An event organised by the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies, Fondazione Giorgio Cini and supported by\u00a0Griffith University, Brisbane, the University of Exeter, UK and the University of Colorado Boulder.<\/p>\n
The conference will bring together scholars from interdisciplinary perspectives: musicologists, ethnomusicologists, popular music scholars, sociologists, experts in music and well-being, specialists in neuroscience applied to music, anthropologists, musicians, and cultural activists. Extensive research in music psychology, historiography, and aesthetics demonstrates how musicians and music-makers can experience a more active later life, enhanced psychophysical well-being, and greater creative freedom and innovation. This meeting aims to investigate how demographic change shapes musical production from concerts to media, how demographic change from \u201cnostalgia\u201d effects to the persistence of musical practices over time, how it leads to the development of new sound production, communication technologies and creates new professions. Understanding different adaptation strategies and cultural policies through intercultural comparisons \u2013 for example, in China, Japan, the Amazon rainforest, sub-Saharan Africa, and not only in the Western world \u2013 can help us understand how societies engage with global population aging and what role sound and music play (and can play) in these processes.<\/p>\n