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Dear Rhythm Changes delegates and interested others,The COVID-19 pandemic forces us to postpone the seventh Rhythm Changes conference Jazz Now! once again by a year. We are terribly sorry.
We have come to the conclusion that August comes too early for such a large event. There are too many uncertainties around travel restrictions, admission policy at our conference venue (Conservatory of Amsterdam), hotel capacity in the city, etc.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Rhythm Changes conferences, we will host a free, interactive online event, 26 August 2021, 16:00–18:00 (4–6 PM Central European Time): youtu.be/M24aBiGT2VY. You are cordially invited, and we look forward to seeing you all there. Mark your calendar!
Keep an eye on our digital platforms for the programme, links, and updates:
Web: www.rhythmchanges.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/jazzresearch/
Twitter: @rhythmchanges
YouTube live stream: youtu.be/M24aBiGT2VY
We will also circulate a new Call for Papers. Prospective dates for 2022 are August 25–28.
Best wishes, and stay healthy!
Loes Rusch
Walter van de Leur
Conference directors
rhythmchanges@ahk.nl
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A live, interactive event to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Rhythm Changes conferences. This event builds on the legacy of the research project Rhyth...
Call for PapersCelebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Institute for Jazz Research
"Jazz Re:Search in 21st-Century Academia and Beyond"
13th International Jazz Research Conference, Graz (Austria)
18—21 November 2021
Hosted by the Institute for Jazz Research and the International Society for Jazz Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
Founded in 1971, the Institute for Jazz Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG) is a historic cornerstone of academic jazz research. Along with similar institutions, like the Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies (founded 1966), the Institute helped to pave the way for and profoundly shape the discipline known as “jazz studies”, bearing witness to its transformation from a decidedly musicological to an inter-, even transdisciplinary investigation into what has been understood as jazz in their respective times.
Not only have the people, practices, sounds and settings of jazz changed considerably since then, developments such as the increasingly capitalist character of academia, the globalization of knowledge and the blurring of disciplinary boundaries continue to influence the present and future of jazz studies.
On the occasion of its 50th anniversary and as host of the 13th International Jazz Research Conference, the Institute for Jazz Research invites the submission of papers that celebrate, reflect, enhance and advance the study of jazz, both within and outside academia. We welcome papers addressing the conference theme from multiple perspectives, including musicology, cultural studies, jazz history, media studies, sociology, music analysis and practice-based research. Within the general theme, we have identified several sub-themes; please clearly identify which you are referring to in your proposal.
Re: Fwd: Jazz Research
In recent decades, jazz research has developed into a broad, interdisciplinary field of research, encompassing a multitude of different research approaches. This strand covers global historiographies of jazz research, including the examination of writings about jazz (research), the work of jazz archives and private archival practices and the wider (political) role of scholars, jazz institutions and jazz practitioners in the field. It furthermore explores future perspectives, issues and methodologies (e.g. the digitalization of jazz research), as well as the status of jazz studies in academia and beyond.
The Jazz in Jazz Studies: Boundaries and Synergies
Historically, debates about the nature of the ‘real’ jazz, for study purposes, have shaped the contours of the discipline. But what happens once we widen our scope, including musics from ‘other’ people and ‘other’ regions in our research? Given the local contexts of KUG (e.g. ethnomusicology, popular music studies, music pedagogy, jazz practice and performance practice in contemporary music) and its networks into South-East Europe, this strand invites papers that discuss the synergies and challenges that musical border-crossing entails, from the standpoint of methodology, politics, aesthetics, stylistics, nationality, ethnicity or other related issues.
Jazz Studies and Gender
While research has characterized the jazz world as male-dominated, no sufficient solution for the achievement of gender equality has been formulated so far. To address this damaging gap in jazz scholarship, in cooperation with the KUG’s Centre for Gender Studies, this strand explores questions of jazz studies and gender, including historical and contemporary gender relations, (non-male) perspectives on gender-related jazz studies, and the work and significance of women and members of the queer community in jazz. This theme aims to raise awareness of women and people of non-binary gender in jazz and jazz research, and to generally increase sensitivity for gender issues among (male) scholars.
Sites of Jazz (Research)
Jazz takes place at a multitude of sites, ranging from the physical (clubs, concert halls, festivals, music schools) to the virtual (television, radio and the internet) to the conceptual (networks, collectives, aesthetics, sounds). Therefore, the sites for jazz research and its respective approaches are just as variable. This strand covers investigations about/at various public and private forums for jazz and discusses their impact on applied jazz research, such as artistic research (an international Artistic Jazz Research Network has been founded from within Austria).
