Extended Call for Papers for the Soundtracks: Music, Tourism and Travel conference
Additional abstracts that address the following themes are welcomed:
· Musical memory – the role of music in narratives of touristic experience
· Fans, pilgrimage and performances – motivations, behaviours and meanings
· The tourist’s involvement in preserving and creating musical traditions
· Managing tourists at musical sites
· Musical imaginaries – representing places, peoples and pasts in music
· Dance tourism and embodied practices
· Designing ambience – mobilising music in touristic spaces
· Music festivals as opportunities for tourist encounters
· Inspirations – travelling musicians
· Music as intangible heritage – touring through traditions
· Challenging musical traditions – tourist ‘noise’
Please submit a 300 word abstract including title and full contact details as an electronic file to d.carl@leedsmet.ac.uk. You may submit your abstract as soon as possible but no later than 6th February 2012.
For more details on this conference including a list of accepted abstracts, keynotes, registration etc, please visit the conference’s blog: http://soundtracksconference.wordpress.com/