Digital Arts and Humanities in ethnomusicology
Arts et humanités numériques dans l’ethnomusicologie
Published on Thursday, June 09, 2022
Abstract
During the Covid pandemic, the academic world turned towards technology, digital tools and alternative media forms not only to support the transmission of ideas, research and teaching, but also to continue carrying out fieldwork. Musicians also adapted their use of these tools by producing sound and music online, which in turn enabled them to explore new opportunities and to engage in innovative collaborations, opening doors to new audiences that had been hitherto inaccessible. Alongside the rise of digital tools, contemporary ethnomusicology is faced with many questions, some of which emerge directly from our experiences over the last two years.
Announcement
This conference is organised by the Société française d’ethnomusicologie and the British Forum for Ethnomusicology.
Argument
During the Covid pandemic, the academic world turned towards technology, digital tools and alternative media forms not only to support the transmission of ideas, research and teaching, but also to continue carrying out fieldwork. Musicians also adapted their use of these tools by producing sound and music online, which in turn enabled them to explore new opportunities and to engage in innovative collaborations, opening doors to new audiences that had been hitherto inaccessible. Alongside the rise of digital tools, contemporary ethnomusicology is faced with many questions, some of which emerge directly from our experiences over the last two years.
- How has our fieldwork changed, and what can we learn from colleagues who have been carrying out hybrid or online fieldwork for many years?
- What are the role and place of digital tools today as a means and a method for ethnomusicological fieldwork and experimentation?
- How have these technologies created a new impetus and valorised research, including collaborative and participatory work, and touched audiences previously unreachable due to distance, language barriers or disinformation?
- What kinds of issues have arisen around ethics and how useful are alternative publication platforms?
- Have the new relations built with musicians from around the world changed our thoughts about access to research, in particular work behind paywalls?
- How do digital tools enable the development of archives, databases, complex and resource-heavy websites, information and media (audio, video, iconography, testimonials, etc), and how do they link them together?
- Looking beyond the valorisation of sources and their widened access, how have artists and researchers organised collaboration through digital tools? Have the latter triggered new relationships with sound and recording, key elements of our discipline?
- Finally, how have these opportunities or constraints opened new avenues for ethnomusicologists in France and the UK, and what can we learn from each other?
The conference will focus on the following themes:
- Platforms: digital archiving, open access archives, streaming and social media
- Access: wider audiences, dissemination, alternative platforms and publications
- Digital and/or hybrid fieldwork: digital space, ethics, timelines and encounters.
- Digital arts and technical developments: digital analysis of sound, tools, methods
- Digital collaborations and internationalisation: horizontal participation, interdisciplinarity, and gatekeeping (or lack of)
Submission guidelines
Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words, and should also feature a short biography and bibliography to jetus2022@gmail.com.
The deadline for submissions is
25 June 2022.
Applicants will be notified of the outcome by 15 July 2022
The conference will take place at Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, from 23rd to 25th of September 2022.
Scientific Committee
- Cassandre Balosso-Bardin
- Marlène Belly, Maître de Conférences, Université de Poitiers
- Geoffroy Colson, Attaché Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche, Université de Lille
- Byron Dueck
- François Picard, Professeur des universités, Université Paris-Sorbonne
- Steve Wilford
Subjects
- Ethnology, anthropology (Main category)
- Society > Ethnology, anthropology > Social anthropology
- Society > Ethnology, anthropology > Cultural anthropology
- Periods > Modern > Twenty-first century
- Mind and language > Representation > Cultural identities
- Mind and language > Epistemology and methodology > Digital humanities
Places
- Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, 37 Quai Branly
Paris, France (75007)
Event attendance modalities
Hybrid event (on site and online)
Date(s)
- Saturday, June 25, 2022
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Keywords
- ethnomusicologie, humanités numériques, pandémie, art, collaboration artistique, outils numériques, musique
Contact(s)
- Marie COUSIN
courriel : marie_cousin [at] hotmail [dot] fr - Alice Mazen
courriel : jetus2022 [at] gmail [dot] com
Reference Urls
Information source
- Marie COUSIN
courriel : marie_cousin [at] hotmail [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Digital Arts and Humanities in ethnomusicology », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Thursday, June 09, 2022, https://doi.org/10.58079/1922
