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Music and Racism in Europe

Race is among the most significant social categories that informs and organises understandings of music. Although there is an abundance of music research that deals with BIPOC minorities and, at least implicitly, also with race, fewer studies explicitly address how processes of for example racialisation, essentialisation, appropriation and exclusion in music and music research can effectively be categorised as racist. However, recently there has been an increasing interest in the issue of racism in the field of music and music scholarship and this online symposium brings together researchers and practitioners across disciplines and genres to discuss music and racism particularly as it relates to Europe.

In emphasising racism, rather than the notion of race, we want to encourage scholars to address the real-world consequences of the articulations of race in music and music scholarship. As we do not wish to merely contribute to narratives of victimization, the symposium will primarily include research that identifies institutional and structural forms of oppression and discrimination. Furthermore, acknowledging scholarship as an active part of civil society, we will discuss real-world approaches to dismantling racist structures. As such, the
symposium will also include a panel discussion organised in collaboration with Music Finland with participants that represent different aspects of the music industries. The panel will be moderated by Professor Anthony Kwame Harrison.

Submissions

We do not accept paper proposals anymore at this point. If you have been accepted to present at the symposium and wish to update your title abstract, please get in touch with the coordinators.

Registration and fees

Register as a participant between September 4 and October 18 on Eventbrite.

Fee for waged participants 35 EUR
Fee for unwaged participants 15 EUR

For unwaged participants unable to pay the discounted price, we are able to waive the ticket fee. Please contact us for a fee waiver.

Organisers 

The symposium is organised by Research Association Suoni and the Kone Foundation funded research project ”Music researchers in society: Advancing social justice through activist music research” in collaboration with University of Helsinki (Musicology), CEMFOR — Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism at Uppsala University, IASPM-Norden (International Association for the Study of Popular Music and Music Finland. 

Conference conveners and coordinators
Jasmine Kelekay, CEMFOR
Kim Ramstedt, Suoni

Organizing committee:
Kaj Ahlsved, Suoni / Umeå Universitet
Merja Hottinen, Music Finland
Sini Mononen, Suoni / University of Helsinki
Inka Rantakallio, University of Helsinki / Suoni
Saijaleena Rantanen, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki / Suoni
Katariina Sorsa, Music Finland
Juha Torvinen, University of Helsinki / Suoni
Susanna Välimäki, University of Helsinki / Suoni

Contact: kim.ramstedt@gmail.com / jasminekelekay@ucsb.edu