Gettin’ Underground Together!

Dates:
13-14 July 2015

Venues:
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto, Portugal

KISMIF Convenors:
Andy Bennett and Paula Guerra.

KISMIF Scientific Committee:
Alastair Gordon, Andy Bennett, Augusto Santos Silva, Carles Feixa, Heitor Alvelos, Jeder Janotti Jr., João Queirós, José Machado Pais, Júlio Dolbeth, Luís Fernandes, Manuel Loff, Matt Worley, Mike Dines, Paula Abreu, Paula Guerra, Paulo Cunha e Silva, Pedro Costa, Rui Telmo Gomes and Will Straw.

KISMIF Executive Committee:
Ana Oliveira, Ana Raposo, Esgar Acelerado, Gil Fesch, Guilherme Blanc, João Queirós, Marcos Farrajota, Paula Abreu, Paula Guerra, Pedro Costa, Pedro Miguel Ferreira, Pedro Quintela, Ricardo Salazar, Rui Telmo Gomes, Tânia Moreira, Vítor Massa.

Guest Speakers confirmed:

The KISMIF Conference 2015 will be preceded by a two-day Summer School entitled Gettin’ Underground Together!.

The Summer School Gettin’ Underground Together! will offer an opportunity for all students (bachelor, master, doctorate, postdoctoral students), including those staying on for the conference, to attend specialist master classes and discuss their research work in seminars led by top academics in the field. It is also 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
This Summer School 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, Sociology of Music, Cultural Economics, Urban Studies and Urban Planning. Hence, it is important to understand the importance, functioning, process, the agents, characteristics, genres and subgenres of the current urban music scenes. The music scenes invite us to map the territory of the city in new ways while, at the same time, defining types of activities 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 (and also in social sciences, in a broader sense). Such a contradiction is a research challenge to pursuit. This will lead to an insightful debate about its mains aspects and structuring guidelines.

We welcome proposals discussing the crossing borders of underground music scenes from the standpoint of the following work sessions, amongst others:
• Genealogy of underground music scenes: local, global, translocal and affective
• Music scenes, memory, heritage and archives
• Music scenes, gender and aging
• Music scenes and DIY careers
• Music scenes, authenticity and independence
• Music scenes, youth cultures and subcultures
• Music scenes, political activism, resistance and new social movements
• Music scenes, aesthetics, bodies and affections
• Music scenes, punk scenes, fanzines, e-zines and comics
• Music scenes between the digital, the retro, the ephemera and the nostalgia
• Music scenes, production, mediation, consumption and fruition in the contemporaneity
• Music scenes, communities, identities and urban cultures
• Spatial organization and territorial structuring mechanisms of music scenes

For more information about KISMIF Summer School, click here.