[ecrea] Call for Papers: Music, Festivals, Heritage conference

*Music, Festivals, Heritage*

Siena Jazz Archive, Italy. 25-28 May 2017

*Keynote Speaker*

Professor Andy Bennett, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia


In a world where notions of culture are becoming increasingly 
fragmented, the contemporary festival has developed in response to 
processes of cultural pluralization, mobility and globalization, while 
also communicating something meaningful about identity, community, 
locality and belonging.—Andy Bennett /et al/,, /The Festivalization of 
Culture/

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 From Woodstock to The Proms, from Burning Man to Montreux, music 
festivals have a transformative potential; they can help people connect 
with places and spaces in new ways and play a key role in identity 
formation. Festivals at their most utopian offer a fantastic space in 
which to dream and try another world into being.  Equally, they offer 
opportunities for people to celebrate and engage with their cultural 
heritage and to re-connect with the past.

We invite submissions for *Music, Festivals, Heritage*, a four-day 
multi-disciplinary conference that brings together leading researchers 
across the arts, humanities and social sciences, as well as festival 
directors, producers and programmers, to explore the relationship 
between music festivals and cultural heritage.


We welcome contributions that address the conference title from multiple 
perspectives, including heritage studies, festivals and event research, 
media and cultural studies, musicology, sociology, cultural theory, 
music analysis, history, and practice-based research. *Music, Festivals, 
Heritage* also aims to feature presentations from both researchers and 
industry professionals.


Conference topics include but are not restricted to:

·Established and innovative uses of heritage sites and public spaces

·Festival sites and cultural memory

·Transformations of place: music festivals as utopian sites

·Questions of music genre (e.g. jazz, opera, folk, rock, classical) and 
the construction of heritage at festival

·Festival as dull culture: repetition, predictability, boredom

·The tension between the conservation and the use of heritage sites

·Festivals and cultural tourism

·New models of engagement between festivals and cultural heritage

·Festivals as sites that explore the relationship between tangible, 
intangible and digital heritage

·Critical perspectives from festival programmers, producers, organisers

·The mediation and representation of (heritage and) festival

·Festival as exclusive community; festival as marginal space

·From carnivalesque to festivalisation: theoretical approaches and 
questions of festival

·The cultural politics of festival sites

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*Proposals are invited for:*
• Individual contributions (20 minutes) – up to 250 words.
• Themed sessions or panel discussions – 250 words per contribution plus 
250 words outlining the rationale for the session.
• 75 minute sessions in innovative formats – up to 750 words outlining 
the form and content of the session.


Please submit proposals (including a short biography and institutional 
or organisational affiliation) by email in a word document attachment 
to: *(w.vandeleur /at/ uva.nl)*

The deadline for proposals is *1st December 2016*; outcomes will be 
communicated to authors by 10 January 2017.


All submissions will be considered by the conference committee:

  * Prof Walter van de Leur, Chair (University of Amsterdam/Conservatory
    of Amsterdam)
  * Prof Helene Brembeck (University of Gothenburg)
  * Prof Nicholas Gebhardt (Birmingham City University)
  * Dr Francesco Martinelli (Siena Jazz Archive)
  * Prof George McKay (University of East Anglia)
  * Professor Beth Perry (University of Sheffield)
  * Dr Loes Rusch (University of Amsterdam/BCU)
  * Prof Tony Whyton (Birmingham City University)
  * Dr Marline Lisette Wilders (University of Amsterdam/University
    of Groningen).
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The conference forms part of the EU JPI Heritage Plus-funded CHIME 
project, a transnational research project that explores the relationship 
between European music festivals and cultural heritage sites.  Visit 
www.chimeproject.eu <http://www.chimeproject.eu>for further information. 
 Updates on the conference and information about travel and 
accommodation will be available on this site over the next few months.




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