[AMS-announce] CFP: Music and Migration, Univ. of Southampton, Oct 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

Music and Migration
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
15-17 October 2009
Call for Papers
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. 

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 musicians’ networks
• Musical experiences of diaspora
• Global and local music industries
• Return migration and ‘emergent’ cultural hubs
• Migration routes that by-pass well-established (e.g. post-colonial) pathways
• Identity
  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

We welcome submissions to present papers (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions) on the 
conference themes. 

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to
Ulrike Meinhof uhm at soton.ac.uk; Nadia Kiwan n.kiwan at abdn.ac.uk and Marie-Pierre Gibert
marie.gibert at soton.ac.uk by December 4, 2008 including full contact details for all authors.