It’s with a great pleasure, the Coordination of KISMIF International Conference announces the Advanced Seminar ANOTHER MUSIC IN A DIFFERENT ROOM to be held in Porto, between July 14th and July 16th, 2014. The organisation of this Advanced Seminar will be undertaken by the Research Project Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! The opportunity to initiate the Advanced Seminar is related to the realization o
f KISMIF International Conference, and the possibility of deepening both theoretical and methodological questions in both proximity and dialogue with some of the main world references of the urban musical scenes. OBJECT:
State of the art of urban musical scenes. This advanced seminar is the result of a series of developed works in the last decade within the framework of social sciences, namely Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Arts, Sociology of Youth, Urban Sociology and Sociology of Music. Hence, it is important to understand the importance, functioning, process, the agents, characteristics, genres and subgenres of the current urban music scenes. This will lead to a insightful debate about its mains aspects and structuring guidelines. Since the publication of the of the emblematic book Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual by Andy Bennett and Richard A. Peterson in the last decade, this will be the first decisive moment of systematization of the transformations of music scenes from the presentation of this work until now. The music scenes invite us to map the territory of the city in new ways while, at the same time, defining types of activity whose relationship with the territory is not easily expressed. There exists a contradiction between the growing visibility of the urban music scenes and its persistent illegitimacy as a sociological object of investigation. Such a contradiction is a research challenge to pursuit. OBJECTIVES:
# Explore the concept of the contemporary music scene, understand its dynamics and the challenges
of the transformations of different social, historical and geographical contexts.
# Apply techniques and methodologies of analysis and research of urban music scenes.
# Identify and approach the axis of analysis in the configuration of the urban music scene: aging,
gender, social integration, careers, professionalization, amateur activities, risks and DIY cultures.
# Analyse and systematize emblematic cases of local, trans-local and virtual scenes.
# Discover the newest developments in cultural policies concerning urban music scenes, namely
a paradigm regarding constant musical dematerialization.
