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From: Barry Shank [mailto:shank.46 at osu.edu]


  Migrating Music: Media, Politics and Style An international conference
  Venue: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  Date: 10 - 11 July, 2009


  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 is one in which researchers focus on the (largely benign)
  diversification and pluralisation of musical meaning and experience.
  We do not seek to overturn this framework. Quite simply, it taps an
  important part of the reality of migrating music in the contemporary
  period. But we do want to bring up a number of problems and issues,
  and call on colleagues to think about what these might mean.

  Media. Mediation has been crucial to the global movement of musics,
  from the hymnal to the Web 2.0. Diasporas take recordings with them
  when they move; broadcasters and record companies cater to them in new
  lands; 'World Music' was launched as a marketing and media category.
  What, then, is the impact of mediation on migrating music, and are
  diasporas and host communities mere recipients, or rather active
  shapers of their musical diets?

  Politics. The orthodoxy of today is that musical migration is
  predominantly a Good Thing, and that hybridity always has a
  progressive dimension. By the same token authenticity has become a
  straw target. But can the authentic be a significant value for musical
  cultures as they are relocated around the world? And were early
  commentators entirely wrong to worry about 'Americanisation' or
  'Westernisation'? Indeed are there new models that take into account
  'Bollywoodisation' and the effects of other international culture
  industries? Does a focus on hybridisation sometimes obscure larger
  relations of economic, cultural, and aesthetic domination?

  Style. Hybridity is rarely used in verb form. But the processes of
  stylistic transformation wrought by musical migration are very much
  about action - making change across time, space, codes and cultures.
  What are these 'trans' processes? Do they always depend on mixing, or
  can new migrant styles emerge from endogenous reference back to home
  styles? And how far do music makers and audiences consciously strive
  to create the new.

  We invite proposals for papers which address these and related
  questions from across the disciplines, including (ethno)musicology,
  cultural and media studies, sociology, anthropology, history and
  performance studies. The conference is part of the AHRC research
  project based at the Open University, Tuning In: Diasporic Contact
  Zones @ BBC World Service. So contributions which concern
  international broadcasting and/or the BBC are particularly welcome. We
  are also keen to receive proposals from practitioners - music makers,
  journalists and broadcasters.

  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.

  Proposal forms are available from the Conference's web page on the
  Tuning In website. Please see link below:
  http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/diasporas/events/migratingmusic.htm

  Please send to Karen Ho at K.D.Ho at open.ac.uk. Closing date for
  submission is 22nd February, 2009.

  Keynote speakers:

  Timothy Taylor - Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology, UCLA
  Sara Cohen - Professor and Director of the Institute of Popular Music,
  University of Liverpool Charlie Gillett - Journalist and award winning
  presenter of 'Charlie Gillett's World of Music', BBC World Service in
  conversation with Kevin Robins, Visiting Professor, Istanbul Bilgi
  University Martin Stokes - University Fellow in Music, St Johns
  College, Oxford University Ruth Finnegan - Visiting Professor of
  Sociology, The Open University

  Conference convenors are Jason Toynbee and Byron Dueck, The Open
  University Conference administrators are Karen Ho and Josine Opmeer,
  CRESC (Open and Manchester Universities)