Conference calls for papers and presentation lineups can often be inspiring and catalyze discussion or action in music education. The Creativity, Circulation and Copyright: Sonic and Visual Media in the Digital Age taking place at Cambridge University looks to be like one of those conferences! The issues under discussion are close to my research and teaching, particularly in the Digital and Participatory Culture in Music Education course I facilitate at ASU so I am definitely looking forward to when these papers are published! In the meantime it is good to know that such important issues are being discussed. Music educators might benefit from thinking about and having conversations in relation to the topics being addressed in these papers. I recommend taking a look at the paper abstracts, but in the meantime see below for the titles of the presentations. rag
To what extent are we addressing these issues in US music classrooms or ensembles? How are we incorporating related engagement and thinking in our programs?
DAY 1 – 28 March 2014 *
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| 8.45 – 9.00 |
Registration |
| 9.00 – 10.30 |
SESSION 1
- Kiri Miller (Brown University): Dance Like the Xbox is Watching
- John Richardson (University of Turku)
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| 10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 |
CONCURRENT PANELS 1
a. Sampling & Mashup
- Justin Morey (Leeds Metropolitan University): Examining emerging forms of creative practice among UK sampling composers in response to copyright management
- Frédéric Döhl (Freie Universität Berlin): A Question of Context and Aura. About Copyright Laws Reaction to Digital Composing with Second Hand Sounds – with Special Regard to Mashup
- Bernd Justin Jütte (University of Luxemboug): The EU’s trouble with mashups: From disabling to enabling a digital art form
b. Copyright Regimes
- Keith Negus / John Street / Adam Behr: Digitisation and the Politics of Copying in Popular Music Culture
- Emmanuel Nnamani (University of Cambridge): ‘Better in the open than in the barn’? – Perspectives on creativity, copyright protection and the music industry in contemporary Nigeria
- Dave Laing / John Street: Copyright, Collective Management Organisations and cultural diversity in the single European digital music market
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| 12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch |
| 13.30 – 15.00 |
SESSION 2
- Lionel Bently (University of Cambridge): De-naturalizing Musical Authorship
- Ananay Aguilar (University of Cambridge): The Value of Performance in Law: Performer’s Rights and Creativity
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| 15.00 – 15.30 |
Tea break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 |
CONCURRENT PANELS 2
a. Virtual Archives: Youtube and the Cloud
- Daniel Gouly (SOAS): Soundcloud Users: an Ethnography
- Maarten Michielse (Maastricht University): Networking Songs – Participatory Cover Practices on YouTube
- Héctor Fouce (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Bedroom stars. An inquiry on “Su Morenito 19” viral success and the exploitation of its copyright
b. Digital Participation
- Mark Thorley (Coventry University): Participatory music culture: the challenges for identity, reward and recognition
- Justin Williams / Ross Wilson (Bristol University): Music and Crowdfunded Websites: Digital Patronage and Artist-Fan Interactivity
- Sam Bennett (Australian National University): Virtual Remixing: Competition, Creative Commons and Copyright
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| 17.00 -17.15 |
Short break (for equipment set-up) |
| 17.15 – 18.00 |
Alan Blackwell & Sam Aaron: Take a little walk to the edge of town: A live-coded audiovisual mashup’ |
| 18.00 – 19.00 |
OUP book launch:
- The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (2013)
- The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013)
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| 19.00 – 21.30 |
Dinner |
DAY 2 – 29 March 2014
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| 9.00 – 10.30 |
SESSION 3
- Martin Scherzinger (New York University): Authors or Commons? Neither, but Both!
- Peter Webb (Cambridge)
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| 10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.30 |
CONCURRENT PANELS 3
a. Creativity in focus
- Mark Summers (Sheffield University): Human-machine creative collaboration and copyright: improvising with interactive music systems
- Joe Bennett (Bath Spa University): Who writes the songs? Creative practice and intellectual property in popular music’s digital production chain
- Isabella van Elferen (Kingston University): Ludomusicology and The New Drastic
b. Mapping, mediating, and Touching
- Joe Cantrell (University of California, San Diego): Limited Edition: Valuing Artisanal Physicality in the Digital Age
- Paula Harper (Columbia University): Beyoncé’s Body: Hashing Out a Mediated Pop Live
- Ely Rosenblum (University of Cambridge): Sociality, Cybercartography and Electroacoustic Composition in Udo Noll’s Radio Aporee
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| 12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch |
| 13.30 – 15.00 |
SESSION 4
- Anahid Kassabian (University of Liverpool): ‘Where does it go?!? YouTube, Stupid Games, and Time’
- Monique Ingalls (University of Cambridge)
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| 15.00 – 15.30 |
Tea break |
| 15.30 – 16.15 |
SESSION 5
- Nicholas Cook (University of Cambridge) and Justin Gagen (Goldsmiths, University of London): Second Liveness
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