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Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!
Underground music scenes and DIY cultures
Published on Tuesday, January 07, 2014
Abstract
The Conference Organizing Committee hereby announces its “Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! Underground music scenes and DIY cultures Conference” which will take place in Porto from 9 July to 11 July 2014. The organisation of the KISMIF Conference will be undertaken by the Research Project Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!. The Call for Papers of this Conference is open for presentations to all core areas of sociology, social sciences and also design, illustration, visual arts and performing arts. The KISMIF Conference Organizing Committee invites experienced and young scholars from various disciplines to participate in the conference. The KISMIF Conference Organizing Committee would like the participants to know that the selected papers from the conference will be published in an edited collection by an international publisher.
Announcement
Argument
The KISMIF Convenors hereby announces its “Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (KISMIF) Underground music scenes and DIY cultures” Conference which will take place inPortofrom 9 July to 11 July 2014. The organisation of the KISMIF Conference will be undertaken by the Research Project Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (PTDC/CS-SOC/118830/2010). The Call for Papers of this Conference is open for presentations to all core areas of sociology, social sciences and also design, illustration, visual arts and performing arts. The KISMIF Convenors inviting experienced and young scholars from various disciplines to participate in the KISMI Conference.
This is the first scientific event to be held inPortugaland in the European framework concerning this subject. Underground music scenes have long been associated with strong DIY (do-it-yourself) cultural practices. Therefore, in a sociological reflection, though open to all other social sciences, we intend to discuss the importance of the musical and artistic underground practices in the contemporary society for its volatility but also undeniable importance in the urban youth cultures.
The urban music cultures concerning the underground are still regarded as illegitimate objects of analysis in the more vast contemporary social theory framework. Yet they play a central role in the functioning of the musical (post)industry and in the emerging digital media landscape. It is also our intention to clarify and highlight musical scenes that pierce contemporary cities and give them rhythm, but also specific forms of identity and cultural and artistic heritage. This three-day conference, explores the contemporary landscape of urban underground music scenes and DIY cultures in a global context.
The Coordination of KISMIF Conference is planning a cultural program related to structuring theme of the Conference in the unique setting of Casa da Música and Oporto city.
Presentations can be related to the following themes
- Social theory developments and complexities in music, arts, youth and urban cultures.
- Historicity, genealogy and diachrony of musical scenes.
- Meanings, identities, urban cultures and youth cultures.
- Aging and gender in the musical underground scenes.
- Urban spaces, musical scenes and new social movements.
- Musical scenes and social networks.
- Heritage, memories and artifacts.
- DIY Careers: social and professional pathways.
- Style, aesthetics and corporality.
- Markets, borders, memorabilia and retromania.
- Artistic creation and underground musical scenes.
- New social inclusion dynamics through music and underground practices.
- Social and cognitive effects of music and underground scenes: aesthetic experience, ethics, coding and decoding.
- Music and arts for social transformation, arts in communities and arts as part of urban culture.
The Conference Organizing Committee would like the participants to know that the selected papers from the conference will be published in an edited collection by an international publisher. Further details: http://kismif.eventqualia.net
Instructions
The abstracts must be written in English, have approximately 250 words, and include 3-5 keywords.
The abstracts must be sent together with a short curriculum note of the authors (100 words).
Please submit your abstract and full contact details as an electronic file no later than Saturday, 15 February 2014.
Send the abstract to http://kismif.eventqualia.net.
Important dates
The deadline for notification of acceptance of abstracts is Saturday, 15 March 2014.
Further information will be available online.
- Abstracts submission: from Friday, 1 November 2013 until Wednesday, 15 February 2014.
- Registration opening: Friday, 15 November 2013
- Early Bird registration deadline: Tuesday, 15 April 2014
- Registration deadline for paper givers: Tuesday, 15 April 2014
- Late registration: Sunday, 15 June 2014
Conference Fees:
- Early, General: 100€
- Early, Students: 60€
- Late, General: 160€
- Late, Students: 100€
Dates: 9-11 July 2014
Venues: Faculdade de Letras/ Universidade do Porto/ Casa da Música/ Porto/ Portugal
KISMIF Convenors:
- Andy Bennett (AU)
- Paula Guerra (PT)
KISMIF Conference Organizing Committee
- Andy Bennett,
- Augusto Santos Silva,
- Carles Feixa,
- José Machado Pais,
- Luís Fernandes,
- Manuel Loff,
- Paula Abreu,
- Paula Guerra,
- Rui Telmo Gomes.
KISMIF Executive Commission
- Ana Oliveira, Hugo Ferro,
- João Pedro da Costa,
- João Queirós,
- Paula Abreu,
- Paula Guerra,
- Paulo Lemos,
- Pedro Quintela,
- Rui Telmo Gomes,
- Tânia Moreira,
- Teresa Velásquez,
- Tiago Teles Santos.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
- Andy Bennett (Universidade de Griffith, AU);
- Carles Feixa (Universidade de Lleida, ES);
- José Machado Pais (ICS – Universidade de Lisboa, PT);
- George McKay (Universidade de Salford, UK);
- Will Straw (Universidade de McGill, CAN).
Sponsors: KISMIF/ Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)/ Instituto de Sociologia (ISFLUP)/ Universidade do Porto (UP) Portugal/ Griffith Centre for Cultural Research (GCCR)/ Griffith University/ Australia.
Partners: Departamento de Sociologia/ Faculdade de Letras (FLUP)/ Casa da Música/ Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES)/ Universidade de Coimbra/ Eventqualia/ Portugal/ Universidad de Lleida/ Spain
For further details on the conference:
- http://kismif.eventqualia.net
- kismif.conference@gmail.com
- https://www.facebook.com/kismif.conference2014
- http://www.punk.pt/conference-2/
Subjects
- Sociology (Main category)
- Zones and regions > Africa
- Periods > Modern > Twentieth century
- Zones and regions > America
- Periods > Modern > Twenty-first century
- Zones and regions > Asia
- Zones and regions > Europe
- Zones and regions > Oceania
Places
- Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto & Casa da Música
Porto, Portugal
Date(s)
- Saturday, February 15, 2014
Keywords
- music, arts, youth, urban cultures, musical scenes, DIY cultures, aging, gender, identity, style, aesthetics and corporality, artistic creation, social transformation, popular culture, social sciences
Contact(s)
- KISMIF conference
courriel : kismif [dot] conference [at] gmail [dot] com
Reference Urls
Information source
- Tânia Moreira
courriel : kismif [dot] conference [at] gmail [dot] com
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, January 07, 2014, https://calenda.org/273340
