Conference: Gendering Music Matter. Power, Affects, and Infrastructures of Music Industries

The gender gap in the music industry has been evident, measurable, and publicly discussed for many years. However, public discussions and policy initiatives on 'gender inequality' and 'gender balance' often focus on increasing the number of women and gender non-conforming professional. This focus leaves the patriarchal infrastructures and cultures of the music industries unchanged and unchallenged.

This three-day conference insists on the importance of shifting the analytical focus - at least for a moment - away from the numbers, skills, talents, and productions of individuals in order to look towards their embeddedness and orientation in gendered, social, economic, and historical conventions.

By bringing together intersectional fields of music studies, we hope to bring new perspectives to questions of power, affect and the infrastructures of the music industries.

We therefore invite a broad range of speakers working with, for instance, feminist musicology, gender studies, ethnomusicology/music anthropology, popular music studies, organizational anthropology, cultural-historical activity theory, critical race theory, affect theory, infrastructure theory, queer and post-phenomenology, disability studies, sound studies, post-structuralism, queer theory, platform studies, actor-network theory, science and technology studies, music history, and music pedagogy.

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