CfP: Global Music Production in Times of Longevity (10.-12.11.2026, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice) Deadline: 15.06.2026
Global Music Production in Times of Longevity: Aesthetics, Markets, Technologies, New Professional Competences and Transmission of Knowledge
An event organised by the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies, Fondazione Giorgio Cini and supported by Griffith University, Brisbane, the University of Exeter, UK and the University of Colorado Boulder.
The conference will bring together scholars from interdisciplinary perspectives: musicologists, ethnomusicologists, popular music scholars, sociologists, experts in music and well-being, specialists in neuroscience applied to music, anthropologists, musicians, and cultural activists. Extensive research in music psychology, historiography, and aesthetics demonstrates how musicians and music-makers can experience a more active later life, enhanced psychophysical well-being, and greater creative freedom and innovation. This meeting aims to investigate how demographic change shapes musical production from concerts to media, how demographic change from “nostalgia” effects to the persistence of musical practices over time, how it leads to the development of new sound production, communication technologies and creates new professions. Understanding different adaptation strategies and cultural policies through intercultural comparisons – for example, in China, Japan, the Amazon rainforest, sub-Saharan Africa, and not only in the Western world – can help us understand how societies engage with global population aging and what role sound and music play (and can play) in these processes.
Abstracts and Texts
An abstract of 150-200 words with 3-5 keywords and brief biographical note (max. 100 words) should be submitted in English by the 15th June 2026 to musica[dot]comparata[at]cini[dot]it. A notification of acceptance will be forwarded by end of July.
Timetable
Abstracts (200 words maximum) and biographical note to be received by 15 June 2026.
Notifications of acceptance will be given by end of July 2026.
The conference will be held 10-12 November 2026.