Conference Organisation by Alberto Napoli
The three-day conference Branding 'Western Music' aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on... more The three-day conference Branding 'Western Music' aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on the intersections between Western music and the institutionalised management of culture. Whilst the entrepreneurial aspects of genres as opera or world music have been largely described, the emergence of the trademark 'Western Music' in relation to the commodification of leisure, the institutionalisation of academic discourses, and the politics of culture remains understudied. Particularly deserving of further attention are the ways in which international events, such as festivals, world fairs, diplomatic acts, or mass broadcasting have created possibilities for homogenisation and globalisation of a corpus of musical practices labelled as Western. The conference seeks to analyse the extent and the repercussions of a way of thinking about the social life of music, firmly established at the turn of 20th century, that has been taken for granted and therefore neglected in research. We invite proposals for papers addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:-Arts management and the commodification of Western music-Music and sociability: professional and amateur agents, societies, and institutions-Musical industries and creative practices: individuals, mediators, consumers-Emergence of academic disciplines: musicology and ethnomusicology-Music and materiality: production and circulation of musical objects and devices-Music and tourism: space and marketing-Concert programming trends Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words and a biographical note of no more than 100 words to Alberto Napoli ([email protected]) by 23 November 2016. Notices of acceptance will be sent by 19 December 2016. Bursaries to cover travel expenses may be available to assist postgraduate students presenting papers. The conference is part of the research programme of the interdisciplinary SNF-funded project:
Edition by Alberto Napoli
Branding 'Western Music', 2024
This edited book aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on the intersections between the co... more This edited book aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on the intersections between the coining of the «Western Music» concept and the institutionalised and entrepreneurial management of culture. It studies the emergence of the trademark «Western Music» in relation to the commodification of leisure, the institutionalisation of academic discourses, and the transnational imperial politics of culture. This collective work devotes particular attention to the ways events, such as the virtuosi concert tours, song contests, diplomatic acts, or mass broadcastings have created possibilities for homogenisation and globalisation of a corpus of musical practices, repertoires, and ways of thinking, ambiguously labelled, as «Western» along the long 20th Century.
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Conference Organisation by Alberto Napoli
Edition by Alberto Napoli