[Commlist] Street Music conference CFP

    Call for Papers

This FREE conference, organised by the AHRC Connected Communities 
programme, seeks to explore an important but neglected aspect of public 
culture and community construction: street music. It aims to draw 
together the new knowledge and practice generated by funded research 
projects across Connected Communities with work across a number of 
academic disciplines as well as the creative sector. Following Connected 
Communities established practice, the conference seeks to function as a 
place for dialogue between academics, independent researchers, 
musicians, performers, and the arts and cultural policy sectors.

 From brass bands to buskers to ballad singers, organ grinders to 
beatboxing, one-man/-person bands to flash mobs, music has long played a 
role in how we experience the public space of the street. In this 
conference we aim to contribute to the growing discourse around the role 
of street music in our contemporary communities and to understand its 
historical significance. We welcome contributions from researchers, of 
course, and also street musicians, performers, campaigners, arts 
producers and cultural workers. (We recognise that these categories may 
be productively fluid.) Disciplines? Music, but also from cultural and 
media studies, performance studies, cultural geography, history, leisure 
and tourism studies, urban planning and architecture, and more, as well 
as those who may work in inter-disciplinary or indeed ill-disciplinary ways.


Areas for discussion and critical or creative exploration include but 
are not limited to:

• Cultural policy and legislation

• Cultural control and cultural regeneration

• Critical and theoretical perspectives

• Repertoire and instrumentation

• Amplification, instrumental modification and technology

• Alternative networks and practices—of economy, of cultural production

• Case studies

• Performance locations and situations

• Public or everyday culture

• Historical perspectives on and cultural representations of street music.

This conference is being organised as part of the Creative Spaces and 
Public Culture project at UEA, funded by Connected Communities.

Proposals of 250-300 words are invited for presentations/interventions 
of 20 minutes, panel discussions, creative and musical contributions. 
These should be sent as a Word attachment to*(m.bagnall /at/ uea.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(m.bagnall /at/ uea.ac.uk)> *and include the following: title, 
presenter(s), affiliation(s), short biography (100 words), and email 
address for contact. *The deadline for submission is March 12, 2019*.

*Further information*

The conference is free although registration is essential. Registration 
will open on March 19, 2019.

The conference will take place on 14-15 May, 2019 at The Forum, Norwich. 
There will be an evening event and meal provided for conference 
delegates on 14 May. We can provide conference speakers with 
accommodation for one to two nights. Please state on your application 
the dates that you require accommodation. Reasonable travel expenses can 
also be claimed from the Connected Communities programme.

Limited bursaries are available to support community partners (e.g. 
musicians, performers, creative sector workers), caregivers accompanying 
attendees, and ECR/PhD attendance. If you would like to apply for a 
bursary please contact*(m.bagnall /at/ uea.ac.uk) <mailto:(m.bagnall /at/ uea.ac.uk)> 
*for details. Deadline for bursary applications is 16 March. Please also 
indicate the nights that you would require accommodation.

For further information about the conference*(m.bagnall /at/ uea.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(m.bagnall /at/ uea.ac.uk)> *or checkconnected-communities.org 
<https://connected-communities.org/>for regular updates.


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