*– CALL FOR PAPERS –*
*‘Music and the Internet’*
*A Joint Study Day of the RMA and BFE*
*University of Oxford*
*Saturday 8th December 2018*
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Georgina Born
Since the turn of the millennium, music and the Internet have become
increasingly entangled with one another. For many Internet users, the
musical web has become an integral part of everyday life, while worldwide
digitization initiatives have transformed musical production practices and
modes of consumption. In their recent *Music & Letters *article, Georgina
Born and Christopher Haworth note that the Internet ‘multiplies music’s
discursive and social mediation, engendering new online entities,
practices, and relations, which may themselves augment, publicize, and
globalize offline forms’. Alluding to new research directions, they reason
that the study of Internet-mediated music ‘necessitates interdisciplinary
approaches that integrate digital methods with both ethnography and
history’ (Born & Haworth 2018: 603, 647).
Responding to these developments, this BFE/RMA study day seeks to foster
dialogue between musicologists and ethnomusicologists who are interested in
the online mediation of music and novel methodological approaches that
support its study. How is the Internet involved in the formation of musical
and political subjects? What can we learn from online interactions between
artists and fans, performers and audiences? Why have musical memes become a
contagious aspect of popular culture in the current decade? In what ways
does the Internet afford renewed interest in music making among large
corporations? Who are the users that make use of the musical web, and on
whose terms do they play and listen?
We invite proposals for papers of 20-minutes, which will each be followed
by 10 minutes of discussion. The keynote address will be given by Professor
Georgina Born and the day will conclude with a roundtable on digital
research methodologies. We particularly welcome papers by graduate students
and early career researchers.
Prospective paper topics may include (but are not limited to):
· The online consumption of music: YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, etc.
· The transformation of music economies and the emergence of the
digital music commodity
· Emancipation, control, and the politics of Internet use
· The materialities and social meanings of digital music technologies
· Online communities and the construction of celebrity personae
· Internet-mediated music genres
· Interdisciplinary approaches to musical memes and user-generated
content
· The use of smartphones for music creation and dissemination
· Internet piracy and reconfigurations of Intellectual Property
· Digital methodologies: using the Internet for ethnographic and
musicological inquiry
Paper titles and abstracts of 250 words should be sent to
[log in to unmask] by 9th September 2018. Notification of
acceptance will be sent by 7th October 2018. For more information, please
see the conference website: https://musicinternetoxford.wordpress.com.
Programme Committee: Pablo Infante-Amate (University of Oxford), Edward
Spencer (University of Oxford), Georgina Born (University of Oxford), Eric
Clarke (University of Oxford).
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Dr Morgan Davies
BFE Administrator
Email: [log in to unmask]
Website: www.bfe.org.uk
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