Words, Music and Gender Conference
May 24-25, 2019
Faculty of Arts/Faculty of Education
University of Maribor
Koroška cesta 160
2000 Maribor
The Words, Music and Gender Conference will address the links between words, music and sex, and their placement in the historical and contemporary cultural context.
We invite authors to join this link in various fields, including musicology, anthropology, sociology, psychoanalytic theory, translation theory, Marxism and feminist theory, from critical angles such as literary and linguistic analysis, gender studies, ethno music, critical music and popular music studies, and from the perspective of various musical genres, including ethnic, Asian and African music, American and European jazz, and popular and classical music.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- gender analysis in various musical genres: rock and pop music, jazz, folk and classical music and opera;
- sexism in rock songs;
- the problems of the LGBTQ + community in music;
- “I Am Woman: Hear Me Roar”: feminist empowerment in contemporary music;
- “Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves”: the rise of girls music groups;
- music and identity;
- sexually-marked music;
- didactic dimensions of words, music and gender.
Submissions up to 250 words (including the title of the contribution) and contact information (name, institution, postal code and e-mail address, phone number) should be sent to the address below by 30 December 2018.
Contact: wordmusicgender@um.si