Listening to Germany and Austria

October 3-6, 2019, Portland

The Music and Sound Studies Network of the German Studies Association (GSA) invites proposals from scholars for the 43nd Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon in October 3-6, 2019. We welcome proposals that consider the many different histories, politics, and experiences of listening in German-speaking communities Germany and Austria from a number of interdisciplinary approaches. We especially welcome projects that focus on noise and sound as much as on music. 

We invite papers on a wide range of topics, including:

• Technologies of Listening: how have technologies changed listening practices in the German-speaking world.
• Listening to Popular Culture: how have pop music, techno, television shows, podcasts, radio-plays, and other sound-based media generated new audiences and experiences?
• Historiographies of Listening: how do we discuss how we listen? How are listening narratives developed, preserved, and challenged over time?
• Listening while Placebound: what are the differences between site-specific sound versus transient sound?
• Hearing Icons: what makes something or someone sound iconic? How have iconic sounds or figures been generated and listened to?
• Who Cares If You Listen: how does audience reception affect listening practices?
• Listening to the Past: What does sound uniquely reveal about the past?

Deadline: Friday, January 18, 2019.

Please email your title and abstract of about 250 words to Jeff Hayton (jeff.hayton -at- wichita.edu), David Imhoof (imhoof -at- susqu.edu), Kira Thurman (thurmank -at- umich.edu), or Amy Wlodarski (wlodarsa -at- dickinson.edu).

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