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Atlantic Sounds: Ships and Sailortowns - An AHRC Research Networking Project
Colloquium 2: Music, Heritage, Regeneration, Tourism
National Maritime Museum, Falmouth; Friday 14th June 2013
Music is a defining feature of maritime tradition. In addition to the working music of sea shanties, and the impromptu foo foo bands on board ships, musical performances on passenger liners were a critical medium through which to promote new, popular compositions. Historically, music has played an important role in transatlantic tourism, both as entertainment on board cruise ships and liners and in destination towns and cities, often acting as the prime impetus for making the journey. This topic remains relatively underdeveloped in academia, to the extent that a 2005 publication (Gibson and Connell's Music and Tourism: On the Road Again) purports to be 'the first book to comprehensively examine the links between travel and music'. Similarly, the recent regeneration of many UK port areas and associated attempts to connect the public with maritime heritage might prompt consideration of the role of music in the (re-) development of sailortowns on both sides of the Atlantic as contemporary tourist destinations, but yet Day and Lunn report a lack of critical engagement with maritime music in heritage studies (2003). For museums and heritage organisations, music provides an effective way to engage visitors with maritime history, through festivals and performance. However, collecting and interpreting this intangible heritage and ephemera proves more challenging and, as a result, the musical dimension of seafaring and shipping history remains under-represented within galleries and exhibitions.
In this second colloquium of the 'Atlantic Sounds' project, we welcome papers which consider the role of music in maritime heritage, regeneration and tourism and the challenges and opportunities that music offers to maritime museums and heritage organisations. We hope that the colloquium will enable the sharing of ideas and good practice.
Please send abstracts of 200 words for 20-25 minute papers to [log in to unmask] by Thursday 28 March 2013. Decisions will be announced by Monday 8 April 2013.
You would be very welcome to attend the colloquium without offering a paper, but please email [log in to unmask] to reserve your place, as capacity is limited.
This event will take place at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall. It has been timed to coincide with Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival, which takes place from 14-16 June 2013. http://www.falmouthseashanty.co.uk/
Keynote
We are delighted to welcome the musicologist Professor John Collins from the University of Ghana as international keynote speaker for this colloquium. Professor Collins' biography can be found at www.bapmaf.com/biography
Please see the Atlantic Sounds website for more details http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/tackley-atlantic-sounds/
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