Posted: April 25th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on ‘Punk’: Impacting Culture? Influencing change?
The Fourth Punk Scholars Network Conference and Symposium
The University of Bolton School of the Arts and the Punk Scholars Network
12th and 13th of December 2017
Papers and presentations are invited for the fourth Punk Scholars Network conference and postgraduate symposium to be held at The University of Bolton School of the Arts.
According to some, Punk crashed into popular culture in the United Kingdom in year zero, 1976 and crashed out at Wonderland in San Francisco in January 1978. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 25th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe
Special issue of Studies in Eastern European Cinema guest-edited by Zsolt Győri
A special issue of SEEC calls for contributions (not exceeding 6000 words) on the uses of popular music in the moving image in Eastern Europe – including musicals, other types of fiction film, music videos, documentary and experimental films – from the postwar period to contemporary times. The focus includes but also reaches beyond poetic considerations of film music, and articles about the social, cultural, and production contexts of music in screen culture are especially welcome.
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Posted: April 25th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Inside, Outside, and in Between: Institutionalization in Music History
Fifth Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History
June 6–8, 2018, Music Centre Helsinki, Finland
Deadline for proposals: September 30, 2017
Conference website: https://sites.uniarts.fi/web/inst2018/home
The Fourth Symposium took cosmopolitanism as its theme in order to contribute to and clarify the cosmopolitan turn in the arts and humanities, to explore its meaning in terms of musical practice and theory, and develop new perspectives on music history. In the final plenary session, delegates debated a range of topics that might be given further consideration in the next symposium, speaking of pedagogy, cosmopolitanism as teaching tool, and destabilizing conservative frameworks in music history teaching. The discussion ranged widely over topics such as networks, connections, mobilities and immobilities, geographical transactions, border crossings, mythologies, utopias and heterotopias, tourism and travel, and humanism and post-humanism. The most productive discussion, however, was around institutionalization.
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Posted: April 8th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Techniques of Listening
A Conference Organized by the Music and Sound Studies Interdisciplinary Student Group
University of Minnesota
October 13–14, 2017 • Minneapolis, MN
Keynote Speakers: Charles Hirschkind (UC Berkeley) and Emily Dolan (Harvard)
As a way of knowing and interacting with the world, techniques of listening constitute a wide range of socially and historically circumscribed practices that shape our subjective positions and collective identities. Techniques of listening orient the ear and represent sound in distinct and often contradictory ways.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Symposium for Digital Musicology
1st September 2017
Senate House W1CE 7HU London UK
http://digitalmusicology.com
Symposium for Digital Musicology is a one day event that aims to bring together scholars from various musicological fields and computer scientists in order to generate a discussion about digital musicology – an interdisciplinary field in which new technologies are applied to musicological research. Digital techniques have been used more often within humanities in fields outside of musicology, for example in palaeography, history, art history, and many others. The field of digital musicology remains an active field with research done by computer scientists and programmers who have built a broad range of tools that could be used by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, but these tools do not usually meet their potential on this side of the research spectrum. These digital tools could both be timesaving and provide opportunities to new methodologies (e.g. big data, timbral analysis, automated transcription, etc.).
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Posted: April 3rd, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on ISSTA 2017 International Festival and Conference on Sound in the Arts, Science and Technology
Sept 7th-8th 2017
Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
Website: http://issta.ie/call-for-submission-2017/
Keynotes
Peter Kirn (Editor–in–Chief, CDM: Create Digital Music) http://cdm.link/
Dr Theresa Dillon (Artist–Researcher, Professor of City Futures at Watershed and University of the West of England, Bristol) http://www.polarproduce.org
Deadline for submissions
Submissions are due Monday 17th April. Notifications will be sent by Friday 9th June.
ISSTA 2017: Sound–Makers: technologies, practices and cultures
Creative audio and visual practices are increasingly moving from the digital sphere into the ‘real’ world––moving from bits to atoms (Ishii and Ullmer, 1997)––as physical computing technologies continue to become more widely affordable and accessible. Custom–made and repurposed controllers, gestural interfaces and intentionally hackable or reconfigurable instruments now support the creation and control of music and audio-visual media outside the mouse and keyboard paradigm and beyond normative models based on previously–established practices.
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Posted: March 31st, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Bob Marley Special Issue
Rock Music Studies
Special Issue: Bob Marley
Edited by Mike Alleyne
Submissions are invited for a special edition of Rock Music Studies that examines the art and legacies of reggae’s best known figure in the particular context of the 40th anniversaries of his Rastaman Vibration and Exodus albums. The latter was cited by Time magazine in 1999 as the Album of the Century.
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Posted: March 30th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Mediterranean Journal of Communication: Special issue on Music, Advertising and Transmedia Storytelling
Editors: Eduardo Viñuela and Cande Sánchez-Olmos
Music is important for brands because it creates value and engagement, and turns consumers into fans. Music and advertising have always reproduced their relationship in different media (press, radio, Tv, internet), and their adaptation to the codes and dynamics of each medium is a challenge for the implement of innovative narratives. Nowadays, media convergence has opened new ways of transmediality that multiply the possibilities of interaction among music and advertising. Thus, brands have begun to produce music as a strategy to improve their status and to profit from the values of music. In this context of media convergence and participative culture, it is necessary to approach the new procedures, codes and transmedia storytelling that brands are developing to engage with a demanding, disperse and disloyal target.
In this special issue we aim to analyze the relationship of music and advertising in the contemporary context, approaching the relevance of transmedia storytelling, branded content and new forms of audiovisual advertising. But we are also interested in case studies that run across different periods and in the strategies of revival and nostalgia that are commonly used in advertising.
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Posted: March 29th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Innovation In Music Conference 2017
06 – 08 September 2017
University of Westminster, Regent St, London, UK
News:
* Talvin Singh OBE will give a special keynote talk and performance at InMusic 17
* Ken Scott confirmed as a participant on an esteemed Production Panel at InMusic 17
* Registration portal for InMusic 17 is now open * Call for 300-500 word abstracts deadline: 31 March 2017.
Other confirmed keynote speakers and panel members include:
* Imogen Heap – Grammy Award winning music artist, producer, engineer and innovator
* Peter Oxendale – Forensic musicologist and expert witness in copyright law
* Mandy Parnell – Grammy Award winning mastering engineer
* Jonathan Bailey – Chief Technical Officer of iZotope
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Posted: March 27th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Riffs: Experimental Research on Popular Music
The editorial team of Riffs: Experimental research on Popular Music invite 300 word proposals for the next 2017 volume from PhD, MA and outstanding BA students.
A song can be about anything
About peace or war, or the sins of industry
Or the discontents of fame, or of obscurity
Or how we first met, on the warmest day
And how I hadn’t planned to love someone until you came
Or how we survived on happiness and sleeping on the floor
Or how you used to love me but you don’t even know me anymore
– Dan Wilson, ‘A Song Can Be About Anything’ from Love Without Fear
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