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Sibe2025: Music and social conflict. Paradigms, approaches and challenges of contemporary ethnomusicology
6-9 Nov 2025 Barcelona (Spain)
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Call for participations
Music and Social Conflict: Paradigms, Approaches, and Challenges in Contemporany Ethnomusicology SIBE 2025 30th Anniversary of the First SIBE Congress
Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya Barcelona 6 - 9 November 2025
The 2025 SIBE Conference aims to promote critical reflection and the production of knowledge regarding the role of ethnomusicology in contexts of social conflict, even if other topics of interest to the discipline will also be considered. Understanding conflict as an articulation embodied in social life as a whole (Giner 1995), it is possible to recognise multiple scenarios where power and hegemony disputes occur. Music, as a highly symbolic element, participates in these conflict scenarios, sometimes becoming a powerful weapon at the service of dominant sectors, and other times serving as a resistance banner of alternative and dissident cultural forms. Conflict, in its most common and ritualised forms, also functions as a tool for the redefinition of social order, the demarcation of physical and symbolic territorialities, and the strengthening of community cohesion. At the same time, as a “social drama” in Turnerian terms (1988), conflict can act as a catalyst for change. The relationship between music and conflict has been previously studied from the methodological approach of applied ethnomusicology, in works such as those by Araújo (2006), O’Connell & Castelo-Branco (2010), Harrison, Mackinlay & Pettan (2010), Haskell, Pettan & Titon (2015), or Castro Roa (2018). These contributions invite reflection on the commitment that the academic discipline of ethnomusicology can acquire in conflict scenarios, whether armed and explicitly violent or more mundane, entailing constant negotiations among the various parties involved. They also lead us to consider whether it is possible to distance ourselves from the conflicts surrounding us today, which are deeply intertwined with political, economic, and ethnic spaces, impacting us as researchers of expressive phenomena at every step. Previous research demonstrates that ethnomusicology can offer strategic proposals derived from a critical analysis of the context, promoting conflict resolution by enhancing the use of tools and cultural codes recognised by the very actors involved. The 2025 SIBE Conference seeks to open spaces for these realities and case studies, inviting researchers to consolidate existing references and continue building new ones within the framework of contemporary ethnomusicology. A transdisciplinary perspective is also welcome, as it is customary in all SIBE meetings. Therefore, proposals approaching these cases from anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, folklore, aesthetics, popular and traditional music studies, musicology, history, sound studies, or pedagogy will be particularly encouraged, regardless of the musical genres, styles, and traditions studied. SIBE will maintain in this 2025 edition the SIBE Júnior proposal submission track, which was first introduced at the 2023 SIBE Conference (Granada) with a very positive response. In this way, those conducting research in master’s, undergraduate, or postgraduate programmes will have the opportunity to choose this submission modality to receive a more suitable evaluation in line with their training stage. Thus, SIBE intends to foster greater participation from early-career researchers who may see the conference as an ideal space to enrich their work and share their concerns in a plural environment. Although proposals addressing issues beyond the main theme of the conference are also welcome, submitted proposals may be included in one of these thematic threads:
*Deadline for submissions: 30th March 2025* |
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