[Air-L] CFP: Music and the Internet, University of Chicago and virtual, 9-10 June 2023

[Paula Harper]

*CFP: Music and the Internet, University of Chicago and virtual, 9-10 June
2023*


Music and the Internet (musicandtheinternet.co) is a hybrid, multi-day
interdisciplinary conference that will take place virtually and at the
University of Chicago June 9-10 2023. Its goal is to bring together
scholars and creators to present across a variety of perspectives on the
intersection of music, sound, and online culture, and to help cultivate the
developing international network of thinkers at work on these topics.



>From autoplaying videos to social media echo chambers, the 21st-century
internet is a noisy place. The internet and online platforms have become
increasingly entwined in both the music industry and in everyday musical
activity, with music as both a shaped and shaping medium. Online music
communities have emerged around net-native genres with distinct aesthetic,
communicative, and meme-based conventions. Such developments have varied
throughout the history of music on the internet, with reverberating effects
in other online creative industries. Accordingly, a range of theoretical,
practical, and ethical issues are in open (and often urgent) discussion for
those studying these phenomena.

Recent research meetings in this area of study include *Music and the
Internet* <https://musicinternetoxford.wordpress.com/> (Oxford, 2018), *Like,
Share and Subscribe * <https://youtcc2020.weebly.com/>(Online/Lisbon,
2020), *Digital Socialities *
<https://cc.au.dk/aktuelt/arrangementer/vis-arrangement/artikel/digital-music-socialities/>(Aarhus,
2021), *Information Overload? Music Studies in the Age of Abundance *
<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/music/events/2021/information-overload-music-history-in-the-age-of-abundance.aspx>(Birmingham,
2021) and *Internet Musicking* <https://www.internetmusicking.com/>
(Online, 2022). This conference continues the momentum of the burgeoning
interdisciplinary field of music and internet studies, fostering
conversations across disciplines including (but not limited to) music
studies, sociology, media theory, and computer science.


Themes for the conference will include:



Internet Musical and Audiovisual Aesthetics

Internet Music Genres

Music Platforms and the Digital Music Industries

Music Fandoms and Communities Online

Music in Virality, Memes, and Trolling

Histories and Archives of Internet Music(king)

Methodologies, Tools, and Ethics in Studying Online Music

Music and Sound in Online Games

Music Livestreaming and the Attention Economy


*Keynote Speaker:*

Dr. Jabari Evans (University of South Carolina, Harvard University
Rebooting Social Media Institute)



*Keynote Panel: Classical Music, Public Musicology, Race, and Social Media*

Dr. Imani Danielle Mosley (University of Florida)

Babatunde Akinboboye (@babatunde_hiphopera)


The standard format for presentation will be 20-minute papers, although
proposals for performances of creative work and multi-person panels or
workshops are enthusiastically encouraged as well. Please send proposals of
250 words, a bio of 100 words, and a (nonbinding) preference for in-person
or virtual presentation to musicinternetconference at gmail.com by *3 March
2023. *


*Conference Co-Organizers:*

Dr. Steven Gamble (University of Bristol)

Dr. Kate Galloway (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Dr. Paula Clare Harper (University of Chicago)