*Techniques of Listening*
*Deadline for submissions extended: June 15*
*Organized by the Music and Sound Studies Interdisciplinary Student Group*
*University of Minnesota*
*October 13–14, 2017 *
*Keynote Speakers: Charles Hirschkind and Emily Dolan*
As a way of knowing and interacting with the world, techniques of listening
constitute a wide range of socially and historically circumscribed
practices that shape our subjective positions and collective identities.
Techniques of listening orient the ear and represent sound in distinct and
often contradictory ways.
Techniques of listening are bound up in the materials and instruments we
listen with and to, but they are also found in the ideologies and cultures
that define, use, and misuse sound and music. With this conference, we wish
to shed light on the aesthetic, scientific, technical, legal, medical,
historical, social, cultural, religious, and philosophical ways of
listening as they pertain to any kind of music and/or sound.
We welcome submissions on, but not limited to, the following:
- Practices, theories, and methodologies of listening
- Epistemologies and ontologies of sound
- Intersections of gender, class, and race
- Sound, deafness, and disability
- Politics and ethics of music, sound, silence, and noise
- Music and sound in film
- Literature and the arts
- Sound and embodiment
- Soundscapes
We especially welcome to submissions from graduate students and early
career scholars.
We welcome proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtables. See
website for submission details: https://gopherlink.umn.edu/organization/
MusicandSoundStudies/calendar/details/1290697
Deadline for proposals extended: Proposals should be submitted by *June 15,
2017* for review. Please send proposals to mss-at-umn.edu
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Mikkel Vad
Ph.d. student, Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society
Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
University of Minnesota
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