<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Deadline extension 29th February - Call for Proposals - IAMSG Business Meeting, AMS annual conference Chicago 2024</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><div><font size="2" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#0e101a">Following the success of previous meetings, the Ibero-American Music Study Group invites its members and any conference attendees to a new version of the IAMSG-AMS Lightning Lounge to be held during our business meeting at the annual AMS conference in Chicago. Like preceding versions, this Lightning Lounge presents a selection of short papers exemplifying recent trends and topics. This time, the theme of our Lightning Lounge is called “Political uses of music in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula". Throuhghout history, </font><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);">diverse social groups, institutions, and actors within the political spectrum have used music as a campaigning tool for promoting their ideas, encouraging political action, and opposing ideological adversaries and institutional regimes. </span></font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font size="2">We invite abstract submissions for 10-minute presentations that discuss the political uses of music in different historical contexts in the geographical areas presented before. Suggested themes may include, but are not restricted to:</font></span></div><div><font size="2" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);">- Music and political campaigns</span><br style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);"><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);">- Politicians’ discourses on music and cultural policies</span><br style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);"><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);">- Musicians’ discourses on politics</span><br style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);"><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);">- The creation of music for political purposes</span><br style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);"><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);">- Concerts during political manifestations or political manifestations during concerts</span></font></div><div><font size="2" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">- Political constructions of gender and race through music</font></div><div><font size="2" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">- Politics of colonialism in music<br><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);">- Any topic connecting music and political ideologies</span></font></div><div><font size="2" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);">Abstracts of up to 200 words should be sent to </span> <a href="mailto:iamsg.proposals@gmail.com" target="_blank">iamsg.proposals@gmail.com</a><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);"> by the 29th of February.</span></font></div></div></body></html>