Themes

The conference organizing committee welcomes abstracts pertaining to the following topics, taking into account the KISMIF Conference 2016 themes – underground music scenes, DIY cultures and their relationship with space:

The role/importance of space/ place/ territory in underground music scenes and DIY cultures
Music scenes, DIY, liminality and public spaces
Migrations, diasporas and identities: the role of music, DIY cultural practice and space through the world of individual and collective identities and differences
Gatekeeping mechanisms, reputation building and (de)territorialization of cultural and musical scenes
City and territory and contemporary countercultural resistance practices
City and aesthetics: musical and artistic styles and aesthetic tranformations
New artistic and musical productions and intermediation in the city and space
Territorial mechanisms of production, intermediation and musical consumption
Urban spaces and new dynamics of social inclusion through music and underground artistic practices and DIY
Developments in social theory around art worlds, musical fields, artistic fields, underground music scenes, DIY cultures
Memory, historicity, genealogy and diachrony of music scenes and art worlds from the post-war period to the present day
Subcultures, post-subcultures, tribes and neo-tribes: paradigms, tensions and reconceptualization
Heritage, retro-mania and DIY archives
Spaces, places and the festivalization of culture, music, underground and DIY practices
Theoretical and methodological challenges/dilemmas in music and DIY cultures research
Subcultures, tribes, neo-tribes and local, virtual and translocal underground scenes
Objects, simulacrum, simulations and music dematerialization and new directions of the (post) music industry
Contradictions and tensions between the underground and the mainstream
Urban micro-economies and DIY careers: alternative forms of musical, artistic and cultural entrepreneurship
(Re)sacralizations, deification, fans: new contours of relations with the arts, artists, stars and musicians
Pedagogies and interventions based on artistic and musical DIY
New social movements, music and other local, translocal and virtual artistic scenes