[ecrea] CFP for seminar on music, sound and radio, May 2017

Below you will find a call for a seminar and articles concerned with 
relations between music, sound and radio.

Best

Morten Michelsen

Call for papers/anthology contributions

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*Music – Sound – Radio***

*Theorizing Music Radio***

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*University of Copenhagen 25-27 May 2017*

In a year, the Danish music and radio research project Ramund 
<http://ramund.ikk.ku.dk/>will close. To mark this, we will organize a 
seminar focusing mainly on the theoretical aspects of the many different 
relations between music and radio and the meetings between the two in 
music-radio. The aim of the seminar will be to publish an anthology of 
articles.

       The intention is not to develop a separate theory of music and 
radio but to apply and explore existing theory in the context of music, 
sound and radio.Within the project we have used theories of 
mediatization and genre theory as discussion ‘drivers’ in order to 
conceptualize the complex relations between music scenes, musical 
practices, media institutions, and media practices. Questions of 
historiography have been important as well. At the seminar and in the 
subsequent anthology we would like to develop the two main themes in 
conjunction with a third theme on radio and sound studies. We would thus 
like to develop the following three themes:

1. Music, radio, and mediation

Music radio constitutes a crossroads of macro- and micro- sociological 
concerns. Among them are issues of cultural education, nation building, 
and the levelling of hierarchies through mass mediation. All of these 
are intertwined with issues of programming and listening practices 
inscribed in music and everyday day life. Various theories of media and 
musical milieus, affordance, mediation, and mediatization address these 
crossroads, which still call for further theorization and further 
studies of the social, cultural, practical, and material multiplicities 
of music radio.

2. Music, radio, and genre

Notions of genre are key to both radio and music practices. Genre 
connects issues of style, formats, mediation, and social regularity, and 
genre manifests an element of stability within music culture. 
Simultaneously, genre may be regarded as a means of instigating 
difference and change - projecting teleologies in a context of 
contingence. Therefore, developing adequate theories of genre is a key 
task and an area of convergence for media and music studies.

3. Music, radio, and sound

Music is a key component in radio’s sound, but there are of course many 
other sound sources and legions of ways to combine them in programs. 
From a sound studies perspective, it has become possible to study music 
as an integral part of a broader sound panorama and also to draw 
attention to the cultural embeddedness of such panoramas. Nevertheless, 
analytical perspectives and terminologies need to be developed further, 
and radio sound being such an important cultural factor for nearly a 
century is an obvious point of departure.

If you work with or plan to work with any of the above or related themes 
concerned with the more theoretical aspects of music and radio, we would 
like to invite you to a three-day seminar in Copenhagen in late May 2017.

We will adhere to a small seminar format with three keynote speakers 
(professors Kate Lacey (University of Sussex), Eric Weisbard (University 
of Alabama), and Alf Björnberg (University of Gothenburg)), 15-20 
guests, and the Danish research group. There will be only one stream. 
The Danish research project will pay for accommodation and main meals 
but guests will have to cover their own travel expenses.

       Presentations will be as follows: Each participant (or team of 
writers) will hand in a paper (ca. 6.000 words) six weeks before the 
seminar, which will be distributed to two commentators chosen from among 
the seminar participants. At the seminar, the author(s) will have 15 
minutes to present main ideas followed by a 25 minute discussion 
beginning with comments from the two commentators.

We aim to publish with a major UK and/or US publishing house. Our 
ambition is to produce a tight and coherent volume.

Please send a 300-500 word abstract to Morten Michelsen at 
(momich /at/ hum.ku.dk) <mailto:(momich /at/ hum.ku.dk)>before 15 September 2016. 
Please include name(s), affiliation, e-mail, and technical equipment 
required. You may expect an answer concerning acceptance within three 
weeks. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to phone or email 
Morten Michelsen.

On behalf of the Ramund research project

Iben Have, Aarhus University

Mads Krogh, Aarhus University

Steen Kaargaard Nielsen, Aarhus University

Morten Michelsen, University of Copenhagen

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Morten Michelsen

Associate professor, PhD

Musicology Section

University of Copenhagen

Karen Blixensvej 1

2300 Copenhagen S

Personal web site: www.mortenmichelsen.sites.ku.dk 
<http://www.mortenmichelsen.sites.ku.dk>

Music radio project: www.ramund.ikk.ku.dk

Rock project: http://rockhistorie.ku.dk/

New book out: http://www.universitypress.dk/shop/rock-i-danmark-3285p.html

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