Musica Mercata: Finance, Commodity and the Music Industry from Antiquity to the Present
7th Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History
The 7th Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History provides the opportunity for music-history scholars all over the world to interrogate issues around finance, commodity and the music industry in the history of music from antiquity to the present and in all parts of the globe.
The financial condition of music has been recognised for as long as there have been studies of patronage in the music of the early-modern period or for as long as ‘opera’ has been regarded as both ‘an art and a business’. And while the domains of music publishing and the press have long been regarded as financially contingent, the 7th Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History seeks to expand these concerns to include all types of agency related to music, commodity and finance across the globe, and all types of exchange: monetary, in-kind and reciprocal gifting.
The following (non-exhaustive) list opens up some questions that the symposium looks to explore:
- Cultural history of music and economy
- Musical celebrity
- Patronage and music
- Promotion and self-promotion of musicians
- Music publishing, engraving and other forms of dissemination
- Music institutions and their financial underpinnings
- Economic impact on the aesthetics of music
- Music as commodity
- Media and music
- Connections of the music market to other economic networks
- Musical societies
- Music collecting
- The trade in music autographs and related material
- The concept of the music industry
Keynote speakers
- Gundula Kreuzer (Yale University, US): Industries of Opera: Scenes from the Nineteenth Century to Today
Call for proposals
Proposals are invited for
- Papers (20 minutes duration followed by 10 minutes discussion)
- Complete sessions and panels (two, three or four 20-minute papers, each with 10 minutes discussion)
- Panels with a freer structure (position-papers, lightning papers, responses, etc.)
Proposal length
- individual presentation proposals: max 300 words
- panel session proposals: max 350 words + each panelist’s proposal 200 words
The language of the conference is English.
The deadline for submissions is Saturday 30 September 2023 (23:59 Finnish time UTC+3). Notices of acceptance will be sent by Tuesday 31 October 2023.
While it is intended that the conference will be an in-person event, the organisers will be also pleased to consider hybrid or online submissions.
Registration
The registration is open from 2 April until 26 May 2024 (Europe – Helsinki UTC +03:00).
Register to Musica Mercata Symposium by paying the Registration Fee + banking costs. The fee must be paid at the same time as you complete your registration, it cannot be paid later.
If you have a panel presentation, each member of your group is requested to register and pay separately. A separate link to the registration form will be sent to each group member.
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Registration Fee Categories:
Early Bird rates 2 – 30 April 2024
Registration fee Wed-Fri (including coffees and dinner) 150 €
Registration fee Wed-Fri (including coffees) 80 €
Registration for the one symposium day (including coffee and dinner) 100 €
Registration for the one symposium day (including coffee) 40 €
Late Bird rates 1 – 26 May 2024
Registration fee Wed-Fri (including coffees and dinner) 170 €
Registration fee Wed-Fri (including coffees) 100 €
Registration for the one symposium day (including coffee and dinner) 100 €
Registration for the one symposium day (including coffee) 40 €
Student rates
Registration fee Wed-Fri (including coffees and dinner) 70 €
Registration fee Wed-Fri (including coffees) 30 €
Online rate
Online registration fee (including participation only to the hybrid sessions) 20 €
University of the Arst Helsinki staff rates
Registration fee Wed-Fri (including coffees and dinner) 100 €
Registration fee Wed-Fri (including coffees) 50 €
There are no free fees for Uniarts Helsinki staff or students. If your study program or Uniarts Helsinki pays your registration fee, please add the unit or project number for your payment in the registration form. The registration fees of Uniarts Helsinki’s members (presenters, staff and students) will be invoiced internally by the university’s Financial Services. Notice: It is not possible to make a registration payment with an Uniarts Helsinki credit card.
The conference fees include participation in all sessions: keynotes and all presentations and other program.
We accept the following forms of payment
- Finnish banks (verkkopankki) with 4 € banking costs
- Visa or Mastercard with 5 € banking costs
Please, notice, that when registering, the registration page remains active for 60 minutes. After registration, you will receive a confirmation e-mail and also the receipt of the payment. You can update your information until the end of the registration time. Please, save your documents.
The organizing committee
- Anne Kauppala (committee chair) / Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki
- Mark Everist / University of Southampton, GB
- Ingeborg Zechner / University of Graz, AT
- Markus Mantere / Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki
- Saijaleena Rantanen / Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki
- Kaarina Kilpiö / Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki
- Marianne Mieskolainen (symposium secretary) / Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki
- Johanna Rauhaniemi (symposium coordinator) / Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki
Organisers: University of the Arts Helsinki History Forum and Sibelius Academy
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Practical Information for Musica Mercata 2024 participants
Musica Mercata 2024 symposium will take place in the facilities of Uniarts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy`s Töölö campus (Helsinki Music Centre). Here you will find information about us and our venues as well as how to move around in Helsinki and where to visit.
Contact for inquiries
musicamercata2024@uniarts.fi (no proposal submissions)
