Call for Papers for MusicaFemina International Symposium Budapest - “Gender and Creativity in Music Worlds” 8-9 January 2020

*Call for Papers for the MusicaFemina International Symposium Budapest*

*“Gender and Creativity in Music Worlds”*

8-9 January 2020



As part of its Hungarian event series, MusicaFemina International is
organizing a symposium and workshop in Budapest on 8-9 January 2020. The
initiative, involving Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and Germany, is primarily
aimed at creating the conditions for more balanced relations of gender in
the various spheres and institutions of music production.

The Budapest symposium will provide a public forum for researchers and
music professionals — including musicians, educators, critics and industry
personnel — interested in the causes and modalities of gender inequalities
and gendered power dynamics present in the multiple genres and worlds of
music. The symposium is co-supported by the Creative Europe Programme of
the European Union.

For music professionals and academics in post-socialist Europe
opportunities to participate and share ideas concerning gender and music
have been relatively limited in comparison with colleagues in Western
countries. For this reason, we particularly welcome proposals from the
Central and East European region.

The programme will include a keynote talk, three conference panels, a
roundtable discussion with artists, and a workshop for musicians, music
(industry) students and music industry professionals. Presentations at the
conference panels detailed below will be selected by a committee of experts.

Our invited keynote speaker is *Ann Werner, **Associate Professor, Gender
Studies, Södertörn University.*



The conference panels will be organized around the following themes:



*1.    **Gender (Studies), Education and Pedagogies*

This panel will consider the intersection of gender studies and the field
of music education and pedagogy. We welcome explorations of the ways in
which theories and methodologies of gender studies have informed music
education and pedagogical theory, methodology, as well as practice. We also
invite studies of gender-based roles, hierarchies, relations of power and
divisions of labour in music education. Furthermore, we seek general
reflections on the relationship between gender and musical socialisation as
well as studies of gender and musical learning in informal settings such as
amateur learning.



*2.    **Gender and Music in Central and East Europe*

Focusing on the Central and East European region, this panel will include
papers that address topic with a geographically and/or historically
informed perspective. In their recent history, popular music and music
industry studies, musicology, sociology of music or media studies have been
dominated by a Western, in particular, Anglo-American focus oriented
towards the core of the global cultural industries. In order to
counterbalance this orientation, we invite papers analysing the relations
between gender and music — composition, music making, musical texts and
genres, music consumption, education and learning, the music industry,
music scenes and genres — in Central and East European societies, past and
present. We also welcome gender and music studies of local scenes in terms
of their position within global economic, political and social hierarchies,
as well as explorations of regional particularities and differences.



*3.    **Gender and the Music Industries*

The recent years have seen many initiatives – international and local,
academic as well as industry- or community-initiated – interrogating gender
inequalities in terms of opportunities, participation, access and
representation, as well as everyday sexism within the music industries. The
media events around the Harvey Weinstein scandal in the Hollywood film
industry and the following “MeToo” social media hashtag campaign also
generated multiple responses and actions from within the music industry.
The panel invites papers discussing the visibility of women, unequal
divisions of labour, sex segregation across musical professions, as well as
explorations of working conditions, experiences and narratives of women in
the music industries. We also welcome investigations of the relationship
between gender and the digitisation of the music industries, such as,
online (self-)representation; artist and fan relationships (including
gender and fan labour); gender and the uncertainty of digital
labour; digital curation – algorithmic as well as human, and gendered
practices in the fields of composition, music making and digital plus
online technology.



We invite scholars and experts in the field — musicians, educators, music
critics, and music industry professionals — to submit proposals relating to
the wide range of topics of “gender and music”. Abstracts of approximately 300
words (PDF format) presenting the subject, the conceptual framework and the
analytical approach along with a brief CV (one page at most) should be sent
to [email protected] by *20 September 2019.* Applicants
will receive a response regarding their submission by *20 October 2019.*



This conference is being organised by MusicaFemina International, the
Hungarian Artisjus Society, the Department of Sociology and Communication
of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the Department of
Sociology and Social Anthropology of Central European University, Budapest,
the Liszt Academy of Music and Department of Media and Communication of
Eötvös Loránd University. There is no participation fee and refreshments
will be provided for participants.



For further inquiries please email us at
[email protected]

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