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One-day Conference, Cardiff, 19 October 2013
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From the BFE website:
Saturday 19th October, 2013
in association with
THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
Registration
This conference is free-of-charge, but registration is essential.
Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
to reserve your place, as capacity is limited.
Preliminary Program (including travel details and accommodation)
Download pdf here
Conference Committee:
Amanda Villepastour (Cardiff University), Catherine Tackley (The Open University), Graeme Milne (University of Liverpool), John Morgan O'Connell (Cardiff University)
This conference has been timed to precede WOMEX, which takes place in Cardiff
23-27 October 2013. https://www.womex.com/realwomex/2013/cardiff.html
Theme: “Music around the Atlantic Rim”
This conference will consider the relocation of peoples and exchanges of culture, music and ideas in relation to seafaring. We seek new approaches and theoretical frameworks for the circulation and exchange of ideas and materials related to music around the Atlantic rim specifically, and more generally, in trans-oceanic context and around large bodies of water. We invite innovative research about multi-directional movements of musicians, musical artefacts (including instruments and recordings), repertoires and ideas within populations of free and forced migrants, seafarers, and other travellers. Research about music making on ships and in ports is particularly welcome. We encourage an interrogation of existing theories of diaspora and call for new models of enquiry in a changing Atlantic world. Building on representations and critiques of “the Black Atlantic” and proposing new analytical models, this conference will also include research about European forms that traverse the Atlantic but do not usually default to the transatlantic rubric. In particular, we invite work on the “Green Atlantic”: the circa-Atlantic emigration of Celtic peoples and musics, as well as immigration patterns into Celtic sites. As well as inviting new research on past triangulated movements of people between Europe, Africa and the Americas, we seek fresh research about contemporary patterns of relocation and exchange due to changing political, economic and technological formations.
https://www.bfe.org.uk/one-day-conference-cardiff-19-october-2013