Call kismif International Crossing Borders Conference of UndergroUnd MUsiC sCenes Dates Venues Keynotes Confirmed Conference Summer School Faculty of Arts Andy Bennett 15—17 Jul 2015 Gettin’ Underground and Humanities Dave Laing Together of University of Porto Dick Hebdige Abstracts Submission 13—14 Jul 2015 Jeder Janotti Jr. Casa da Música 05 Nov 2014—15 Feb 2015 Paul Hodkinson 1|3 e are pleased to announce the second development of social theory, but also in the interpretation kismif International Conference. of late modernity in times of contemporary societal and “Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (kismif) cultural crisis. The relation and enlargement of the arts to Crossing Borders of Underground social, cultural and political spheres seems to us a very Music Scenes” will take place in Porto, fruitful research platform and also offers the possibility for Portugal between 15th July to 17th July the consolidation of an emerging knowledge domain that 2015. The conference is associated with the research project responds to the challenges and social changes created by WKeep It Simple, Make It Fast! (ptdc/cs-soc/118830/2010). new technologies, and also reconfigurations of identity, gender, lifestyle, spatiality, social class, age, and ethnicity The submission of papers for this conference is open to as these map onto the networks, flows, art worlds, musical academic researchers working in all areas of sociology, and artistic fields, and underground music scenes that are anthropology, history, cultural economics, geography, urban main focus of the conference. The stimulating scientific planning, media and cultural studies and cognate disciplines, program of the conference will be accompanied by a social including the design, illustration musicology, popular music program in the form of art and music in action providing and visual and performing arts. This initiative follows the a unique and enriching experience of underground music great success of the first kismif conference (held in July, scenes in the city of Porto and elsewhere in the world. 2014). Keeping the focus on underground music and its creative possibilities for resistance and diy, we extend the The conference will be preceded by a two-day summer analysis of music scenes to consider the intersection and school (on 13th to 14th July) entitled “Gettin’ Underground debate with other cultural, artistic and creative fields (cinema Together!” (for more information about Summer School and video; graffiti and street art; theater and performance Gettin’ Underground Together click here). The summer art; literature and poetry; radio; graphic design, illustration, school will offer an opportunity for undergraduate and cartoon and comics; etc.). Thus, exploiting the potential of graduate students, including those staying on for the the theoretical and analytical development of the intersection conference, to attend specialist master classes and discuss of music scenes, we intend to enrich their relevance in the their research in seminars led by top academics in the field. The conference organizing 10. New intermediate and artistic Instructions committee welcomes abstracts production in the city and space relating to the following topics: 11. Territorial mechanisms on music production, intermediation Abstracts must be written in English 1. Developments in social theory and consumption (the presentation of work in the around networks, flows, art worlds, 12. New dynamics of social Conference can be made in English musical fields, artistic fields, inclusion through music and or Portuguese), having approximately underground music scenes underground art practices 250 words, and include 3-5 keywords. Abstracts should be sent along 2. Historicity, genealogy and 13. Music and arts for social change, with a brief biographical note of the diachrony of music scenes and the arts and arts communities authors (100 words). We ask the art worlds from the post-war as part of urban culture participants to submit the abstracts period to the present day 14. Pedagogies and methodologies and contacts until 15th February 2015, 3. Researching music: methodological based on the underground in the virtual conference platform: challenges and dilemmas 15. Practices of resistance, and 4. Subcultures, tribes, neo-tribes contemporary countercultural kismif.eventqualia.net and underground scenes youth identities 5. Contradictions and tensions 16. New social movements, between the underground music and other artistic and mainstream scenes (local and global) 6. DIY Careers: alternative 17. Punk, post punk, metal, electro, forms of musical, artistic and funk, rap, hip hop: new musical cultural entrepreneurship and artistic boundaries 7. Style, aesthetic and 18. Experimental music and new musical corporeality ethnographies of meaning 8. Music scenes, art worlds: 19. Gatekeeping mechanisms, aging and gender reputation building and (de) 9. Memory, technologies and the territorialization of cultural scenes cultural and creative industries 20. Migrations, diasporas and identities: the role of music through the world 2|3 Important Dates Conference Summer School Submission 05 Nov 2014 Submission 05 Nov 2014 of abstracts —15 Feb 2015 of applications —15 Feb 2015 Opening 05 Nov 2014 Notification of 15 Mar 2015 of registrations applications approval Notification of abstracts 15 Mar 2015 Deadline for early 15 Apr 2015 approval registration Deadline for early 15 Apr 2015 Deadline for normal 15 Jun 2015 registration registration Deadline for registration 15 Apr 2015 Summer School 13—14 Jul 2015 of conference presenters Deadline for all other 15 Jun 2015 delegates International Conference 15—17 Jul 2015 For more information kismif.eventqualia.net facebook.com/kismif.conference2014 punk.pt/conference-2/ [email protected] kismif kismif kismif Convenors Scientific Committee Executive Committee Andy Bennett (au) Alastair Gordon, Andy Bennett, Ana Oliveira, Ana Raposo, Esgar Paula Guerra (pt) Augusto Santos Silva, Carles Feixa, Acelerado, Gil Fesch, João Queirós, Heitor Alvelos, Jeder Janotti Jr., José Marcos Farrajota, Paula Abreu, Machado Pais, Júlio Dolbeth, João Paula Guerra, Pedro Costa, Pedro Queirós, Luís Fernandes, Manuel Miguel Ferreira, Pedro Quintela, Loff, Matt Worley, Mike Dines, Paula Ricardo Salazar, Rui Telmo Gomes, Abreu, Paula Guerra, Pedro Costa, Tânia Moreira, Vítor Massa Rui Telmo Gomes and Will Straw Organizers Partners kismif (portugal) / institute of sociology portugal) / centre for the study of foundation for science and technology (fct, - university of porto (is-up, portugal) geography and spatial planning (cegot, portugal) / department of sociology faculty portugal) / centre for social studies – of arts and humanities - university of porto university of coimbra (ces-uc, portugal) / (portugal) / casa da música / eventqualia polytechnic institute of tomar (ipt, portugal) (portugal) / preguiça magazine (portugal) / Co-Organizers / university of lleida (spain) / laboratory futureplaces (portugal) / punk scholars of analysis of music and audiovisual network (psn, united kingdom) / the griffith centre for cultural research (lama-ppgcom-ufpe, brazil) / graduate interdisciplinary network for the (gccr) - griffith university (australia) / program in communication of the study of subcultures, popular music centre for socioeconomic change and federal university of pernambuco and social change (subcultures territorial studies (dinâmia’cet – iul, (ppgcom-ufpe, brazil) network, united kingdom) 3|3.