Colloquium: Independent Music Labels: Histories, Practices and Values (online)
Colloquium | Independent Music Labels: Histories, Practices and Values
22-25.06.2021 | online
The international colloquium will be held online via zoom on the 22-25th of June 2021 with a soon to be announced program schedule. Starting from broader discussions about the relationship between the local and the global in music production, this colloquium proposes a discussion on the impact of independent music labels with a focus in contexts, such as the portuguese, that are similarly located outside the main production centers. We will take as a starting point some recognized (yet open to scrutiny) assumptions about independent labels in the field of music production: the dissemination and making available of local musics and artists in opposition to the hegemony of global (mostly Anglo-Saxon) artists and genres released by major/multinational record companies; the valuing of aesthetic and artistic dimensions in music making at the expense of its commercial potential; the forms of organization and work that are innovative and adaptable to the changing contexts in the record sector, particularly in the new millennium. This is an inter and multidisciplinary colloquium taking contributions from disciplines such as musicology, ethnomusicology, sociology, anthropology and history, among others, and focusing in the following themes: independent labels and the dissemination of music genres and styles; new organisational practices in independent labels; ; ideologies and values in independent labels; the Portuguese context: from Estado Novo to the New Millennium. It will also establish a dialogue between the academy and the record sector with the presence and participation of independent label managers.
Keynote speaker
Prof. David Hesmondhalgh (School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds)
Project
ORFEU (1956-1983): The Politics and aesthetics of popular music production and consumption in modern Portugal (PTDC/ART-OUT/32320/2017)
Organization
Instituto de Etnomusicologia - Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (INET-md)