The Musical Salon in Visual Culture

7-9 septembre 2016, Saint-Pétersbourg

16th International Conference of Association Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM). Rimsky-Korsakov Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

The Conference addresses topics related to the musical salon in visual culture not bound to a specific geographical area or period, including but not limited to:

case studies of specific visual representations of musical salons.

techniques and strategies to represent musical salons and their activity.

the impact of the musical salon on society and culture as transmitted through the visual.

the visualisation of music within depictions of musical salons.

the visualisation of performance and organology matters within visual musical salon scenes.

the role of gender, race and class in the visualisation of the musical salon.

music and corporeal experience within the private space (as represented in the iconography of the musical salon).

the visualisation of the sociability of the musical salon.

the visualisation of emotions of the musical salon.

the imaginary of the musical salon.

The full version of the call for papers is published in English and Russian at: https://ridim.org/association-ridim-conference-2015.

Abstracts in English along with a short biography should be submitted via the automatised application form (available at https://ridim.org/application-form-ridim-2015-conference/) by 1 April 2016.

Successful applicants will be notified by 1 May 2016.

Association Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM)

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www.ridim.org