[AMS-announce] CFP: Migrating Music: Media, Politics and Style, School of Oriental and African Studies, Univ. of London, July 2009

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Over the last twenty years or so there has been much interest in music and diaspora, that is in migrating music. No doubt this interest is historically grounded. Movement of peoples and their music across the world has been occurring to an unprecedented extent and in novel ways. Researchers in a variety of disciplines have then responded by studying musical flows and the formation of hybrid styles, but also the way in which apparently similar music can mean quite different things in different contexts. We might sum up the overarching framework as one in which researchers focus on the (largely benign) diversification and pluralisation of musical meaning and experience...

Full narrative description: http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/diasporas/events/migratingmusic.htm

Proposals for 20 minute papers should be between 150 and 200 words in length. Themed panels are welcome too. For panel proposals please submit 3 paper abstracts together with a panel title, a 50 word panel rationale, and the name of your panel convenor/chair.

Please send to Karen Ho on the appropriate proposal form attached at K.D.Ho at open.ac.uk. Closing date for submission is 22 February 2009.
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