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Meryl Krieger

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Mar 19, 2013, 12:56:37 PM3/19/13

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This might be of interest!

Best to all, Meryl

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Subject: CfP: 2013 AAA "Sound, music, technology: anthropological explorations"
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Dear all,

We are looking for participants who want to join our panel on sound and music at the Chicago AAA. Please send your 250 word abstracts to songca...@uady.mx

Sound, music, technology: anthropological explorations

Organizers: Gabriela Vargas-Cetina and Steve Glazier

In the twenty first century sound seems to surround us everywhere, and music seems to be within reach of everyone. Sound emitting devices come in all sizes and in many forms, from chimes to radios, cell phones and home theatre systems, to the PA systems used in stadiums and concert halls. The universe of sound seems to be ever-expanding. New sound devices and musical instruments emerge continuously from the confluence of older ones and new developments in electronics. In music, acoustic-based instruments and ways of playing co-exist with digital instruments, music-based games and virtual technologies. While in the past it was believed that electronic sounds and music would come to dominate over more ‘natural’ technologies, today we find types of music, such as rock, hip hop and ‘ambient’, that intentionally combine, ‘natural’ sounds with electronic ones. Digital technologies, from CDs to MIDI, affordable music applications, interactive music-centered games, and the internet, would appear as tools of democratization that make music available to everyone everywhere; Jacques Attali’s dream of a world of music composers seems within close reach. However, the ways in which sound and music are experienced, created, enjoyed, or endured are profoundly cultural, and social differences continue to impact on the creation and consumption of sound and music around the world.

This panel brings together anthropologists working on sound, technology and music in different locations and from different angles: from musicians' instruments and their use of analog and digital technologies to issues of gender, voice, education, discrimination and pollution in sound and music. The session showcases the fluid nature of sound and music, which in our times becomes evident from the juxtaposition of ‘natural’ and highly manipulated sounds, the tension between market-driven trends and creativity, and the continuous rupture between any possible ‘natural to artificial’ sound continuum. In the 1970s Murray Schafer conceptualized the increasing low-fi muddling of what he called ‘the soundscape’ as the result of the sound imperialism inherent in industrial and post-industrial society. In the twenty-first century, however, we see through these papers that our soundscapes are the mixed result of culture and technology, and find that not only power and technology, but also everyday aesthetics and creative expression inform sound and music-related practices everywhere. Here we explore how people continue to find meaning and cultural significance in sound and music practices, and how cultural dynamics inform our understanding of the sonic environment as yet other ways to create difference.

Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
http://antropuntodevista.blogspot.com

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Sommer, Mixtape Museum

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Mar 19, 2013, 3:01:23 PM3/19/13

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May I share this on the Mixtape Museum's website?

Sommer

Meryl Krieger

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Mar 19, 2013, 4:24:15 PM3/19/13

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Sure thing! Doesn't this look great? Meryl

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Martin Scherzinger

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Mar 25, 2013, 12:09:27 PM3/25/13

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Meryl,

I am sorry to bother you with a request, but the email supplied below ( songca...@uady.mx) does not seem to be operational. I am trying to submit an abstract for this panel.

Can you help by any chance?

Thanks so much,

Martin Scherzinger
Associate Professor
Media, Culture, Communication
New York University