[ecrea] CFP: Keep it Simple, Make it Fast! Crossing Borders of Underground Music Scenes

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto, Portugal, are pleased to announce the second KISMIF International Conference.

“Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (KISMIF) Crossing Borders of Underground Music Scenes” will take place in Porto, Portugal between 15th July and 17th July 2015. The conference is associated with the research project Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (PTDC/CS-SOC/118830/2010).

The submission of papers for this conference is open to academic researchers working in all areas of sociology, anthropology, history, cultural economics, geography, urban planning, media and cultural studies and cognate disciplines, including design, illustration musicology, popular music and visual and performing arts. The closing date is 28th February 2015.

This initiative follows the great success of the first KISMIF conference (held in July, 2014). Keeping the focus on underground music and its creative possibilities for resistance and DIY, we extend the analysis of music scenes to consider the intersection and debate with other cultural, artistic and creative fields (cinema and video; graffiti and street art; theater and performance art; literature and poetry; radio; graphic design, illustration, cartoon and comics; etc.).

The conference organizing committee welcomes abstracts relating to the following topics:
• Developments in social theory around networks, flows, art worlds, musical fields, artistic fields, underground music scenes
• Historicity, genealogy and diachrony of music scenes and art worlds from the post-war period to the present day
• Researching music: methodological challenges and dilemmas
• Subcultures, tribes, neo-tribes and underground scenes
• Contradictions and tensions between the underground and mainstream
• DIY Careers: alternative forms of musical, artistic and cultural entrepreneurship
• Style, aesthetic and musical corporeality
• Music scenes, art worlds: aging and gender
• Memory, technologies and the cultural and creative industries
• New intermediate and artistic production in the city and space
• Territorial mechanisms on music production, intermediation and consumption
• New dynamics of social inclusion through music and underground art practices
• Music and arts for social change, the arts and arts communities as part of urban culture
• Pedagogies and methodologies based on the underground
• Practices of resistance, and contemporary countercultural youth identities
• New social movements, music and other artistic scenes (local and global)
• Punk, post punk, metal, electro, funk, rap, hip hop: new musical and artistic boundaries
• Experimental music and new ethnographies of meaning
• Music scenes, DIY, liminality and public spaces
• Gatekeeping mechanisms, reputation building and (de)territorialization of cultural scenes
• Migrations, diasporas and identities: the role of music through the world

For more information, please visit:

https://www.academia.edu/10186342/Call_for_Papers_KISMIF_International_Conference_2015_KISMIF_Summer_School_Gettin_Underground_Together_

Thanks,

Mike Dines


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