CfP: Global Music Production in Times of Longevity: Aesthetics, Markets, Technologies, New Professional Competences and Transmission of Knowledge, Deadline: 30.06.2026

CfP: Global Music Production in Times of Longevity: Aesthetics, Markets, Technologies, New Professional Competences and Transmission of Knowledge
International seminar: 6th Seminar in the series Music (and Musicologies) in the 21st Century

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.

Full CfP: 20260211-Bando-Callforpapers-longevity-v02.pdf

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 to musica.comparata[at]cini.it. A notification of acceptance will be forwarded by end of July.

The deadline for submitting proposals for the conference “Global Music Production in Times of Longevity: Aesthetics, Markets, Technologies, New Professional Competences and Transmission of Knowledge” (IISMC, Fondazione Cini, Venice) has been extended to 30 June 2026

Timetable

Abstracts (200 words maximum) and biographical note to be received by 30 June 2026.
Notifications of acceptance will be given by end of July 2026.
The conference will be held 10-12 November 2026.