Music and Imagery from the North
Climate change is increasingly focussing the world’s attention on the Arctic. Everything from geopolitical issues to economic and resource development in North regularily makes the headlines.
But the increased attention on the North is also influencing Arctic culture. The way the North is potrayed in art and music produced in the South is evolving.
This week, a university conference is underway in Montreal to look at some of these themes as they pertain to music.
Musiques et Imaginaire du Nord et du Froid (“Music and the Imaginary of the North and the Cold”) is a three-day conference at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) that kicked off this Wednesday.
Professors, academics and musicians have gathered from all over the North America to talk about music made in and about the North.
The agenda covers everything from Inuit throat singing to Norwegian Black Metal.
To check out the entire program, click here. Talks are in French and in English.
The conference was organized by UQAM’s International Laboratory for the Comparative Multidisciplinary Study of Representations of the North with le Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises (CRILCQ).
