[Commlist] CfP: Music and the Internet, University of Chicago and online

*CfP: Music and the Internet, University of Chicago and online, 9-10 
June 2023*


Music and the Internet (https://musicandtheinternet.co 
<https://musicandtheinternet.co>) is a hybrid, multi-day 
interdisciplinary conference that will take place online and at the 
University of Chicago, 9–10 June 2023. Its goal is to bring together 
scholars and creators to present across a variety of perspectives on the 
intersection of music, sound, and online culture, and to help cultivate 
the developing international network of thinkers at work on these topics.

 From autoplaying videos to social media echo chambers, the 
21st-century internet is a noisy place. The internet and online 
platforms have become increasingly entwined in both the music industry 
and in everyday musical activity, with music as both a shaped and 
shaping medium. Online music communities have emerged around net-native 
genres with distinct aesthetic, communicative, and meme-based 
conventions. Such developments have varied throughout the history of 
music on the internet, with reverberating effects in other online 
creative industries. Accordingly, a range of theoretical, practical, and 
ethical issues are in open (and often urgent) discussion for those 
studying these phenomena.

Recent research meetings in this area of study include Music and the 
Internet <https://musicinternetoxford.wordpress.com/> (Oxford, 2018), 
Like, Share and Subscribe 
<https://youtcc2020.weebly.com/> (Online/Lisbon, 2020), Digital Music 
Socialities 
<https://cc.au.dk/aktuelt/arrangementer/vis-arrangement/artikel/digital-music-socialities/> (Aarhus, 
2021), Information Overload? Music Studies in the Age of Abundance 
<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/music/events/2021/information-overload-music-history-in-the-age-of-abundance.aspx> 
(Birmingham, 2021) and Internet Musicking 
<https://www.internetmusicking.com/> (Online, 2022). This conference 
continues the momentum of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of 
music and internet studies, fostering conversations across disciplines 
including (but not limited to) music studies, sociology, media theory, 
and computer science.

*Themes for the conference will include:*
– Internet Musical and Audiovisual Aesthetics
– Internet Music Genres
– Music Platforms and the Digital Music Industries
– Music Fandoms and Communities Online
– Music in Virality, Memes, and Trolling
– Histories and Archives of Internet Music(king)
– Methodologies, Tools, and Ethics in Studying Online Music
– Music and Sound in Online Games
– Music Livestreaming and the Attention Economy

*Keynote Speaker:*
Dr. Jabari Evans (University of South Carolina, Harvard University 
Rebooting Social Media Institute)

*Keynote Panel: Classical Music, Public Musicology, Race, and Social Media*
Dr. Imani Danielle Mosley (University of Florida)
Babatunde Akinboboye (@babatunde_hiphopera)

*Proposals*
The standard format for presentation will be 20-minute papers, although 
proposals for performances of creative work and multi-person panels or 
workshops are enthusiastically encouraged as well. Please send proposals 
of 250 words, a bio of 100 words, and a (nonbinding) preference for 
in-person or virtual presentation to (musicinternetconference /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(musicinternetconference /at/ gmail.com)> by *3 March 2023.*

*Conference Co-Organizers:*
Dr. Steven Gamble (University of Bristol)
Dr. Kate Galloway (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Dr. Paula Clare Harper (University of Chicago)

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