Posted: February 23rd, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Watching Jazz: Analysing Jazz Performance on Audiovisual Resources
Conference, 18/19 February 2011, University of Glasgow
Keynote address: John Altman
Jazz historiography has traditionally revolved around sound recordings, with still images, written documents and oral histories employed as complementary sources.
Although this approach has generally been regarded as successful, there is growing awareness among scholars of the problematic nature of such heavy reliance on sound recordings. In particular, it has obscured aspects of the music and the cultural practices surrounding it that are not apparent from sound recordings, and has led to the marginalisation of musicians who did not produce their best work in the recording studio.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 15: Music
Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, the journal of ASLE-UK (the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment), explores interdisciplinary interfaces between humans and the natural and built environment. Submissions are invited for our summer 2011 edition which will focus on music.
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Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on IASPM 2011 17th Biennial International Conference
‘Situating Popular Musics’
Grahamstown South Africa, Monday 27 June until Friday 1 July, 2011
For its 17th biennial conference, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) invites papers which explore the many ways of situating popular music in the light of IASPM celebrating its 30th year. The opening plenary will be given by Philip Tagg, IASPM founder.
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Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Popular Music and Society
Special Issue on Popular Music and Marketing
Submissions are invited for a special issue of Popular Music and Society, which will focus on the theme of popular music and marketing. While the subject of popular music and marketing has been a regular focus of business, marketing, and advertising research, there have been relatively few critical and cultural studies in this area. This special issue aims to explore and critically interrogate the various intersections of popular music and marketing, and the role of commerce in popular music culture. All disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical perspectives are welcome; possible themes might include:
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Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Filed under: News | Comments Off on New IASPM UK & Ireland website
Welcome to the new IASPM UK & Ireland branch website. We’re now fully equipped with all the mod cons: we have a completely redesigned layout; simple clear navigation; categories and searchable archives. You should now find it much easier to locate the information you’ll need in order to submit for conferences and journals.
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Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Hip-Hop on the Ruhr: Identities, Economies, Politics
2-3 July 2010, Dortmund, Germany
For one whole year, the Ruhr Area will be European Capital of Culture. The extensive program in more than 50 cities will explore many different cultural phenomena. A key event located between scholarship and performance, the conference on “Hip-Hop on the Ruhr: Identities – Economies – Politics” will examine the cultural and economic significance of hip-hop in the Ruhr Area in an international context.
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Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Sound as Art: Sound in History. Sound as Culture: Sound in Theory
Conference on sound studies
University of Aarhus, Denmark
September 23–25, 2010
Today, sound studies provide an important framework for furthering cultural research related to a broad range of historical and contemporary issues. Also, sound studies contribute to the understanding of currents in social and global activity increasingly determined by auditory, sonic, and communicative materiality. At the same time, the exploration of auditivity and auditory cultures raises a series of significant aesthetic, medial, historical, cultural, and theoretical questions.
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Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Jazz Chameleon: The 9th Nordic Jazz Conference
The Finnish Jazz & Pop Archive
Helsinki, August 19–20, 2010
Since its arrival on the public scene in the early 20th century, jazz has been characterised by a remarkable ability to cross musical, social and cultural borderlines. In terms of musical style and character, jazz has often crossed genre categories and undergone through radical changes. In terms of geographical and cultural boundaries, one of the most notable developments in jazz has been the internationalisation of its sound. Furthermore, jazz has also been able to ‘travel in time’. The explicit sense of traditions characterises jazz history: jazz music speaks to the past and is informed by what has been before.
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Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Cultural legitimation: the valorization of popular culture
Edited by Hélène Laurin and Dominic Arsenault
Founded at the Université de Montréal, Kinephanos is a bilingual inter-university web-based journal. Focusing on questions involving cinema and popular media, Kinephanos encourages interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. The journal’s primary interests are movies and popular TV series, video games, emerging technologies and fan cultures. The preferred approaches include cinema studies, communication theories, religion sciences, philosophy, cultural studies and media studies.
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Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on Biennial conference of IASPM-UK/Ireland
Experience, Engagement, Meaning
School of Music, Cardiff University
2-4 September 2010.
There are limitless ways in which people relate to music and incorporate it into their lives. Music is used to structure routine practices such as homework, shopping and exercise, and to delineate special events such as weddings. Music has an uncanny knack of bringing together the individual and the collective, the general and the specific. The overall theme of this conference concerns the ways in which people engage with music and make music meaningful, focusing on three broad categories: musical experience, musical engagement and musical meaning. Proposals for 20 minute papers or 90 minute panel sessions are invited on these topics and any related issues of popular music debate. Proposals will be welcomed from any academic perspective and addressing any kind of music.
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