Call for Papers: The Place of Music
Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, Loughborough University
28-29 June 2017 | Co-organised by Allan Watson and Michael Hoyler
CFP:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/events/eventslist/the-place-of-music.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/musicconf2017
About this event
It is almost twenty years since the publication of the landmark text
/The Place of Music/ (Leyshon et al. 1998) put the complex
relationships between music and place firmly on the research agenda.
In those twenty years, technological developments have profoundly
impacted upon musical production and consumption in ways which have
not only changed the relationships between music and place in a
geographical sense, but the place of music in society and the economy
more fundamentally. This two day conference takes this anniversary as
an opportunity to bring together musical scholars from across the
social sciences to consider and debate the place of music in 21st
Century economy and society. The conference will be based broadly,
although not exclusively, around four overlapping key themes:
1. Music-making, musical creativity and creative labour
2. The music industry and musical economy
3. Music consumption
4. Social and economic networks of musical creativity and production
Call for papers
Our aim is to bring together researchers from diverse disciplinary
backgrounds who share common ground through their interest in music
scholarship. We therefore invite proposals for presentations from
scholars working in any discipline or area of music scholarship.
Proposals should take the form of an abstract of no more than 250
words, along with name(s) (clearly identifying the named presenter),
affiliation and e-mail address. Proposals should be e-mailed to Allan
Watson ((A.Watson3 /at/ lboro.ac.uk)) and Michael
Hoyler ((M.Hoyler /at/ lboro.ac.uk)), by *Friday* *16th December 2016*.
Decisions on proposals will be made during January 2017.
A modest registration fee will be charged for all speakers and
delegates (reduced for postgraduate researchers), which will include
coffee/tea, and lunches. There will be an option of a conference
dinner at additional cost. Travel and accommodation costs are not
included.
Confirmed speakers include:
*Professor Andrew Leyshon*, University of Nottingham. Author of
Reformatted: Code, Networks and the Transformation of the Music
Industry (Oxford University Press, 2014) and co-editor of The Place of
Music (Guilford Press, 1998).
*Professor Nick Crossley*, University of Manchester. Author of
Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion: The Punk and Post–Punk Worlds
of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975–80 (Manchester
University Press, 2015).
*Dr Leslie Meier*, University of Leeds. Author of Popular Music as
Promotion: Music and Branding in the Digital Age (Polity, 2016)
*Louis Barabbas*, Director of Debt Records, Manchester
/The Place of Music/ represents one of a number of events occurring
across 2016-17 to mark the launch of Loughborough University's
new Centre for Research in Communication and Culture:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/.
