The major international gathering of the CHIME project for 2017 will take place, in Siena, Italy, between the 25 and 28 May. The conference, titled Music, Festivals, Heritage, seeks to explore a number of key themes, questions or problems for the field, including:

• Established and innovative uses of heritage sites and public spaces
• Festival sites and cultural memory
• Transformations of place: music festivals as utopian sites
• Questions of music genre (e.g. jazz, opera, folk, rock, classical) and the construction of heritage at festival
• Festival as dull culture: repetition, predictability, boredom
• The tension between the conservation and the use of heritage sites
• Festivals and cultural tourism
• New models of engagement between festivals and cultural heritage
• Festivals as sites that explore the relationship between tangible, intangible and digital heritage
• Critical perspectives from festival programmers, producers, organisers
• The mediation and representation of (heritage and) festival
• Festival as exclusive community; festival as marginal space
• From carnivalesque to festivalisation: theoretical approaches and questions of festival
• The cultural politics of festival sites.

The location will be the Siena Jazz Archive, which holds the most important specialised collection in Italy; it includes more than 25,000 sound and video items, over 2,000 books, and thousands of magazine issues including the only complete collection of the Musica Jazz magazine. EJN is a partner of CHIME project.

For more information: http://chimeproject.eu/