Urban Music Studies

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21/08/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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CfP: Global Trends in the Popular Culture and Nighttime Entertainment of European Cities, 1880s–1930s

The role that dance halls, cabarets and variety theatres, and cultural imports like the cakewalk, tango and jazz played in the rise of a pan-European and global commercial popular culture, has been addressed either from the perspective of a single … Continue reading

14/08/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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CfP: Music Tourism Convention By Sound Diplomacy

Music Cities Events is proud to present Music Tourism Convention. The world’s most extensive conference bringing together the music and tourism sectors to explore how music impacts, benefits and improves tourism offers, from festivals to heritage, music trails to food and … Continue reading

03/08/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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CfP: Marseille ? Naples : deux métropoles musicales transculturelles de Méditerranée

In addition to numerous other similarities, the Mediterranean cities Marseille and Naples offer very lively music scenes with significant parallels (and, of course, differences). Examples of comparable phenomena point to typical forms of popular song (“canzone napoletana”/”chansons deMarseille”), the close … Continue reading

15/12/2016
by R. Kuchar
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Open until Dec. 16th: The Place of Music, 28-29 June 2017, Loughborough University

Call for papers It is almost twenty years since the publication of the landmark text ‘The Place of Music’ (Leyshon et al. 1998) put the complex relationships between music and place firmly on the research agenda. In those twenty years, … Continue reading