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<p><strong>CFP:</strong><strong> The 4<sup>th</sup></strong><strong></strong><strong> Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference</strong><strong> </strong><strong>2014 in </strong><strong>Chiang Mai (</strong><strong>Thailand</strong><strong>)</strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Date: </strong> 8-9 August 2014, (Friday-Saturday)<strong> </strong></p>
<p><b>Venue:</b> College of Arts, Media and Technology, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand</p>
<p>Campus Map: <a href="http://www.camt.cmu.ac.th/en/contact.php" target="_blank">http://www.camt.cmu.ac.th/en/contact.php</a></p>
<p><strong>Organized by: </strong></p>
<p>Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Group (IAPMS group),</p>
<p>College of Arts, Media and Technology, Chiang Mai, Thailand<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Statement </strong></p>
<p>We are pleased to announce the 4<sup>th</sup> Inter-Asia Popular
Music Studies Conference, which will take place on August 8-9, 2014 in
Chiang Mai, in collaboration with College of Arts, Media and Technology,
Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Following the first conference in
Osaka in 2008, the second conference in Hong Kong in 2010, and the third
conference in Taipei in 2012, we move our next meeting to Thailand—hub
of vibrant Southeast Asian popular music and music industry.</p>
<p>Founded in 2008, Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Group (IAPMS group)
is a research network that at the moment includes 120 scholars not only
in Asia but also in Europe, America and Oceania. Through its biennial
conferences and related activities, the group provides a platform to
foster scholarly conversations and collaborations arising from the
growing academic interest in Asian popular music both inside and outside
Asia.</p>
<p><strong>CONFERENCE THEME (IAPMS∙2014∙Chiang Mai):</strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>How to </strong><strong>Perform</strong><strong> </strong><strong>‘</strong><strong>Inter-Asia</strong><strong>’</strong><strong> </strong><strong>P</strong><strong>op</strong><strong>ular Music</strong><strong> </strong><strong>Studies </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>Nowadays, Asian popular music is strong and
serious investigation on it is growing, in the academy and elsewhere.
More importantly, the cultural economy of popular music in Asia has
become transnational or border-crossing in a literal sense. There are
quite a few case studies that show that the consumption and mediation
as well as the production and distribution easily cross national
borders.</p>
<p>However, most of ‘inter-Asia’ popular music studies restrict
themselves to a ‘national’ base. Most researchers are specialized in
the popular music of one nation or language group and it has proven to
be quite a challenge to adopt a truly ‘inter-Asia’ perspective. This
perspective of comparative or cross-cultural research is unfortunately
still a somewhat distant ideal, with only a handful successful texts
that light the way. Given this situation, is it enough for each
researcher to write about his/her ‘own’ music and leave the comparison
to the readers of a ‘special issue’ or ‘edited volume’ that covers
different ‘cases’? Or should we rather find out a‘collective’ or
‘collaborative’ approach to doing research and writing papers? How can
it be done, when you do not have sufficient international connections,
when there is no agreed upon vocabulary and periodization, when your
time schedule or life cycle does not match? Finally, is collective or
collaborative writing really necessary?</p>
<p>The 4<sup>th</sup> Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies conference will
address the possibilities and difficulties of adopting an ‘inter-Asia’
perspective. We especially welcome papers that consider comparative
and/or collaborative research, in the future as well as in the present.
The conference engages with all the scholarly debates of the emerging
fields of Inter-Asia popular music studies, in the following categories
or streams:</p>
<p>Stream 1: Theory and Methodology<br>
Stream 2: Production, Circulation and Consumption<br>
Stream 3: History,Geography, Politics<br>
<span style="font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif">Stream 4: Genre, Identity, Ideology</span></p>
<p>The organizer of Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference 2014 in
Chiang Mai would like to invite paper presenters to send their abstract
(not more than 250 words) to <a href="mailto:iapms2014salaya@gmail.com">iapms2014chiangmai@gmail.com</a> <strong>before 25 January 2014</strong>. Please don’t forget to write down the ‘stream’ in which you think your paper fits.</p>
<p>Please use the attached <a href="http://interasiapop.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Proposal-Form-2014.doc"><span style="text-decoration:underline">Proposal Form</span></a>
(right click to download) when submitting your proposal. Please use
your surname as file name (ex. Chua.doc, Douglas.doc). If you plan to
organize a panel with more than two people, please coordinate with the
panelists to put all the necessary information on one form (e.g., panel
title, paper titles, individual abstracts, panelists information). A
panel description is not necessary.</p>
<p>Please email all inquiries to: <a href="mailto:iapms2014salaya@gmail.com">iapms2014chiangmai@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>2014.1.25 Deadline for abstract submission</p>
<p>2014.02.25 Acceptance of papers</p>
<p>2014.04.25 Registration</p>
<p>2014.07.25 Submission of full paper</p>
<p>2014.08.08-09 Conference Days<strong> </strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Organizing Committees </strong></p>
<p>Viriya Sawangchot (API Fellow & Mahidol University, Thailand)</p>
<p>Siriporn Somboonbooran (Walailak University, Thailand)</p>
<p>Atchareeya Saisin (Chiang Mai University, Thailand)</p>
<p>Tunghung HO (Fu-jen Catholic University, Taiwan)</p>
<p>Eva TSAI (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)</p>
<p>Anthony FUNG (Chinese University, Hong Kong/China)</p>
<p>Yoshitaka MORI (Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan)</p>
<p>Jeroen Groenwegen-Lau (Independent scholar, Netherlands-China)</p>
<p>Yukie HIRATA (Dokkyo University, Japan)</p>
<p>Sun JUNG (National University of Singapore, Singapore)</p>
<p>Kai Khiun LIEW (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)</p>
<p>Aekyung PARK (Yonsei University, Korea)</p>
<p>Hyunjoon SHIN (Sungkonghoe University, Korea)</p>
<p>Jung-yup LEE (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA/Korea)<strong> </strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Notes</strong></p>
<p>English is the only language in the conference as there is no common
language among Asia language. Translation service can be provided only
during Q&A, in case the presenters need it.</p>
<p>For the updated information about submission, registration, accommodation, transportation <em>etc</em>, please keep visiting our website: <a href="http://www.interasiapop.org/">http:www.interasiapop.org</a>.</p>
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