CFP: Music History and Cosmopolitanism, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, June 2016

Music History and Cosmopolitanism: Fourth Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2015
Conference dates: June 1–3, 2016
http://www.uniarts.fi/en/cosmopol2016
Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland

Keynote Speakers
Brigid Cohen, New York University, USA
Mark Everist, University of Southampton, GB
Franco Fabbri, University of Turin, IT

This international symposium will offer a forum for debate about how we might build a post-national understanding of the social in the musical past. The aim is to pursue a better understanding of the kinds of social interweaving and mutual dependence that set cosmopolitan musical processes in motion well before the mass migrations and technological changes that characterized the twentieth century, and to begin to identify features that might signal the emergence of a cosmopolitan society. We therefore invite proposals for papers and group sessions under the following themes:

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The transnationalization of music, its import and export, its cultural transfer and exchange
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Music and transnational mobility, migrancy and nomadism
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Music and belonging: the exiled musician and the stateless musician
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Music and urban culture; cosmopolitan musical genres
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Music and international networks of digital communication
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Diasporic communities, music and border crossing
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Music and non-state politics (e.g. human rights and ecological issues)
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Music and non-state affiliations: religion, ethnicity, pan-nationalism, (Communist) Internationalism

The Conference Committee welcomes individual papers and proposals for panels and roundtable discussions. For individual papers, abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted, with a short biography of the presenter. Panels and roundtable proposals should include a session overview, participant biographies and descriptions of individual contributions.

Please send abstracts and proposals to the conference secretary, Dr. Kaarina Kilpiö, kaarina.kilpio -at- uniarts.fi, by Wednesday 30 September 2015.
Notices of acceptance will be sent by Friday 30 October 2015.