[ANPPOM-Lista] Fwd: Music - Sound- Radio: Deadline for abstracts extended til 30 September

[Martha Ulhôa]

The deadline for abstract submission for the research seminar *Music –
Sound – Radio: Theorizing Music Radio* at the University of Copenhagen
25-27 May 2017 has been extended until 30 September.



The original CFP is below and on the website: http://ramund.ikk.ku.dk/



Call for papers/anthology contributions



*Music – Sound – Radio*

*Theorizing Music Radio*



*University of Copenhagen 25-27 May 2017*



In a year, the Danish music and radio research project Ramund
<http://ramund.ikk.ku.dk/> will close. To mark this, we will organize a
seminar focusing mainly on the theoretical aspects of the many different
relations between music and radio and the meetings between the two in
music-radio. The aim of the seminar will be to publish an anthology of
articles.

     The intention is not to develop a separate theory of music and radio but
to apply and explore existing theory in the context of music, sound and
radio. Within the project we have used theories of mediatization and genre
theory as discussion ‘drivers’ in order to conceptualize the complex
relations between music scenes, musical practices, media institutions, and
media practices. Questions of historiography have been important as well.
At the seminar and in the subsequent anthology we would like to develop the
two main themes in conjunction with a third theme on radio and sound
studies. We would thus like to develop the following three themes:



1. Music, radio, and mediation

Music radio constitutes a crossroads of macro- and micro- sociological
concerns. Among them are issues of cultural education, nation building, and
the levelling of hierarchies through mass mediation. All of these are
intertwined with issues of programming and listening practices inscribed in
music and everyday day life. Various theories of media and musical milieus,
affordance, mediation, and mediatization address these crossroads, which
still call for further theorization and further studies of the social,
cultural, practical, and material multiplicities of music radio.



2. Music, radio, and genre

Notions of genre are key to both radio and music practices. Genre connects
issues of style, formats, mediation, and social regularity, and genre
manifests an element of stability within music culture. Simultaneously,
genre may be regarded as a means of instigating difference and change -
projecting teleologies in a context of contingence. Therefore, developing
adequate theories of genre is a key task and an area of convergence for
media and music studies.



3. Music, radio, and sound

Music is a key component in radio’s sound, but there are of course many
other sound sources and legions of ways to combine them in programs. From a
sound studies perspective, it has become possible to study music as an
integral part of a broader sound panorama and also to draw attention to the
cultural embeddedness of such panoramas. Nevertheless, analytical
perspectives and terminologies need to be developed further, and radio
sound being such an important cultural factor for nearly a century is an
obvious point of departure.





If you work with or plan to work with any of the above or related themes
concerned with the more theoretical aspects of music and radio, we would
like to invite you to a three-day seminar in Copenhagen in late May 2017.



We will adhere to a small seminar format with three keynote speakers
(professors Kate Lacey (University of Sussex), Eric Weisbard (University of
Alabama), and Alf Björnberg (University of Gothenburg)), 15-20 guests, and
the Danish research group. There will be only one stream. The Danish
research project will pay for accommodation and main meals but guests will
have to cover their own travel expenses.

     Presentations will be as follows: Each participant (or team of
writers) will hand in a paper (ca. 6.000 words) six weeks before the
seminar, which will be distributed to two commentators chosen from among
the seminar participants. At the seminar, the author(s) will have 15
minutes to present main ideas followed by a 25 minute discussion beginning
with comments from the two commentators.



We aim to publish with a major UK and/or US publishing house. Our ambition
is to produce a tight and coherent volume.



Please send a 300-500 word abstract to Morten Michelsen at momich em hum.ku.dk
before 30 September 2016. Please include name(s), affiliation, e-mail, and
technical equipment required. You may expect an answer concerning
acceptance within three weeks. If you have any questions, do not hesitate
to phone or email Morten Michelsen.



On behalf of the Ramund research project



Iben Have, Aarhus University

Mads Krogh, Aarhus University

Steen Kaargaard Nielsen, Aarhus University

Morten Michelsen, University of Copenhagen