Posted: March 17th, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945
The British Academy, London
Thursday 13 January – Saturday 15 January 2011
Proposals are invited for this conference, to be held at the British Academy in London, in conjunction with the University of Nottingham.
The relationship between state communism and music behind the Iron Curtain has been the subject of much scholarly interest. The importance of communism for musicians outside the communist bloc, by contrast, has received little sustained attention. This conference aims to examine:
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Posted: March 11th, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on IASPM Australia-New Zealand Annual Conference
Instruments of Change
24-26 November 2010
Monash Conference Centre
Level 7, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne
School of English, Communications and Performance Studies / School of Music
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Conference Theme
Popular music is a dynamic cultural force. The acts of listening, playing, dancing, composing and recording are undertaken in a constant state of flux, further complicated by flows of space and time. This conference invites papers that consider popular music as a powerful social agent. This may include analysis of current or past uses of music instruments as the sound-producing objects of change, or particular uses of technologies and human voices of change. The conference also welcomes investigations of the institutions and discourses within which the sound, the event and the experience are created, and their relationships to social change.
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Posted: March 1st, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Popular Music Fan Culture: A One Day Symposium
Binks Building, University of Chester
Northwest Popular Music Studies Network
Friday 25th June 2010
While a range of researchers in cultural studies – notably Henry Jenkins, Matt Hills and Cornell Sandvoss – have moved the discussion about media fandom forward, much less work has been done specifically on popular music fandom. We invite contributors from a wide range of disciplines to discuss topics associated with popular music fan culture at this free one-day study event in Chester. Themes for papers may include (but are not limited to):
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Posted: February 27th, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Business of Live Music
A conference to mark the completion of the AHRC funded project ‘The Promotion of Live Music in the UK–an Historical, Cultural and Institutional Analysis’ – University of Edinburgh, March 31/April 1 2011.
We invite papers on any aspect of the business of live music from any disciplinary perspective. Themes for discussion include the history of live music, promotion as a business, live music and the state, the value of live music, and the live musical experience. Papers on any kind of music are welcome, classical or popular, successful or obscure! Presentations will be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes and proposals should be no more than 200 words.
Closing date for proposals: September 1 2010.
For further information please contact Simon Frith ([email protected]) or Martin Cloonan ([email protected]).
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Revise: The Art and Science of Contemporary Remix Culture
Dec 2-3, 2010
University of Wollongong http://uow.edu.au , Wollongong, Australia
In a media saturated environment, questions about authoriality and the ownership of cultural content have come to be increasingly urgent. A number of recent, high profile legal cases have highlighted the difficulties involved in adjudicating between different models of ownership and of cultural production. Furthermore, online environments render local, fannish, and ‘amateur’ forms of cultural production (frequently drawing on ‘Big Content’) increasingly visible – sometimes to the apparent detriment of these forms of vernacular creativity.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Jazz and Race, Past and Present
A conference at The Open University, 11-12 November, 2010
Keynote speaker: Guthrie Ramsey, Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania and author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (2003).
Emerging at the confluence of diverse streams, the genre we know as jazz was made predominantly by African-Americans for a good deal of its history. Indeed, African-American musicians and critics have often claimed the form as their own, part of their people’s struggle to assert their humanity in the face of a racialised structure of power which would deny it. However, year by year this position grows more difficult to sustain as jazz spreads around the world, and more musicians of other ethnic origins, and who are socially positioned in different ways, enter the field. Often they bring their own distinct musical and cultural resources to bear on the problem of making jazz. Meanwhile, of course, racial oppression persists in western and other societies.
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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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