[ANPPOM-Lista] Chamada de trabalhos: Branding ‘Western Music’ Universität Bern 7–9 September 2017

[Paulo Kühl]

Divulgando:


*Branding ‘Western Music’*Universität Bern7–9 September 2017



The three-day conference *Branding ‘Western Music’* aims to foster an
interdisciplinary dialogue on the intersections between Western music and
the institutionalised management of culture. Whilst the entrepreneurial
aspects of genres as opera or world music have been largely described, the
emergence of the trademark ‘Western Music’ in relation to the
commodification of leisure, the institutionalisation of academic
discourses, and the politics of culture remains understudied. Particularly
deserving of further attention are the ways in which international events,
such as festivals, world fairs, diplomatic acts, or mass broadcasting have
created possibilities for homogenisation and globalisation of a corpus of
musical practices labelled as Western.

The conference seeks to analyse the extent and the repercussions of a way
of thinking about the social life of music, firmly established at the turn
of 20th century, that has been taken for granted and therefore neglected in
research.



We invite proposals for papers addressing, but not limited to, the
following themes:

- Arts management and the commodification of Western music

- Music and sociability: professional and amateur agents, societies, and
institutions

- Musical industries and creative practices: individuals, mediators,
consumers

- Emergence of academic disciplines: musicology and ethnomusicology

- Music and materiality: production and circulation of musical objects and
devices

- Music and tourism: space and marketing

- Concert programming trends



Guest Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Annegret Fauser (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Prof. Dr. Timothy Taylor (University of California, Los Angeles)

Dr. David Trippett (University of Cambridge)



The languages of the conference are English and German.



Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words and a biographical note
of no more than 100 words to Alberto Napoli (alberto.napoli em musik.unibe.ch) by
23 November 2016. Notices of acceptance will be sent by 19 December 2016.
Bursaries to cover travel expenses may be available to assist postgraduate
students presenting papers.



The conference is part of the research programme of the interdisciplinary
SNF-funded project: *The Emergence of 20th Century ‘Musical Experience’* (
http://vienna1892.unibe.ch/) and is organised by Prof. Dr. Cristina
Urchueguía, Dr. Katharina Wessely, Dr. María Cáceres-Piñuel, Salvatore
Melidoro (PhD Candidate), and Alberto Napoli (PhD Candidate).