[Commlist] Conference: Home, Work and Music: Musical Practices in Domestic Spaces

*Home, Work and Music: Musical Practices in Domestic Spaces*
Conference
22–23 February 2024
mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Fanny Hensel-Hall

*Call for Papers*
What does it mean to make and perform music in the home? Home, Work and 
Music explores issues and debates
centred around music in domestic spaces. It will showcase current 
research on the empirical, methodological and
theoretical implications of centring the domestic in music research.

Domestic spaces are regularly overlooked in scholarly, sectoral and 
policy discourses, but their significance as entangled
sites of music creation and performance, and the issues raised by their 
visibility are striking and urgent. From basements
to bedrooms, domestic settings are key nodal points where personal 
lives, global digital infrastructures and creative
networks meet. Scrutiny of the lived realities of these digitally porous 
sites affords critical insights into technological
mediations of musicians’ creative labour in the home. 

The conference aims to illuminate practices of music production as bound 
to lived domestic sites against a backdrop
of wholesale changes to music associated with digitalisation, 
entrepreneurialism and self-marketisation. We encourage
submissions that investigate the home as the location for individual and 
collective music production at a moment
when the boundaries of the public and private are eroding and the 
pressures on musicians as creative workers are
intensifying as a result of longer-term patterns of participation, 
exclusion and “flexibilisation”.

 We welcome critical explorations from various disciplines of the 
experiences of musicians that consider the following topics:

- Live music performance from/in the home
- Music and domestic material spaces: bedrooms, garages, bathrooms, 
sheds, basements
- Housing provision, welfare and the creative process
- Gendered and racialized inequalities in making time and space for music
- New and innovative methodologies in domestic music making
- Stylistic and genre developments, such as bedroom pop
- The politics of music and domesticity: resistance, safety and inequalities
- Domestic technologies, bodies and musicking
- Digitalisation, networking and collective music making
- Covid-19, the live sector and domestic performance
- Neoliberal self-marketisation and the creative autonomy of musicians

We would particularly welcome contributions that highlight power 
relations with respect to gender, class,
sexuality, disability and race/ethnicity.

We are currently putting together a special issue proposal on “Music 
Practices in Domestic Spaces”
(guest editors Rosa Reitsamer, Emília Barna, Ingrid Tolstad, Paul 
Harkins and Nick Prior) that will be linked
to the conference.

*Guide for authors*
The deadline to submit abstracts is: 31st August 2023

To be considered for the conference, please write an abstract of no more 
than 250 words and submit it to:
(muscids2024 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(muscids2024 /at/ gmail.com)>

Please include: your name and affiliation, your email address and please 
note if you would like your abstract
to be considered for the special issue.

The conference is free and while we are gently encouraging an in-person 
conference presenting online is also a possibility.
Please specify in your abstract submission your preference.

*Important Dates*
Deadline for submission: 31st August, 2023
Notification of acceptance: 30th September, 2023
Further information on the final paper submission for the special issue 
will be announced on the conference website by October 2023.

*Organising committee*
The conference is organized by a group of renowned international 
scholars and hosted by the Department of Music Sociology
at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna:

*Emília Barna*, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
*Ingrid Tolstad*, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
*Paul Harkins*, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
*Rosa Reitsamer*, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria
*Nick Prior*, University of Edinburgh, UK

For any enquiries regarding the programme and submissions, please 
contact: (muscids2024 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(muscids2024 /at/ gmail.com)>
Conference website: https://musiksoziologie.at/?PageId=4306 
<https://musiksoziologie.at/?PageId=4306>


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