The role of institutions and the institutional process in music history

6-8 juin 2018, Helsinki
Proposal deadline: September 30, 2017
https://sites.uniarts.fi/web/inst2018/home
Conference venue: Music Centre Helsinki, Finland

Inside, Outside, and in Between: Institutionalization in Music History. Fifth Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History.

The fifth Sibelius Academy symposium on music history focuses on issues relating to the cultural control and cultural norms that have been—and still are—established by musical institutions.

Proposals for 20-minute individual papers as well as group sessions of 3 to 4 presenters are invited on any of the following topics:

The power exerted by cultural institutions

The institutionalization of music practices

Close reading of musical scores and institutional practices

The consecration given to musicians by public or state institutions

Hierarchical institutions vs. non-hierarchical networks

Histories of musical institutions

Institutions and technocracy

The role of educational institutions

What counts as a musical institution? When did they first arise?

Keynote speakers of the symposium are

Olle Edström (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): Music History, Institutions and Taste – Three Cases: 1800, 1900, and 2000

Avra Xepapadakou (University of Crete, Greece): Towards the Institutionalization of Musical Life in Nineteenth-Century Greece and Southeastern Europe

Jim Samson (Royal Holloway University of London): Institutionalizing Music Theory: Two Historical Moments

Proposal submission: please use the link https://www.lyyti.in/inst2018-proposal for submitting your proposal and a short bio by September 30, 2017.

Proposal length:

individual presentation proposals: max 2200 characters, incl. spaces;

panel session proposals: max 2500 characters, incl. spaces + each panelist's proposal 2000 characters, incl. spaces.  

The organizing committee will be in touch no later than November 3, 2017 with the information about acceptances.

Contact for inquiries (no proposal submissions): inst2018 -at- uniarts.fi

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Mercredi 15 Juillet, 2026