CfP: Sounding Space and Place, Denver (Deadline: 30.10.2022)
Call for Participants, AAG 2023
Denver, Colorado
March 23rd-27th, Panel: Sounding Space and Place: New Directions in the Geography of Sound and Music
Deadline: 30.10.2022
Organizers:
Luke Leavitt (Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison); Arun Saldanha (Department of Geography, Environment and Society, University of Minnesota); Rashad Shabazz (School of Social Transformation/School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning, Arizona State University)
Though geographers have been doing research on music for decades, there has recently been a flourishing of new perspectives emerging between cultural geography, popular music studies, and sound studies. This series of panels builds on the momentum at previous AAG meetings to create community and exchange. “Space and place” are more than just the “where” of the production, dissemination, and consumption of particular sounds. When we listen to music and other sounds we’re hearing history, migration, power, industry, race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, climate, language, and a host of other social and environmental factors. No musician, listener, or sound-maker lives outside these forces, and the experiences of music and sound in turn help shape these contexts. How do the multiple crises heaping up in the world today come to inflect soundscapes and the sonic arts? This series of panels provides cases and concepts for demonstrating how music and sound are spatialized.
This call for participation seeks panel contributions that connect music and/or sound with themes including but not limited to:
colonialism, Blackness, Indigeneity, institutional racism, Islamophobia/orientalism, whiteness, etc.
gender identities and sexuality
the state, power, biopolitics
protest, critique, social movements
economic, psychic, and cybernetic logics of the culture industry
urban landscapes, public space, and architecture
class, taste, cultural capital
migration, tourism, public transport, and other mobilities
cultural, regional, religious, national identities; sacred space
auditory or lyrical evocations of landscape
environmental degradation and disaster
more-than-human music and sound
technological aspects of production, distribution and consumption
embodied experience, soundscapes, sense(s) of place, attunement
poetics and aesthetics
audience dynamics and performance spaces
Please send abstracts to Luke Leavitt (ldleavitt[at]wisc[dot]edu), Arun Saldanha (saldanha[at]umn[dot]edu) and Rashad Shabazz (Rashad.Shabazz[at]asu[dot]edu) by October 30th. Talks are 10-15 minutes.