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Call for Papers

'Music and Migration'

University of Southampton, United Kingdom
15-17 October 2009



This conference will explore the relationship between music and migration by
providing new insights into the creative practices and life-stories of
migrant artists across the globe. A core theme of the conference will be the
motivations and experiences of migrant musicians who leave, return, stay or
move beyond their localities. Through the focus on such specific groups of
migrants the conference aims to throw light on their identifications in
their artistic and every-day lives.
Past and on-going research shows that patterns of migration are clearly
linked to transnational networks. By focusing on the role of migrant
musicians within such networks, this conference seeks to analyse and
understand the extent to which musicians¹ networks may or may not be special
cases within migration studies. We suggest that artists who create or enter
such networks may follow a different logic of translocal and transnational
links than is normally associated with migration research on music. Thus we
aim to widen the scope from 'bi-focal', ethnically and spatially defined
communities in sending and originating countries to more complex flows and
the networking of individuals. Whilst recently there has been a plethora of
research which theorises networks and flows in migration studies, little
empirical research has as yet emerged which studies these in closer detail.
We therefore welcome contributions which explore artists¹ transnational
networks and movements both empirically and theoretically. We expect to
highlight the role of highly visible cultural hubs and all they have to
offer to migrant musicians in terms of cultural infrastructure whilst not
neglecting the role that less visible cities play in the re-directing of
artistic energy. We therefore hope to include discussions of
well-established musical networks as well as interconnections with those
emerging from musical industries in so-called sending countries. We also
seek to further understanding and debate on the interconnection between
migrant musicians and the socio-political engagement of associations within
civil society, thus evaluating their impact on a variety of cultural,
social, political factors within countries of settlement and origin.
The conference will have both a theoretical and an empirical focus. It will
be a forum for interdisciplinary debate and will appeal to colleagues
working across the Humanities and Social Sciences. The conference delegates
will also include musicians, media, cultural industries¹ and cultural policy
representatives who will take part in a specially convened stakeholder panel
discussion.

Keynote speakers:
* Professor Nina Glick-Schiller, University of Manchester
* Professor Philip Bohlman, University of Chicago

Suggested themes for academic papers include (non-exhaustive list):
* Transnational musicians¹ networks
* Musical experiences of diaspora
* Global and local music industries
* Return migration and OEemergent¹ cultural hubs
* Migration routes that by-pass well-established (e.g. post-colonial)
pathways
* Identity/identities
* Texts/musical genre/aesthetics/ multimodality
* Local and global cultural hubs
* Migrant and post-migrant cultural production
* Relationships between artistic and socio-political engagement
* Cultural policy
* Historical perspectives on musical culture transfer


The conference is organised by the University of Southampton (Modern
Languages, Music) and the University of Aberdeen in collaboration with the
Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton. It is the final conference of a
3-year research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research
Council programme Diaspora, Migration, Identities: OEDiaspora as Social and
Cultural Practice: a Study of Transnational Networks across Europe and
Africa¹ www.tnmundi.com <http://www.tnmundi.com> .  The conference is the
third of three events arising from the project. The first event, OEMusics of
Madagascar: South < > North Crossroads?¹ took place in Antananarivo,
Madagascar on 16-17 November, 2007 and the second event, OEMusic and
Migration: North African Artists¹ Networks across Europe and Africa¹ will
take place in Rabat, Morocco on 13-14 November 2008.

The conference forms part of a week¹s innovative cultural activities to be
held at the University of Southampton in conjunction with the City of
Southampton and Black History Month. The week-long series of events will
start with a lunchtime concert by the acclaimed OEMadagascar AllStars¹, at
the Turner Sims Concert Hall on 12 October 2009. On the 13 and 14 October,
musicians of Malagasy and North African origin who are based in Europe and
Africa will be engaged in creative outreach sessions with local Southampton
schools and on the 15 October, the conference will be officially opened with
a special concert which will bring together Malagasy and North African
musicians in a one-off public performance at the Turner Sims Concert Hall.

We welcome submissions to present papers (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for
questions) on the conference themes. Your paper might present some empirical
findings, a theoretical review, critique and new argument; it might consist
of a textual analysis, raise provocative questions or analyse one case, site
or context. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to
Ulrike Meinhof [log in to unmask]; Nadia Kiwan [log in to unmask] and
Marie-Pierre Gibert [log in to unmask] by December 4, 2008 including
full contact details for all authors.

Scientific and Artistic Committee
- Prof Ulrike Meinhof (Cultural Studies, Linguistic Ethnography,
Sociolinguistics), School of Humanities, Centre for Transnational Studies,
Modern Languages, University of Southampton
- Dr Nadia Kiwan (Sociology and Francophone Cultural Studies), School of
Language and Literature, French Studies, University of Aberdeen
- Dr Marie-Pierre Gibert (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology),
School of Humanities, Centre for Transnational Studies, Modern Languages,
University of Southampton
- Dr Thomas Irvine (Musicology and Performance Studies), School of
Humanities, Music, University of Southampton
- Prof Taieb Belghazi (Cultural Studies, Sociology and Literature),
University Mohamed V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco
- Dama Mahaleo (Musician and cultural consultant), Antananarivo, Madagascar




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Dr Marie-Pierre Gibert
Research Fellow AHRC Programme Diasporas, Migration and Identities.
Project: Diaspora as Social and Cultural Practice: a Study of Transnational
Networks across Europe and Africa.

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University of Southampton
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