17/09/2025
CALL FOR PAPERS || GROOVE THE CITY – MOVE THE STREETS || VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Date: September 17-19, 2026
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 5, 2025
https://www.mdw.ac.at/ikm/events/groovethecity/
https://skuor.tuwien.ac.at/events/groovethecity/
The field of Urban Music Studies has emerged as a vibrant interdisciplinary arena, exploring the dynamic interplay between music and urban life. At its core, this field recognizes sound as both a reflection and a constitutive element of urban life, deeply embedded in the spatial, social, and cultural fabric of cities. Against this backdrop, we organise the third international conference of the Urban Music Studies Scholars’ Network Groove the City – Move the Streets, taking place from 17-19 September 2026 at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and at TU Wien – Technische Universität Wien, in combination with the 2024-2026 event series of the Thematic Group for Public Spaces and Urban Cultures of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP TG PSUC), focusing a critical engagement with the concept and materiality of “the street” as a multifaceted and symbolic terrain where social, cultural, and political processes unfold.
To this end, we invite scholars, practitioners, activists, and artists to contribute to the conference by investigating how sound interacts with, transforms, and reimagines the streets as spaces of movement, resistance, belonging, and creativity.
The deadline for the submission of the proposals is 5th October 2025.
Join us in exploring how grooves shape the city and how streets inspire movements!