Human and More-than-Human Entanglements:
Popular Music Performance, Education, and Technologies

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Currently, there is a wealth of research on how humans engage with each other in popular music. However, less has been explored in popular music studies regarding interactions with non-human or more-than-human entities. The more-than-human is understood as one that is both internally and externally experienced, with an emphasis on positionality within and beyond the human body. In music studies, explorations of the more-than-human can be observed in the growing interdisciplinary fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, ecomusicology and multispecies ethnography (Allen, 2013; Titon, 2013; Allen & Dawe, 2016) – especially that of indigenous sonic worlds, traditional music, and current discourses on virtual world(s). As such, this call poses the following query: How does Southeast Asian popular music directly deal with more-than-human relationships as a fundamental part of being in the world alongside producing and performing strategies of place-making and musicking?

This conference looks to explore tangential modes of how we relate to and situate ourselves in the world by considering the diverse aspects of popular music research. The theme proposes an examination of human and more-than-human sonic entanglements, their perception, adoption, and embodiment in cultures, practices, institutions and disciplines. This trajectory endeavours to facilitate holistic discussions around music’s interdisciplinary nature by introducing novel and contemporary approaches, solutions and questions that exist within and beyond Southeast Asia. Additionally, this conference aims to foster collaborative deliberations and conceptualisations among researchers to address such human and more-than-human entanglements through virtual, ethnographic, pedagogical, virtual and the numerous modalities that comprise the evolving field of popular music studies and beyond.

Points of reflection:

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Presentation formats and Submissions

• Individual Paper 
• Organised Panel (3-4 papers) 
• Roundtable (3-5 papers)
• Laboratory¹ (5-8 participants) 
• Poster Presentations
• Performance lectures, music workshops, films 
• Other forms of creative outputs are welcome and will be considered.

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Submit an abstract for a presentation in one of the above listed formats (between 200-250 words) along with a short biographical note (100 words). Organisers of panels and roundtables must submit a statement on the focus of the panel/roundtable along with an abstract from each presenter and their respective biographical notes.

Venue

Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University is a non-profit, public university officially established in 2004.  The university is named after Somdet Chao Phraya Borommaha Sri Suriyawong, who served as the regent during the early years of the reign of King Rama IX(1953-1910). It was established in 1896 as Ban Somdet Chao Phraya School and renamed to be a teacher training school as Wittaya Kru Bansomdej Chao Phraya in 1958, which is commonly known as “Bansomdej,” and it has had a famous music education program both in Thai classical and western music for decades. The university is located on the west side of the Chao Phraya River, which was once Thonburi province and is now part of Bangkok. Thonburi district remained less developed than the other side of the river. The old palace, temple, mosque, and church can still be found in an area nearby the university.

Organising Committee

Programme Committee

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1. Laboratories are closed meetings for participants to develop a cohesive interdisciplinary research output (e.g. publications, teaching plans, workshops). Laboratories run for half a day and consist of a moderator and five to eight participants. During a dedicated session of the conference, moderators will present the findings of the laboratory sessions to a larger audience. PLEASE CONTACT US AT iaspm.sea.conference@gmail.com BEFORE SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT. ↩︎