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Global Hip Hop Studies special issue: “Hip-Hop Diaspora: Memory, Technology and the Politics of Electric Infrastructure”

Seeking work on #HipHop, infrastructure, analogue/digital practices, archives, energy humanities, diasporic sound systems, and technological precarity across the Global South.

Deadline: 01/08/2026

https://www.intellectbooks.com/global-hip-hop-studies#call-for-papers

#HipHopStudies #SoundStudies #DigitalHumanities #DiasporaStudies #PopularMusic

Global Hip Hop Studies

Global Hip Hop Studies; Global Hip Hop Studies (GHHS) is a Diamond Open Access, peer-reviewed, rigorous and community-responsive academic journal that publishes research on contemporary as well as historical issues and debates surrounding hip hop music and culture around the world, twice annually. GHHS is Open Access through a Subscribe to Open (S2O) model and does not charge APCs or submission fees. To access the journal for free or for more information visit the Discover platform here. Facebook: Global Hip Hop StudiesTwitter: @GHHSJournal GHHS is supported by the European Research Council and University College Cork, Ireland. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Submission guidelines can be found below in a downloadable file titled 'Notes for Contributors'. The submissions portal can be found by scrolling down and selecting 'Submit'.

Intellect Books

n_______d May 19

(5) now imagine a monochrome supermarket.
entire aisles of identical packages.
rows of grayscale promises.
all stripped of urgency.

#mastodon #art #soundart #visualculture #perception #mediaart #waysOfSeeing #johnberger #barthes #semiotics #visualstudies #design #packaging #consumerculture #aesthetics #contemporaryart #criticaltheory #mediaecology #visualtheory #sensoryexperience #fooddesign #graphicdesign #soundstudies #culturaltheory #everydayaesthetics

Sounding Future May 8

A new long-read on @soundingfuture: Gerriet K. Sharma — composer, co-founder of spæs Lab Berlin — on the IKO as a genuine instrument.

https://www.soundingfuture.com/en/article/sound-space-interview-gerriet-k-sharma-spaes-lab-berlin
#ElectroacousticMusic #ComputerMusic #Ambisonics #SpatialAudio #SoundArt #IKO #3DAudio #SoundStudies

Petr Nuska May 4

#CFP

Global Music Production in Times of Longevity

📍 Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini
📅 10–12 November 2026

Interdisciplinary seminar on music, aging, and demographic change, addressing production, markets, technologies, aesthetics, and intergenerational knowledge transmission.

Deadline: 15/06/2026

https://www.cini.it/en/cini_news/global-music-production-in-times-of-longevity-aesthetics-markets-technologies-new-professional-competences-and-transmission-of-knowledge/

#Ethnomusicology #MusicStudies #AgingStudies #SoundStudies

Neural Apr 30

edited by Lawrence English , Robert Takahashi Novak – Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific

https://neural.it/2026/04/edited-by-lawrence-english-robert-takahashi-novak-energy-fields-vibrations-of-the-pacific/

#sensoryart #antenna
#signalprocessing
#audioart
#binaural
#electromagnetic
#electronicinstruments
#interference
#microphones
#sampling
#audiorecording
#transmissionart
#soundfrequency
#sound #soundart #soundartist #klangkunst
#soundinstallation #soundartinstallation
#soundscapes #acousticspace #sonicworld
#vibration
#audiology #soundscience
#soundstudies

https://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/3340

Petr Nuska Apr 27

#CFP
Music in the (Sub-)Arctic

📍 Oxford
📅 7–8 September 2026

Interdisciplinary conference on music, sound, climate, Indigenous expression, and geopolitics in Arctic and sub-Arctic contexts.

Deadline: 15/05/2026

https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-09-07-music-in-the-sub-arctic

#Ethnomusicology
#SoundStudies #ArcticStudies #IndigenousStudies

Music in the (sub-)Arctic

Petr Nuska Apr 27

#CFP

Musical Commemorations/Contestations

Special issue on music, memory, identity, and power in postcolonial contexts, exploring commemorative and contested sonic practices.

Deadline: 01/05/2026

https://www.inetmd.pt/en/diffusion/cfp-musical-commemorations-contestations-in-postcolonial-contexts-negotiating-memory-identity-and-power/

#Ethnomusicology #PostcolonialStudies #MemoryStudies #SoundStudies

CfP: Musical Commemorations/Contestations in Postcolonial Contexts: Negotiating Memory, Identity, and Power – INET-md

scholar_farmer Apr 26

Today's blog post: Pandemic music was not always about remembrance. Sometimes it was about distraction: parody songs, TikTok dances, sea shanties, Boccaccio, and the long, liminal hours in the shade of crisis. Plus a Kermit the Frog reference.

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

#PandemicMusic #Musicology #CulturalMemory #SoundStudies #blog #research #distraction #CulturalAmnesia #Boccaccio #TikTok #parody