Deadline: May 1, 2021—now closed
“Baltic Musics After the Post-Soviet” explores the chronologies and imaginaries of makers, performers, and scholars creating, naming, inhabiting, and interpreting Baltic worlds after the “post-Soviet.” We invite music- and sound-centered papers and presentations of creative work that address Baltic musics after the “post-Soviet” from practice-based, ethnographic, historical, and comparative perspectives. Possible themes to explore include, but are not limited to:
- National genres and instruments
- Place, soundscape, and environment
- Language and multilingualism
- Historiography
- Collaborative music-making
- Movement, emigration, and diaspora
- Archives and festivals
- Gender, race, voice, and body
- Consumerism, media, and music industries
- Dance
- Religion
- Institutions and states
- Regionalisms, Europeanness, globality
- Hybridity of style and influence
- The composer’s voice
How to Submit
The conference will feature scholarly papers and presentations of work by makers and performers.
- For papers, please submit a 250-word abstract along with a 150-word biography.
- For maker and performer presentations, please submit either a 250-word description of your presentation plan or a prospective program with a 100-word description of relevant themes, topics, or connecting threads.
- All maker and performer proposals should include 1-3 links to audio/visual/other if relevant materials that are representative of the proposed presentation.