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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">HDR student-led symposium at RMIT in Melbourne (Australia)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Submit abstracts of 300 words to:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:moses.iten@student.rmit.edu.au"><span style="color:#000064">moses.iten@student.rmit.edu.au</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Symposium presented by Screen & Sound Cultures, RMIT, Melbourne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Global South Popular Music Perspectives</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Date: Friday 28 February, 2020</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Presentations from 9am to 5pm at the Garden Building, Bowen Street (above Streat Café), RMIT, with lunch provided, followed by DJ/VJ event at Loop Project Space & Bar featuring symposium participants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Seeking papers from researchers to be presented on popular music-making and performance from the perspective of the ‘Global South’. We are also soliciting presentations from<span style="background:white"> musicians,
producers, DJs, and sound system operators.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Submit abstracts of 300 words to:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:moses.iten@student.rmit.edu.au"><span style="color:#000064">moses.iten@student.rmit.edu.au</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by
15 January 2020</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The term “Global South” is deployed in scholarly discourses concerned with various connotations and critiques. We use it broadly here to refer to the nations and regions which had previously been called the “Developing”
or “Third World”. These are all contested terms, which we encourage participants to address. This symposium also recognises that popular music can travel across borders more freely than its producers, and this creates both positives and negatives which must
be carefully considered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">In the 21st century, in line with developments that are technological, political, and economic, there has been a growing scholarly interest in the diverse cultural industries of the Global South, especially in
popular music. To mention a few examples of known musical genres associated with the ‘Global South’, scholars have researched Bollywood, K-Pop, Reggae, Reggaeton, Kuduro, and Cumbia and the contexts in which they are situated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">This symposium is an opportunity to bring together researchers from multiple fields with practitioners to foster inter- and intra-disciplinary discussion, and examine multiple approaches to researching popular
music and the Global South.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Topics to be covered can include -- but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● music production techniques / technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● DiY / tinkering practices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● band cultures of the Global South<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● Music and cinema<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● Political economy of popular music industries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● Popular music media<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● Music-making amongst the diaspora<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● Institutionalised popular music industries vs the informal sectors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● Issues of gender and sexuality within the popular musics of the Global South<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● Networking and collaborations (social media platforms)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● Media ecologies surrounding the music scenes (i.e. socio-cultural contexts and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">political economies)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● Transnational collaborations and encounters (e.g.musical cultural exchange,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">cultural diplomacy, touring in the Global South)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● Cultures of sampling and repurposing sounds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● Development policy and music industries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">● De-westernizing creative labour studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The durations of presentations will be 20 mins (max). Multi-media presentations that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">include sound and video are encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Researchers outside Melbourne are encouraged to apply, but unfortunately we are unable to offer travel stipends or other financial support. The event will be free to attendees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ben Morgan</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">M: +61 423 791 874 | <a href="mailto:benjamin.morgan@student.rmit.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">benjamin.morgan@student.rmit.edu.au</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3777-351X" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3777-351X</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Recent publications:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Revenue, access, and engagement via the in-house curated Spotify playlist in Australia
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2019.1649678"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2019.1649678</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Whose tool for what purpose? The struggle for cultural industry infrastructure in Liberia</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351208598/chapters/10.4324/9781351208598-6"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351208598/chapters/10.4324/9781351208598-6</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#383838;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">It’s wrong to cut and paste Global North policies onto Africa’s music industries</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#383838;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://theconversation.com/its-wrong-to-cut-and-paste-global-north-policies-onto-africas-music-industries-123388"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://theconversation.com/its-wrong-to-cut-and-paste-global-north-policies-onto-africas-music-industries-123388</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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