CFP: Sung Intoxication, University of Siegen, Germany, 23-25 May 2024

[AMS]

Sung intoxication. Drinking songs from antiquity to the present

 

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Katharina Hottmann (University of Siegen), Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Fuhrmann (University of Leipzig)

Deadline for abstracts: March 20, 2023

The drinking song is a genre of enormous historical scope, extending in Europe alone from ancient Anacreontics and the cult of Dionysus to »Fathom the Bowl« or Pink’s »Raise Your Glass« and beyond; along with love songs and religious songs, it belongs to the core stock of song culture. The spectrum of aesthetic registers ranges from the monophonic popular song to complex part-songs, and thus corresponds to a complex picture with regard to different actors and their social spaces, or to different forms of practice and ambitions of lyrical reflexivity.
While especially the convivial drinking cultures of various epochs have been scholarly studied in a very well-founded way, drinking songs as an overarching phenomenon have rarely been examined by musicology, despite the abundance of perspectives that open up here at the intersections of music, poetry, convivial culture, and everyday history.

The interdisciplinary and international conference aims at exploring the phenomenon of the drinking song from a variety of perspectives––especially from the fields of musicology (including ethnomusicology and popular music studies), literature and cultural studies. Thus, on the one hand, our concern is to make music audible as an important component of drinking culture(s) in interdisciplinary discourse, and on the other hand, to deal with a topic for the subject of musicology in which musical and social structures are particularly closely related to each other and which is therefore suitable to stimulate joint reflection among established sub-disciplines in the field, such as historical musicology and the sociology of music.

Proposals for papers should be submitted to katharina.hottmann -at- uni-siegen.de AND wolfgang.fuhrmann -at- uni-leipzig.de by March 20, 2023. They should consist of a short abstract of no more than 300 words and a note on the education and academic affiliations of the contributor. A decision on inclusion will then be made in mid-April. We will seek funding to reimburse travel and accommodation expenses, but kindly note that we cannot guarantee such funding at this time. 

For more information: https://www.musik.uni-siegen.de/mitarbeiter/professoren/hottmann/?lang=de