The Conference Organizing Committee hereby announces its “Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (KISMIF) Underground music scenes and DIY cultures” Conference which will take place in Porto from 9 July to 11 July 2014. The organisation of the KISMIF Conference will be undertaken by the Research Project Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (PTDC/CS-SOC/118830/2010). The Call for Papers of this conference is open for presentations to all core areas of sociology and social sciences. The Conference Organizing Committee invite experienced and young scholars from various disciplines to participate in the conference. Underground music scenes have long been associated with strong DIY (do-it-yourself) cultural practices. Therefore, in a sociological reflection, though open to all other social sciences, we intend to discuss the importance of the musical and artistic underground practices in the contemporary society for its volatility but also undeniable importance in the urban youth cultures. The urban music cultures concerning the underground are still regarded as illegitimate objects of analysis in the more vast contemporary social theory framework. Yet they play a central role in the functioning of the musical (post)industry and in the emerging digital media landscape. It is also our intention to clarify and highlight musical scenes that pierce contemporary cities and give them rhythm, but also specific forms of identity and cultural and artistic heritage. This three-day conference, explores the contemporary landscape of urban underground music scenes and DIY cultures in a global context.

Themes

— Social theory developments and complexities in music, arts, youth and urban cultures.

— historicity, genealogy and diachrony of musical scenes.

— Meanings, identities, urban cultures and youth cultures.

— Aging and gender in the musical underground scenes.

— Urban spaces, musical scenes and new social movements.

— Musical scenes and social networks.

— Heritage, memories and artifacts.

— DIY Careers: social and professional pathways.

— Style, aesthetics and corporality.

— Markets, borders, memorabilia and retromania.

— Artistic creation and underground musical scenes.

— New social inclusion dynamics through music and underground practices.

— Social and cognitive effects of music and underground scenes: aesthetic experience, ethics, coding

and decoding.

— Music and arts for social transformation, arts in communities and arts as part of urban culture.

The Conference Organizing Committee would like the participants to know that

the selected papers from the conference will be published in an edited collection by an international publisher.

Deadlines submissions: 15th January