Session programme, updated on 9 Apr (PDF)

 

Wednesday, 22 April

12.00–13.00 Registration (Arken, Åbo Akademi)

13.00–15.00 Opening session

  • Opening words
  • National Master’s Thesis Award in Music Research
  • Panel discussion: ”Why Music Research Matters?” (Johannes Brusila, Lea Ryynänen-Karjalainen, Sini Mononen, Meri Kytö, Outi Valo, chair Riitta Monto)

15.00 Coffee break

15.30–17.30 Groups A

17.45–18.30 Welcome reception (Arken, Åbo Akademi)

 

Thursday, 23 April

9.00–10.15 Keynote I: Sanne Krogh Groth (Lunds universitet): Sonic argumentation: How sound matters, in analysis and on the island of Java (abstract below)

10.30–12.00 Groups B

12.00–13.00 Lunch (see, https://www.karkafeerna.fi/, https://www.unica.fi/)

13.00–15.00 Groups C

15.00 Coffee break

15.30–17.00 Annual meetings of The Finnish Musicological Society and The Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology

18.00–21.00 Dinner (Panimoravintola Koulu, Eerikinkatu 18)

 

Friday, 24 April

9.00–10.15 Keynote II: Sarah Hill (University of Oxford): The Sounds of Community: Welsh Pop in the Capital City (abstract below)

10.30–12.00 Groups D

12.00–13.00 Lunch (see above)

13.00–15.00 Groups E

15.00 Closing words and coffee, book launch: Sivuutetut soinnit –Näkökulmia musiikin historian tutkimukseen Suomessa (ed. Kilpiö, Kaarina & Rantanen, Saijaleena)

 

Keynote abstracts

Sanne Krogh Groth: Sonic argumentation: How sound matters, in analysis and on the island of Java

The presentation begins with the concept of sonic argumentation, a term developed within the context of the audio paper, an academic publication format that employs sound as a medium. Sonic argumentation invites scholars to use sound not only as end, but also as mean in the academic argumentation. This approach frames a series of examples drawn from aesthetic‑anthropological fieldwork among DIY musicians on the Indonesian island of Java. The talk is organized into four sections, each introduced by a sound or music clip recorded in the field, and each opening a multifaceted analysis of the aesthetics, communities, and ontologies that shape experimental music in Java.

 

Sarah Hill: The Sounds of Community: Welsh Pop in the Capital City

In 2017 the Welsh Government published Cymraeg 2050, its strategy to achieve a target of one million Welsh speakers by the year 2050. The timing was not coincidental: it marked fifty years since the first Welsh Language Act of 1967, itself a response to fifty years of civil disobedience and activism enacted to ensure the survival of the Welsh language. The period between 1967 and 2017 also marked the emergence of Welsh popular music, its development, and its professionalisation. In this paper I will consider the legacy of the early years of Welsh pop in today’s political climate, and highlight the ways in which the radical politics of the 1960s have become inscribed visually and sonically in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales.