Hello

I am hosting a symposium on Iberian Music at the University of Cambridge 
in June 2017 (please see the cfp below). Would it be possible to put a 
reminder call for the symposium on the JISC musicology mailing list? 
Thank you.

Best wishes
Matthew


CALL FOR PAPERS (REMINDER!) - Music, Nation and Region in the Iberian 
Peninsula: (Re)Sounding History, Identity and Heritage

22–23 June 2017, University of Cambridge

In the twenty-first century, scholarly debate regarding national 
vis-à-vis regional identities in the Iberian Peninsula has returned 
centre stage. Despite the pressures of globalisation that many believed 
would phase out the importance of the nation state and national 
belonging, the display of territorial identities has become more 
prominent across Europe. Music plays a powerful role in nationalism, 
functioning as a tool for state-level cultural policy and displays of 
national patrimony, as well as a political vehicle for the negotiation 
of national narratives. The historical legacy and contemporary 
resurgence of nationalisms and regionalisms in the Iberian Peninsula 
(including the islands of Portugal and Spain) has influenced the ways in 
which music is politicised and harnessed as a symbol of identity, 
collective memory and nostalgia. Moreover, the recent impact of 
international heritage policy, particularly through UNESCO’s Convention 
for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, 
has strengthened the cultural and political significance of music 
especially at an institutional level bringing into question the ways in 
which musical ownership and value are negotiated. Finally, increased 
immigration in the Iberian Peninsula has diversified musical practice 
complicating the relationship between music and nation in increasingly 
multicultural societies.
The committee welcomes papers that address the symposium’s themes from a 
historical or a contemporary, ethnographic perspective. Submissions are 
invited that challenge or revisit established paradigms in Iberian music 
studies, addressing the following or related areas:

•	Rethinking music and nationalism in the Iberian Peninsula both past 
and present
•	Music and state-level cultural policy
•	Music and regionalism
•	Contesting the state: music as a political weapon
•	Music and UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible 
Cultural Heritage of Humanity: safeguarding processes, musical 
ownership, politics
•	Collective memory and nostalgia in musical practice and discourse
•	Music on and across border regions
•	Music, diaspora and immigration in national/regional contexts

Presentations will be in the form of independent papers (20 minutes + 
10-minute discussion) and potential speakers should submit a 300-word 
abstract plus a short biography to [log in to unmask] It is 
hoped that there will be an edited publication of selected papers from 
the symposium. For more information, please see the symposium website: 
https://iberianmusic2017blog.wordpress.com.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 12th January 2017 (24:00 GMT)
(Notification of acceptance will be by the end of February 2017)

-- 
Dr Matthew Machin-Autenrieth
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge
Research Associate, Corpus Christi College
http://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/directory/machin-autenrieth

Recent Book Publication:
Flamenco, Regionalism and Musical Heritage in Southern Spain
https://www.routledge.com/Flamenco-Regionalism-and-Musical-Heritage-in-Southern-Spain/Machin-Autenrieth/p/book/9781472480064