobbie, and Peter Nelson.

Please send proposals of up to 300 words, for 20 minute papers, together
with a short biography (50 words) of the author, to
(frithconference2014 /at/ gmail.com)  by 30 June 2013.


Conference website:http://sites.ace.ed.ac.uk/studyingmusic/
--
Dr Lee Marshall
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
SPAIS
University of Bristol
11 Priory Road
Bristol BS8 1TU
(0)117 928 7504
http://bristol.academia.edu/LeeMarshall
New book: The International Recording Industries
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415603454/

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