[iberoamericanmusiclist] Call for Proposals - IAMSG Business Meeting, AMS Annual Conference Minneapolis 2025

[Javier Marín-López]

*Call for Proposals - IAMSG Business Meeting, AMS Annual Conference
- Minneapolis 2025*
Following the success of previous meetings, the Ibero-American Music Study
Group invites its members and any conference attendees to a new edition of
the IAMSG-AMS Lightning Lounge, to be held during our business meeting at
the annual AMS conference in Minneapolis. Like preceding versions, this
Lightning Lounge will feature a selection of short papers centered around a
broad and inclusive theme. This year, the central topic will be “Music,
Protest, and Systems of Representation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and
the Iberian Peninsula”.

Although protest music is often associated with recent histories, it has
been an integral part of the social fabric of the Ibero-American world
since the sixteenth century. Across different historical moments, music has
served as a tool for denunciation against oppression, resistance, and both
individual and collective expression. This theme invites us to explore how
music has shaped, and has been shaped by, various forms of social protest,
with particular attention to historically marginalized voices whose sonic
expressions have frequently remained at the margins of dominant narratives.
The complex and dynamic processes of repression and assimilation vary
according to historical and geographical contexts, producing diverse
responses while also creating spaces in which music is negotiated within
new structures and voices of dissent are amplified. Furthermore, we
encourage perspectives that examine the notation, recording, and archival
preservation of protest music as tools of power in shaping musical memory.
How have processes of notation, written documentation, sound recording, and
archival preservation influenced the remembrance or silencing of these
practices? This inquiry aligns with broader debates on orality, aurality,
and performance as alternative modes of agency, as well as recent
discussions on materiality and the negotiation of power between
individuals, objects, and sonic practices.

We invite abstract submissions for 10-minute presentations that explore the
intersections of music and protest across historical periods in the
geographical areas presented before. Suggested topics include, but are not
limited to:

* Sonic strategies of protest from the colonial period to the present
* Censorship, persecution, and the resilience of protest music
* Marginalized groups and sonic expressions of dissent
* Sounds, spaces, and the performances of protest
* Orality, notation, and the recording of dissenting sounds
* Materiality and the archival politics of sonic artifacts and media
* The institutionalization and commercialization of protest music
* Music, protest, and digital activism
* Any other topics related to the intersection of music and protest

Abstracts of up to 350 words should be sent to *iamsg.proposals at gmail.com
<iamsg.proposals at gmail.com> *by the *5th of April.*

Javier Marín-López, Chair IAMSG-AMS
Vera Wolkowicz, Outgoing Chair IAMSG-AMS
Jacqueline Avila, Incoming Chair IAMSG-AMS
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