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[Rogerio Budasz]

On behalf of Juan Fernando Velasquez
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*Call for Papers*

*Resounding Spaces: Global Approaches to Music and Sound in Urban Contexts*

*A Cross-Disciplinary Conference*

University of Houston

Moores School of Music, Dudley Recital Hall

Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts

March 27-28, 2026

Email: resoundingspaces at uofh.uh.edu



KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Alejandro Madrid, Harvard University

VISITING ARTIST

Maria Chávez



Hosted by the University of Houston, Moores School of Music

Supported by a Mitchell Center Innovation Grant



*Resounding Spaces* invites interdisciplinary engagement with musical and
sonic practices that shape, and are shaped by, the material, political, and
affective textures of global urban contexts. We are seeking probing
reflections on the ways in which music and sound participate in producing,
contesting, and reimagining urban life around the world; as well as
explorations of sonic and musical practices that reveal, disrupt, or
reconfigure urban dynamics. We encourage diverse methodological approaches,
including critical theory, ethnography, archival work, community-engaged
research, and creative or practice-based inquiry. *Resounding Spaces* aims
to foster interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialogue, emphasizing the
generative potential of music and sound in understanding and reshaping
urban society.

Basic questions the conference aims to address include: How does music,
sound, and noise shape our global urban experience? How does what we
*hear* work
to shape us into who we *are* individually, locally, and as a global community?
How does sound work for us, or against us? These questions are becoming
increasingly important for understanding our sociopolitical experience. As
of 2024, 58% of the world’s population – some 4.4 billion people – live in
urban areas, a figure projected by the United Nations to reach 68% by
mid-century. This dramatic global shift signals a future increasingly
shaped by urban life: dynamic, coeval, and intricately interconnected. Amid
this transformation, urban areas have become central to conversations about
the Anthropocene, postmodernity, and socio-environmental crises, manifested
through gentrification, migration, economic disparity, inequality, public
safety, and climate vulnerability.

Ideas surrounding the interconnectedness of urban experience with music,
sound, and noise follow Henri Lefebvre’s notion of space as a product and
producer of social relations and power structures and draw on Yi-Fu
Tuan’s concepts
of “affective memory” and *topophilia* in place-making. Scholars such as
Natalia Bieletto and Leonardo Cardoso have emphasized the role of sound in
mediating institutional logics, enabling resistance, and opening avenues
for civic expression. Yet despite these critical interventions, music and
sound remain underexamined aspects of research about urban topics.

We welcome proposals for 20-minute individual papers and for organized
panels (3–4 papers) from music studies and across the wider arts,
humanities, and social sciences, including (but not limited to):
musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, sound studies, urban studies,
anthropology, cultural geography, history, performance studies, dance,
film/tv/media studies, linguistics, theater, sociology, architecture,
visual arts, and climate studies. Selected proceedings from the conference
may appear in an edited volume.



*Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to*:

   - Global approaches to urban music and[/or] sound
   - Urban soundscapes and everyday listening
   - Noise, regulation, and sonic governance
   - Music, gentrification, and spatial justice
   - Global musicology and urban contexts
   - Sonic representations of difference and privilege
   - Musicking and public space
   - Listening as method in urban research
   - Global adaptations of and responses to urban music genres
   - Art and performance engaging urban sound
   - Sound, infrastructure, and urban planning
   - Sonic ecologies and environmental crises
   - Music or sound art that (re)imagine urban spaces
   - Urban memory and sonic affect
   - Acoustic territoriality and sound-based conflict
   - Reimagining urban futures through sound
   - Social media, streaming platforms, and the global circulation of music
   and sound

Please submit your abstract or panel proposal of 250-300 words to the
Resounding
Spaces Conference Submission Form
<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=vboLF_CikEytSw6PDwxCWQ1AGP9qSUtDsRiL7aGuTeRUMDQ5QVA3SUpIT0w0NjhZT0pERlJQNkhHSS4u&route=shorturl>.
You will also be asked to provide your name, any audio/visual requirements,
and your contact information.

See the Resounding Spaces Conference website for more information:
https://www.resoundingspacesuh.wordpress.com



CONFERENCE CO-ORGANIZERS

Damjan Rakonjac (Assistant Professor of Musicology)

Ji Yeon Lee (Associate Professor of Music Theory)

Juan Fernando Velasquez (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology)

Kathryn Caton (Lecturer of Musicology)


In advance, thank you for your time.


Best regards,

Juan
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