CfP: 1st International Music Livelihoods Symposium 2021 (Deadline: 31.10.2021)

CfP: 1st International Music Livelihoods Symposium 2021

06. & 07.12.2021

Griffith University Queensland

Deadline: 31.10.2021

The core theme of the symposium is “Educating for the Sustainable Musician in Post-Normal Times.” Postnormal times (PNT) is a concept developed by Ziauddin Sardar as a development of post-normal science. Sardar and Sweeney (2016; 2020) describe the present as “postnormal times”, “an in-between period where old orthodoxies are dying, new ones have yet to be born, and very few things seem to make sense” (n.p).

The term “music livelihoods” further acknowledges the complex lives of musicians involving their changing musical identities, diverse career journeys, and an external environment impacting their values and opportunities.

Abstracts will need to be in English. Co-authorship is welcome. Abstracts can be regarding but not limited to the following:

  • Current or proposed innovative learning and teaching practice regarding the professional development of student musicians and/or new-emerging-established music practitioners

  • Research discussing professional musicians’ realities and practices towards sustainability prior, within or beyond a pandemic-affected work environment

  • Current disruption-inspired innovations and practices of professional musicians

  • Changing or challenging values of new-emerging-established music practitioners

  • Musicians’ health and well-being (physical, aural, mental, financial) concerns

  • Musical identities and journeys

  • Future trends and potential disruptors impacting musician livelihoods

  • Technologies enabling music livelihood futures.

You are invited to submit a 200-250 word abstract of a 15-minute paper presentation for consideration of inclusion in the symposium program. Please review the information below and submit your abstract via this form by midnight AEST October 31, 2021. Successful applicants will be notified by November 7th, 2021. Registration for the Symposium is $60AUD for both days or $40AUD per day – click here to register.

For enquiries please direct all correspondence to info @ musiclivelihoods.com

More information here.

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