Conference Announcement: Rhythm Changes Conference II

Manchester, UK, 11-14 April 2013
Title: Rhythm Changes Conference II and Call for Papers

The second Rhythm Changes Conference will be held at Media City UK/University of Salford on 11-14 April 2013. This international conference is hosted by the Rhythm Changes research project at the University of Salford.
This cross disciplinary event will be the largest jazz research conference ever hosted, featuring c.90 presentations across a four-day period.

Speakers will be E. Taylor Atkins (Northern Illinois University) and David Ake (University of Nevada, Reno), Tony Whyton (Salford Music Research Centre) and many more iternational experts.

 

As stated on the rhythm changes website “Rethinking Jazz Cultures is a three day multi-disciplinary conference that brings together leading researchers in the fields of jazz studies, media and cultural studies, history and American studies.”

You can find the final program here.

You can register for the conference right here.

Possible topics and discussions will focus on these and related themes:
• Jazz, Americanization and the politics of globalization
• Sonic cultural identities (African American, the Nordic Tone, South African jazz etc.)
• Jazz cosmopolitanism
• Migration and trans-cultural exchange
• Jazz scenes, contexts and places
• Sub-cultural practices
• Genre boundaries and hybridity
• Trans-national or post-national jazz sounds
• Postcolonial settings for jazz
• Jazz collectives and communities
• Media dissemination and the spread of jazz culture
• Venues, festivals and the dynamics of culture
• Jazz, censorship and political struggle
• Jazz in urban and rural spaces
• Jazz traditions
• Cultural politics of jazz
• Cultural memory and jazz
• Revising jazz history

For further information on the Rhythm Changes project, please contact the Project Leader, Professor Tony Whyton.