Posted: October 2nd, 2013 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Urban Soundscapes and Critical Citizenship
27th & 28th March, 2014, Limerick, Ireland
In this interdisciplinary conference, we explore the intersection of soundscapes and acoustic ecology studies (Murray Schafer 1977; Truax 1978) with urban, applied ethnomusicology’s focus on human subjects (Hemetek and Reyes 2007; Jurková 2012) and with sociological understandings of the cultural restructuring of urban space (Fainstein and Campbell, 2011; LeGates 2011; Bridge and Watson 2010), through an evocation of ‘critical citizenship’ (Nell et al, 2012).
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Posted: September 29th, 2013 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Atlantic Sounds: Ships and Sailortowns
International Conference, Friday 14 – Saturday 15 March 2014
Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, UK
http://www.open.ac.uk/atlanticsounds
The Atlantic Sounds network aims for a better understanding of music in Atlantic World encounters. It represents a largely unexplored interdisciplinary area, situated around ethnomusicology, popular musicology, maritime history and urban history. This major international conference is the final event of the AHRC-funded phase of the network and builds on three specialised colloquia in 2013. We welcome submissions from speakers who participated in previous events.
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Posted: September 17th, 2013 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on IASPM UK and Ireland Biennial Conference: Worlds of Popular Music
University College, Cork, 11-14 September 2014
Keynote Speaker: Professor David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds)
Keynote title: ‘Music and the Affective Turn’
Popular music creates worlds around its listeners, temporary, often intimate, and feelingful environments within which the act of listening occurs. It meanwhile plays significant roles in the global flows of capitalism, politics, tourism and migration, and inflects the virtual spaces opened up online by digital technology. New research work, of all approaches, is welcome; those proposing papers should make clear how their presentation will shed new light on the relationships that emerge between types or instances of popular music and their most salient surrounding contexts, for instance, along the lines of one of the following questions:
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Posted: September 12th, 2013 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on International Festival for Artistic Innovation
Leeds College of Music is pleased to present the launch of the International Festival for Artistic Innovation (IFAI) that will take place on 10-14 March 2014. IFAI will act as an umbrella to embrace a diverse range of music making and practice-led research. Established annual events, the International Festival for Innovations in Music Production & Composition (iFIMPaC) and the Leeds International Jazz Education Conference (LIJEC), will form part of the Festival along with developments dedicated to contemporary classical and popular musics.
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Posted: September 7th, 2013 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Creativity, Circulation and Copyright: Sonic and Visual Media in the Digital Age
28-29 March 2014
Over the past two decades, digital technologies have fundamentally altered the ways that musical and audiovisual media are created, circulated and received. As musical and audiovisual content has been made available in multiple formats through a variety of media platforms, there has been a multifaceted convergence of visual and sonic media, of production and consumption, and of corporate and grassroots artistic endeavours. Creators, promoters and audiences have responded in a variety of ways to the new challenges and opportunities. And, at the same times as media industries’ adaptive strategies are shifting users’ expectations and experience of audio-visual content, participatory use is constantly stretching and testing the legal frameworks of copyright law.
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Posted: September 3rd, 2013 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on 2014 IASPM-US Annual Conference: ‘Music Flows’
Music flows. Evocative metaphorically while directing our attention to the global circulation of songs, the theme for the 2014 IASPM-US Annual Conference takes its inspiration from the UNC campus-wide Water initiative.
Water in its many forms is a ubiquitous subject of pop songs. Whether as metaphor or literal reference, water imagery as a theme in popular music has been used to celebrate identity, express emotions, address environmental issues, convey pleasure, pay homage to spiritual beings, and shape communities of resistance. Here we take up notions of fluidity and flow to address not only what many deem our most important natural resource, but to consider the ways in which water’s qualities may yield productive insights into the present and future of popular music.
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Posted: September 2nd, 2013 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on 35th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
March 19-23, 2014
Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel
The ICFA welcomes papers on any aspect of the fantastic – broadly defined as including fantasy, science fiction, weird fiction, horror, gothic, and fairy tales – in Literature, Drama, Film, Music, Video Games and Comics. The Visual & Performing Arts and Audiences (VPAA) Division accepts papers on:
- visual arts such as comic books, paintings, architecture, sculpture, photographs and illustrations;
- the performing arts, including (film, TV, game, pop/rock) music, dance and theater;
- games, including fanfic, fan artwork and cosplay;
- transformative texts, both fan and professional, including mashups and viral marketing;
- and audience/reception studies concerning audiences for any medium or genre of the fantastic.
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Posted: August 7th, 2013 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Managing Popular Culture: Emergence, Strategy and the Development of Popular Phenomena
30 January – 1 February 2014
Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe
Keynote Lecture: Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths, University of London
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 6th Annual Convention of the “Popular Culture and Media” division within the German Association for Media Studies will explore the question “How does popular culture develop?” We invite presenters from different backgrounds and disciplines to a lively discussion on the intersections of economic, cultural and social aspects that form popular phenomena.
Academic scholarship so far has often drawn a strict borderline between strategic management approaches on the one hand, and subversive approaches, which draw on the creative and uncontrollable potential of popular culture on the other. While the first idea is associated with producers’ interests to control and operate a chaotic condition, the latter is predominantly linked to aesthetic and/or socio-analytical methods that all too often leave aside the economic context of popular phenomena.
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Posted: June 7th, 2013 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Pop-Life: The Value of Popular Music in the Twenty First Century
The University of Northampton, United Kingdom
6th and 7th June 2014
It has increasingly become a truism to suggest that contemporary popular music practice is in a state of flux. Established patterns of consumption, distribution and production have at the very least been revolutionised by the opportunities afforded by digitalisation and the internet. While subcultural identities may have become increasingly adopted by mainstream media, the proliferation of media outlets has contributed to an increasingly varied and cosmopolitan listening experience both in terms of stylistic breadth but also in terms of historical depth. While some commentators have sounded the death-knell of the music industry, others see an opening-up of opportunity for musicians and audiences around the world that may be far more liberating than at any time since the dawn of recorded music.
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Posted: May 16th, 2013 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on IASPM UK and Ireland Postgraduate Conference 2013: The Cultural Value of Popular Music
5th and 6th September, University of Glasgow
The 2013 IASPM UK and Ireland postgraduate conference, to be held at the University of Glasgow, invites papers exploring the cultural value of popular music. In light of the AHRC’s recently launched two-year Cultural Value Project (www.ahrc.ac.uk/funded-research/funded-themes-and-programmes/cultural-value-project), the conference will focus on both the experience of popular music and the economic and social benefits such an experience provides.
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