Scholars are invited to submit proposals for the ninth North American Conference on Video Game Music. The conference organizing and program committee is composed of Michael Austin & Jesse Kinne (organizers),Karen M. Cook (program committee chair), Jim Buhler, Dana Plank, Neil Lerner, Elizabeth Medina-Gray, Pete Smucker, Ryan Thompson, and Matthew Thompson.

The keynote speaker for this year?s conference will be artist-educator Mega Ran, who will also be performing in concert.

We are soliciting proposals for presentations on any aspect of music in games,including, but not limited to: A) The history of music in video games; B) Approaches to analyzing game music; C) Intersections of game music and other media; D) Critical and/or hermeneutic approaches to game music; E) Case studies of specific games; F) Game music and pedagogy; G) Ethnographic approaches to game music; H) Performance of game music inside and outside of games; I) The intersections of game music and race/ethnicity, socialjustice, and/or hip hop.

Website: https://vgmconference.weebly.com

Submissions Due: Dec15, 2021″