[KS] CFP, Conference “Transpacific East Asia: Transformations and Trajectories in Music and Sound”

[Hannah HK Chang]

Call for Papers

*Transpacific East Asia: Transformations and Trajectories in Music and
Sound*

Virtual & in-person conference  - Sheffield, United Kingdom

June 1-2, 2023

Abstract deadline: January 15, 2023

Convenor: Hannah Hyun Kyong Chang



Music studies has seen the emergence of oceanic approaches that de-center
nationalist frameworks in music historiography. In recent decades, for
example, Atlantic and Indian oceanic historiographies have re-shaped our
understandings and conceptualizations of music and sonic formations by
paying more attention to colonial encounters and contacts, as well as
emancipatory and everyday practices resulting from these relations.
Research on Pacific or transpacific trajectories in music have also been
gaining traction in recent years (see, for example, Irving 2010, Solis
2015, Rao 2017). This conference aims to amplify and widen conversations on
transpacific formations in music across genres and, more broadly, sound, by
inviting papers that explore music and sound that circulated across or
around the Pacific Ocean. While the Pacific Ocean’s myriad intersections
with disparate world areas is acknowledged – the Pacific Ocean is the
world’s largest ocean – this conference focuses on East Asia. Papers that
illuminate on or reconceive inter-Asian, East Asian diasporic, Asian
American, or East Asian-Latin American trajectories are welcome.
Ultimately, this exploratory conference as a whole seeks to ask: how does
moving from a landed perspective to an oceanic one help us reconceptualize
scale, identity, agency, methodology, and interdisciplinarity within
research on music and sound?



Papers may explore the intersection of music / sound in transpacific
contexts with any of the following:

§ Translation, language & music

§ Technology, economy

§ Vocalization, aurality, and/or inscriptional practice

§ Historical or contemporary Pacific empires

§ Christian missionization; militarization across the Pacific

§ Movement, marginality, insubordination

§ Cosmopolitanism, hybridity, pleasure

§ Ethics of encounter, decoloniality, indigeneity

§ Maritime histories



We also welcome:

§ Presentations on underexamined historical archives or sources

§ Experimental pieces; disciplinary critiques

§ Theoretical papers; papers on new methods



Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Nancy Yunhwa Rao (Professor of Music, Rutgers
University), Nicholas Harkness (Professor of Anthropology, Harvard
University)



Conference Website: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/transpacific



Deadline for abstract: January 15, 2023. Please email a 300-word abstract
to *hyun.chang at sheffield.ac.uk <hyun.chang at sheffield.ac.uk>* with subject
heading “Transpacific conference abstract”



Date of notification of acceptance: January 30, 2023



This two-day *hybrid* conference, held on June 1-2 2023, is funded by the
Arts Humanities Research Council (UK). *There will be funding for
conference travel and lodging for participants based in the UK, and an
online component will be used for participants based elsewhere.*



All abstracts will be anonymized and peer-reviewed by a program committee.

Papers will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q & A.
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