Posted: June 22nd, 2026 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Hip Hop Diaspora: Memory, Technology, and the Politics of Electric Infrastructure
Global Hip Hop Studies 8.1 — Spring 2027
A special issue of the journal Global Hip Hop Studies (Intellect Books, Bristol, UK)
About Global Hip Hop Studies
Global Hip Hop Studies (GHHS) is a peer-reviewed, rigorous, and community-responsive academic journal that serves as a hip hop cipher examining and expanding the ‘fifth element’—knowledge—and its intersections with all the culture’s material, embodied, and conceptual forms. GHHS privileges the insights of people of colour and supports marginalized, subordinated, and disenfranchised global citizens engaged in manifesting progressive political and social change. GHHS is Open Access through a Subscribe to Open model. No APCs or submission fees are charged. Authors retain copyright.
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Posted: June 2nd, 2026 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on STAVE/OFF: Non-traditional Modalities of Musical Training in Popular Musics
One-day symposium at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
15 July 2026
Laying the groundwork for an emerging regional network of scholars, this one-day symposium seeks to examine what musical ‘training’ means outside of the traditional binary of reading vs not reading music notation. With an emphasis on popular musics, we invite all kinds of music thinkers, makers, and facilitators to submit an abstract for a 15-minute talk, workshop, or demonstration. STAVE/OFF will be a jam-packed day of networking and brainstorming.
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Posted: June 1st, 2026 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on RETROFUTURISM 4
Online Symposium, 27 & 28 August 2026
Since 2022, we have held a series of online symposia addressing ‘retrofuturism’, a term we use to denote the ways in which internet aesthetics invoke visions of utopia and nostalgia. From vaporwave and hauntology to chiptune and frutiger aero, music, sound, and audiovisual media have been central to these present-day entanglements of past and future possibility. Our previous symposia have looked at microgenres, nostalgia, and anemoia. For our fourth symposium—held in association with the Nostagain Network—we turn to the issue of materiality.
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