CFP: 7th Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History, Univ. of the Arts Helsinki, 5-7 Jun 2024
AMS-Announce
7th Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History
Time and place: 5–7 June 2024, University of the Arts Helsinki, Helsinki Music Centre Organisers: University of the Arts Helsinki History Forum and Sibelius Academy.
The financial condition of music has been recognised for as long as there have been studies of patronage in the music of the early-modern period or for as long as ‘opera’ has been regarded as both ‘an art and a business’. And while the domains of music publishing and the press have long been regarded as financially contingent, the 7th Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History seeks to expand these concerns to include all types of agency related to music, commodity and finance across the globe, and all types of exchange: monetary, in-kind and reciprocal gifting.
The following (non-exhaustive) list opens up some questions that the symposium looks to explore:
• Cultural history of music and economy
• Musical celebrity
• Patronage and music
• Promotion and self-promotion of musicians
• Music publishing, engraving and other forms of dissemination
• Music institutions and their financial underpinnings
• Economic impact on the aesthetics of music
• Music as commodity
• Media and music
• Connections of the music market to other economic networks
• Musical societies
• Music collecting
• The trade in music autographs and related material
• The concept of the music industry
Keynote speakers of the symposium are:
Kyle Barnett (Bellarmine University, US)
Gundula Kreuzer (Yale University, US) Proposals are invited for
• Papers (20 minutes duration followed by 10 minutes discussion)
• Complete sessions and panels (two, three or four 20-minute papers, each with 10 minutes
discussion)
• Panels with a freer structure (position-papers, lightning papers, responses, etc.)
Proposal length:
• individual presentation proposals: max 300 words
• panel session proposals: max 350 words + each panelist’s proposal 200 words
The language of the conference is English.
The deadline for submissions is Saturday 30 September 2023 (23:59 Finnish time UTC+3). Proposals can be sent online: Musica Mercata 2024
Notices of acceptance will be sent by Tuesday 31 October.
For more information, please see the event website: https://www.uniarts.fi/en/events/musica-mercata-finance-commodity-and-the-music-industry-from-antiquity-to-the-present/