Formats and Submissions
• Individual paper (20 min. + 10 min. discussion): abstract of no more than 250 words
• Joint panel (60 min. + 30 min. discussion): themed session with three individual papers of 20 min. each; abstracts max. 250 words per paper, plus a session overview of max. 250 words
• Round table session (60 min. + 30 min. discussion): outlining abstract of up to 400 words
Please submit proposals together with a short biography (max. 50 words) and institutional affiliation as a Word document to Christa Bruckner-Haring and André Doehring at jazzresearch2021@kug.ac.at, subject line “proposal jazz re:search conference”. Given the arrival of vaccinations in the first half of 2021 to bring the current COVID-19 pandemic under control, we plan to host the conference live and in person in Graz. Updates on the conference (including possible online or hybrid scenarios) will be communicated in a timely manner.
The deadline for proposals is 1 April 2021; outcomes will be communicated to authors by 15 May 2021. All submissions will be considered by the conference committee, consisting of Christa Bruckner-Haring, André Doehring, Magdalena Fürnkranz, Franz Krieger, Loes Rusch, Tony Whyton, and members of ISJ’s executive committee. Proceedings will be published as Vol. 52 of the institute’s publication series Jazzforschung / Jazz Research.
The conference will be held together with the 41st Radio Jazz Research Conference that discusses the work of internationally renowned musician and musicologist Ekkehard Jost, themed “Social History in Jazz”. Jost willed his musicological and musical estate to the Institute for Jazz Research, where the “Ekkehard Jost Archive” will be officially opened during the conference.
Updates on the conference and information about travel and accommodation will be available at jazzforschung.kug.ac.at/ and www.facebook.com/Jazzforschung/.
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Das Grazer Institut für Jazzforschung ist mit seinen Ursprüngen im Jahr 1965 eines der ältesten und bekanntesten Jazzforschungsinstitute weltweit. Zielsetzung unserer Arbeit ist die Etablierung und Entwicklung der Jazzforschung als ein eigenständiger, dabei interdisziplinär orientierter Bereich der Musikwissenschaft. Unsere Schwerpunkte liegen in der Beschäftigung mit Jazz und populärer Musik, die in historischer, sozialer, kultureller und theoretischer Perspektive erforscht werden. Eine weithin anerkannte Spezifität der hiesigen Arbeit stellt die auf Transkriptionen basierende strukturelle Analyse von Genres und Personalstilistiken dar.
Unser Archiv wird von internationalen ForscherInnen wie Studierenden geschätzt, denn es umfasst eine Fachbibliothek mit ca. 5.800 Druckwerken und eine Mediathek mit etwa 42.500 Ton- und Bildträgern (20.000 LPs, 20.300 CDs, 1.200 Videos, DVDs, Tonbänder und Schellackplatten).
Seit mehreren Jahrzehnten informiert das Institut die Fachwelt durch drei renommierte Publikationsreihen, die in Kooperation mit der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Jazzforschung (IGJ) herausgegeben werden: Das Jahrbuch Jazzforschung / Jazz Research legt seit seiner Erstausgabe im Jahr 1969 derzeit den 46. Band vor, die Reihe Beiträge zur Jazzforschung / Studies in Jazz Research hat seit 1969 14 Monografien veröffentlicht und der Newsletter Jazz Research News befindet sich seit seinem Start im Jahr 2000 in der 49. Ausgabe.
Unsere derzeitigen Forschungsinteressen zielen auf die Zusammenhänge von Jazz und populärer Musik mit sozialen und kulturellen Entwicklungen in verschiedenen Teilen der Welt, insbesondere Europa, Nord- und Lateinamerika. Um diese Forschungen voranzutreiben und die Erkenntnisse mit der internationalen Fachwelt auszutauschen, veranstaltet das Institut seit 1969 regelmäßig Konferenzen. Außerdem haben zahlreiche transnationale Projekte und Kooperationen zum Ruf des Instituts als ein Zentrum der Jazzforschung beigetragen. In der Tradition von grundlegender und innovativer Forschung mit einem internationalen Fokus bleibt unser Ziel, die zentrale Position in der nationalen wie auch internationalen Jazz- und Popularmusikforschung zu stärken und auszubauen.Brought to you by…
Rhythm Changes was originally financially supported by the HERA Joint Research Programme which is co-funded by AHRC, AKA, DASTI, ETF, FNR, FWF, HAZU, IRCHSS, MHEST, NWO, RANNIS, RCN, VR and The European Community FP7 2007-2013, under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities programme.