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Call for Papers

 

Intersectional Masculinities in the Music and Performance Cultures of
German-Speaking Europe

 

University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, March 16-18, 2023

 

While the area of masculinity-studies developed as an independent
concern within the broader field of gender studies in the late twentieth
century, its application in the disciplinary terrains of cultural
studies and arts is only beginning to gain momentum. The planned
symposium therefore explicitly addresses early-career researchers in
(ethno-) musicology, theater, performance and dance studies,  as well as
cultural studies, whose work sheds light on this hitherto underexamined
aspect.   

The symposium primarily seeks to investigate how masculinities are
expressed, negotiated, or contested in the music- and
performance-cultures of Austria, Germany (GDR/FRG) and Switzerland, and
purports to analyse how they are intertwined with imaginaries of the
nation, race and sexuality. This takes into account examples drawn from
diverse music and performance cultures, including their practitioners
and fans at professional and amateur levels. Such a broad focus
accommodates a variety of practices including, but not limited to,
Schlager, Volksmusik, folk, Krautrock, punk, heavy metal, chanson,
classical music, operetta, musical, ballet, dance theatre, travesty and
drag, modern dance, ballroom dance and folk dance. Artists under
scrutiny may range from Richard Wagner to Andreas Gabalier, Falco, Ton
Steine Scherben, Lana Kaiser, Tanztheater Wuppertal, Gustav Gründgens,
Harald Kreutzberg and Rudolf von Laban, Swings und Schlurfs, Gammlern
und Punks, Roberto Blanco and Kerstin Ott.

In particular, prospective presenters should consider intersections
between various iterations of masculinity and pressing questions of
European cultural history in the twentieth and twenty-first century, to
wit: The construction and subversion of national and/or sexual
identities and racist discourses. 

 

-       How does the performance of masculinities in the German-speaking
regions intersect with issues such as the nation/nationalism and racism?

-       In so doing, how does this performance confront or affirm
normative assumptions around sexual identity?

-       How are expectations and crises of masculinity constructed,
rehearsed or subverted through the practice of diverse music and
performance cultures?

-       What is/was the role of folk music and folk dance in the
different German-speaking nation-states (FRG, GDR, Switzerland,
Austria), and how are these practices encoded with gendered meanings?

-       What images/ideals of the body are tethered to the discourses of
intangible cultural heritage?

-       How do projections of alterity overlap with racist and
nationalist discourses in music and dramatic/theatre performances?

-       What are the different ways in which racialized masculinities
can be sexualized and put into the service of the nation?

-       How do nationalism and genius cult intersect in the reception of
twentieth- and twenty-first century art music?

-       Which imaginaries of migrant masculinity were fashioned in
post-war European popular music(s) and dance film(s)?

-       What is the relationship between queer masculinities and
nationalism, and how is this relationship shaped by dis-/abilities?




The keynote lecture will be delivered by Florian Heesch (University of
Siegen).




This call for papers explicitly addresses early-career researchers in
(ethno-)musicology, theater, performance and dance studies, cultural
studies, history, queer studies and gender studies. Please direct paper
proposals in the form of a short abstract (approx. 2.500 characters,
incl. spaces) and a short bio (approx. 1.000 characters), by the
deadline of August 31, 2022, to:




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The symposium will be held in German and English. Notificand accommodation expenses will be reimbursed for presenters, subject to
financing. In the interest of sustainability, the possibility of
virtual/digital participation is also envisioned. On-site childcare will
also be provided.  




In the meanwhile, the organisers are available to answer any queries
that may arise.

 
Dr. Felix Morgenstern
Senior Scientist (PostDoc)
University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
Institute 13 - Ethnomusicology, Room 149
Leonhardstraße 82-84, A-8010 Graz
T +43 (0) 316 / 389-3390
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