Friday, June 16th 2023
Sponsors
Codarts Rotterdam, Arts and Culture Studies Department Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam Popular Music Studies (RPMS), Erasmus Music Association, and IASPM Benelux.
On Friday 16th of June 2023, we will hold our eighth annual student conference on popular music research organized by the IASPM Benelux at Codarts in Rotterdam. This one-day event will offer a series of panels led and presented by students at all levels of their academic careers. The goal of the event is to provide students the opportunity to share their research with others, receive feedback and connect with students across disciplines with a joint interest in popular music. At the end of the day, we will also announce the winners of the Popular Music Thesis Prize 2023, a contest hosted every year by the IASPM Benelux.
Call for Papers
We invite students of all levels – BA, MA, PhD – based in the Benelux region to participate in the conference. Each year we highlight the role that music performs in contemporary societies, in all of its diversity and breadth. We encourage presentations covering a broad range of subjects, from the performance careers of practicing musicians, to the changing aesthetics of musical creativity and composition due to new media technologies, to the connection between music, politics and social justice movements. We intentionally encourage a range of approaches as one of the primary goals of this conference is to allow students greater contact with each other across genre categories and disciplines. We also encourage and welcome a number of perspectives and methodologies from sociological, musicological and ethnomusicological to music industry and practice-based studies. Finally, we welcome students who are particularly motivated to blur boundaries between established methodologies in their research. In this sense, we hope to strengthen the contributions which explore new ways of examining music scholarship in the Benelux academic world. As this year’s conference is hosted at Codarts, University of the Arts in Rotterdam, we are especially looking forward to integrating the perspective of practice-based artistic research in the conference. Ultimately, we hope to share insights with each other to promote greater contact between our various specializations and to make visible the important role that all forms of popular music research perform for culture and society.
This conference is an excellent opportunity for students to present their research on music to a broader audience and receive feedback from experts in their fields. Bringing together the communities of IASPM Benelux, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Codarts, the conference also enables students to network across disciplines and professions, getting in contact with other students, researchers as well as musicians from all across the Benelux region.
Submit your abstract
If you are interested in participating in this conference, please submit an abstract of under 250 words on your music related research by Friday May 19th 2023, 18.00.
Your document should contain the following:
- your full name
- education level
- study program/department
- name of academic institution
- email address
- the title of your research and the abstract (short summary)
Presentations will be around 15-20 minutes, followed by a short discussion. For inclusivity’s sake, the preferred language of presentations is English, but Dutch language presentations are also welcome. Please send your abstracts to 667008aw@eur.nl. Acceptances will be sent by Friday May 26th, 2023.
There is no cost to participate or attend, though speakers must be members of IASPM Benelux (which involves a €10 annual fee for students, for more information go to https://www.iaspmbenelux.org/membership-2). We are happy to assist some participants without a student ticket with their travel expenses if needed. If you want to make use of this, please add a sentence about it to your application.