The Music and Sound Studies Network of the German Studies Association (GSA) invites proposals from scholars for the 43nd Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon in October 3-6, 2019. We welcome proposals that consider the many different histories, politics, and experiences of listening in German-speaking communities Germany and Austria from a number of interdisciplinary approaches. We especially welcome projects that focus on noise and sound as much as on music. We invite papers on a wide range of topics, including:
Technologies of Listening: how have technologies changed listening practices in the German-speaking world.
Listening to Popular Culture: how have pop music, techno, television shows, podcasts, radio-plays, and other sound-based media generated new audiences and experiences?
Historiographies of Listening: how do we discuss how we listen? How are listening narratives developed, preserved, and challenged over time?
Listening while Placebound: what are the differences between site-specific sound versus transient sound?
Hearing Icons: what makes something or someone sound iconic? How have iconic sounds or figures been generated and listened to?
Who Cares If You Listen: how does audience reception affect listening practices?
Listening to the Past: What does sound uniquely reveal about the past?
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