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Due to high demand, we are pleased to announce that a limited number of additional places have been made available at the conference. *You will need to register by midnight on Tuesday 2 July* For a reduced registration fee (£60 for waged delegates/£30 unwaged) delegates will be able to view the sessions via a live 'simulcast' stream from the main lecture theatre into a nearby seminar room. Of course if and when spaces open up in the main lecture room you'll be welcome to move across. The registration fee includes the concerts and conference booklet. Please contact [log in to unmask] to book a place. Music | Digitisation | Mediation Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies Music is being fundamentally transformed by digitisation and digital media. With the growth of internet access across the developing and the developed world, and the accelerating appearance of mobile and new media platforms in which music plays a critical affective role in attaching users, digitisation is fostering a range of escalating changes that radically alter the environment for the creation, circulation and consumption of music. Not only creative and distributive practices, but the nature of music as a cultural object are evolving in far-reaching ways. Institutional and industrial reconfigurations are paralleled by the renegotiation of intellectual and cultural property regimes, by new musical literacies, and by the emergence of novel sonic materialities, new aesthetics and genres. Digitisation inflects longstanding musical subjectivities and gender dynamics; it demands new thinking about the periodisations and temporal assumptions that govern the historiography of late-20th- and 21st-century music. But these changes also have wider repercussions, since music is often held to be in the vanguard of the changes to contemporary cultures and cultural economies afforded by digitisation. The fate of digitised music is thus taken to portend what is to come for audio-visual media as, increasingly, they circulate through the internet and via sites such as YouTube. This international and interdisciplinary conference addresses such changes. It features an array of leading and younger scholars from music, anthropology, sociology, ethnomusicology, sound studies and new/media studies. The aim is to forge a new interdisciplinary field of digital music studies, while feeding the benefits gained from the analysis of music today back into anthropological, media and social theory. An additional goal of the conference is to present and discuss, with colleagues engaged in related work and those from relevant disciplines, the interim findings of Music, Digitisation, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies (MusDig), a 5-year research programme directed by Prof. Georgina Born, funded by the European Research Council and based in the Faculty of Music at Oxford. Sessions: Music, Mediation, Actor-Network-Theory; Industry and Platforms; Gender; Materiality and Creative Practices; Digital Aesthetics/Fusion; Consumption; Circulation; Digital/Anthropology Keynote speakers: Prof. Anahid Kassabian (University of Liverpool), Dr. Jason Stanyek (University of Oxford), and Dr. Heather Horst (Digital Ethnography Research Centre, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) Speakers include: Victoria Armstrong (St Mary’s), Geoff Baker (RHUL and Oxford), Andrew Barry (Oxford), Eliot Bates (Birmingham), Nancy Baym (Microsoft Research), Frauke Behrendt (Brighton), Georgina Born (Oxford), Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Victoria), Michael Bull (Sussex), Mark Butler (Northwestern), Nicholas Cook (Cambridge), Aditi Deo (Oxford), Blake Durham (Oxford), Andrew Eisenberg (Oxford), Adrian Freed (UC Berkeley), Haidy Geismar (UCL), Andrew Goffey (Nottingham), Sumanth Gopinath (Minnesota), Christopher Haworth (ICASP), Steve Jones (Illinois at Chicago), Mark Katz (North Carolina), Cathy Lane (LCC), Eric Lewis (McGill), George Lewis (Columbia), Noel Lobley (Pitt Rivers), Sonia Livingstone (LSE), George Marcus (UC Irvine), Lee Marshall (Bristol), Frederick Moehn (KCL), Keith Negus (Goldsmiths), David Novak (UC Santa Barbara), Gascia Ouzounian (QUB), Alex Perullo (Bryant), Benjamin Piekut (Cornell), Trevor Pinch (Cornell), Marilou Polymeropoulou (Oxford), Nick Prior (Edinburgh), Katherine Schofield (KCL), Nick Seaver (UC Irvine), Joe Snape (Oxford), Jonathan Sterne (McGill), Martin Stokes (KCL), Paul Théberge (Carleton), Patrick Valiquet (Oxford) Dates: 11-13 July 2013 Venue: St Anne’s College, University of Oxford Music, Digitisation, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies Faculty of Music | University of Oxford | OX1 1PT Tel: +44(0)1865 286901 | Web: http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/research/musdig.html -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. 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