The UoW Annual Black Music Symposium at the British Library

20th  October 2023

The black music research unit (BMRU) and its research methods are designed to provide greater access and ownership toblack British-born individuals of their history within the academic ‘ivory tower’. In the academic literature these individuals have become subject to erasure and invisibility for successive generations. Examples include histories of popular music where they are largely overlooked in analyses of punk and its successor genres. This is despite punk and reggae’s co-existing, and were subject to considerable music collaboration and overlap in the 1970s. Many of this first generation, whilst now elderly, have important stories to tell, and objects and recordings to share. These stories should inform second and third generation black British-born individuals. All three generations are central to the research programme and ongoing discourse, and will feature in a new exhibition at the British Library in 2024.

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Jazz Futures

ANU’s School of Music, Canberra, Australia
March 13-15, 2024

The School of Music at the Australian National University hosts a three-day conference exploring new and future directions in jazz research, collaboration, education, and performance praxis. With the theme Jazz Futures, we highlight three key themes relevant for examining present and potential transformations within jazz worlds in the twenty first century:

1. Intercultural Jazz: Jazz Fissures and Fusions;
2. Reimaging the Jazz Artist;
3. Jazz in the Digital Age.

Dates: March 13-15, 2024

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Music education among refugee and migrant youths: sharing, belonging, including

Music and Arts in Action – Thematic Issue

Edited by Alix Didier Sarrouy (Nova University Lisbon) and Chrysi Kyratsou (Queen’s University Belfast)
Submission of abstracts – until October 15th 2023

Forced migration and musical engagement
In the global context of forced exiles, music is a significant artistic resource for promoting education among young migrants and refugees, which encourages the potential for social inclusion (Marsh, 2016; Odena, 2022; O’Neill, 2008). Music educators, and the organisations for which they work, attempt to ensure the efficiency of this resource. The actions and reactions that each musical setting accommodates are versatile, determined by the intersections among migrant populations, host
cultures, caring organisations, and the socio-eco-political contexts within which these actions take place. Bearing this in mind, the pedagogical methods and the particularities of music may become crucial tools for education, inclusion, and citizenship.

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A Century of Sound: Technology, Culture and Performance

The 8th Global Reggae Conference
+ Sound System Outernational #10
+ UWI 75th Anniversary

The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
14 – 17th February 2024

From the 1940s to present day, sound systems have rocked the world with word, sound and power. From Kingston’s streets to the world’s biggest festival stages, the Jamaican-born institution of the sound system has deeply influenced the way music is produced, performed, remixed and enjoyed all over the world. The 2024 edition of the Global Reggae Conference celebrates and investigates the culture and technology of Jamaica’s most famous musical instrument.

The triennial Global Reggae Conference extends its reach to engage academics within a wide field of scholastic orientations and practices for its 8th staging. In celebration of the cultural, technological and productive space created by the sound system, both locally and globally, the conference aims to bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, sound producers, researchers, writers, critics, music aficionados, and artists to share research findings, ideas and perspectives.

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SEM Student News 19.2 “Ethnomusicology Now”

This is the first call for submissions for the Fall/Winter 2023 issue of SEM Student News. We are calling this new issue, vol. 19, no. 2, “Ethnomusicology Now.” We welcome submissions across a range of topics, current student interests, and concerns within ethnomusicology or related academic disciplines.

We are currently accepting submissions for the following categories:

Student articles (c. 500–2000 words) related to any topic within ethnomusicology and neighboring disciplines. Authors are encouraged to submit pieces incorporating a variety of media (written with visual, audio, and/or video components). A highly collaborative process, there will be multiple rounds of editing and feedback prior to publication.
Student photography, artwork, or creative writing (with attendant permissions and appropriately publishable captions, which must be submitted with the images).
Group submissions (c. 500 words per person) around a topic of choice highlighting current student concerns or interests.

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The war of the waves revisited. Cultural and political uses of radio within contexts of domination

RadioMorphoses thematic issue n°11
Francophone journal dedicated to radio and sound studies

Coordination : Tristan Le Bras (Mondes Américains – EHESS) and Thomas Leyris (IRHIS – Université de Lille).

This thematic issue will gather researchers working on radio in contexts characterized by domination. Although it will especially welcome articles focusing on the uses of radio in colonial settings (Balandier, 1951), in situations characterized by racial domination (Wacquant, 1997) or ethnic domination (Brubaker, 2002), proposals relating to the wider field of domination (social, cultural, gendered, etc.) can be considered. The central question at the basis of this volume will be to analyze the dynamics binding together radio, community and power ; either in aiming to reproduce social hierarchies or to contest it. We would also like to reflect about conceptual divergences depending on the cultural area conducting the research. Although similar processes are scrutinized in diverse radio settings, concepts such as race1, class, nation, gender, etc., are not always mobilized in the same manner. Is it because of structural differences in the field, or differential epistemologies according to different scientific cultures? This volume presents the opportunity for a comparative exercise over this matter.

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Home, Work and Music: Musical Practices in Domestic Spaces

22 – 23 February 2024
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Fanny Hensel- Hall

What does it mean to make and perform music in the home? Home, Work and Music explores issues and debates centred around music in domestic spaces. It will showcase current research on the empirical, methodological and theoretical implications of centring the domestic in music research.

Domestic spaces are regularly overlooked in scholarly, sectoral and policy discourses, but their significance as entangled sites of music creation and performance, and the issues raised by their visibility are striking and urgent. From basements to bedrooms, domestic settings are key nodal points where personal lives, global digital infrastructures and creative networks meet. Scrutiny of the lived realities of these digitally porous sites affords critical insights into technological
mediations of musicians’ creative labour in the home.

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The Journal of Beatles Studies

Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce a call for contributions for the fourth issue of The Journal of Beatles Studies. The aims of the journal are to provide a voice to new and emerging research locating the Beatles in new contexts, groups and communities from within and beyond academic institutions; to inaugurate, innovate, interrogate and challenge narrative, cultural historical and musicological tropes about the Beatles as both subject and object of study; to publish original and critical research from Beatles scholars around the globe and across disciplines.

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Popular Music Songwriting as Cultural, Creative, and Economic Practice

Yearbook ‘Lied und Populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture’ of the Centre for Popular Culture and Music, Vol. 69 (2024), ed. by Michael Ahlers, Jan-Peter Herbst, and Knut Holtsträter.

This yearbook aims to shed light on the historical development and the current state of popular music songwriting in all its aspects. Possible topics and approaches include (but are not limited to):

• Concepts of the relationship between mainstream and marginalized music cultures in the 21st century;
• Influences of standardization, platformisation, and propertisation on songwriting processes or products;
• Singer-songwriters and the folk narrative (contemporary and historical practices);
• Songwriter/composer/producer: terminology and understanding of their roles;
• Literacy and orality in songwriting;
• Historical and current songwriting centres and collaborations (e.g., Music Hall, Tin Pan Alley, Brill Building, Motown, Nashville’s Music Row, London’s Denmark Street, PWL, Stock/Aitken/Waterman, Xenomania, Cheiron Studios, Prescription Songs);
• Business of songwriting and publishing;
• Songwriting as profession and labour;
• Teaching songwriting in and outside music pedagogy;
• Legal and ethical issues of songwriting;
• Contemporary songwriting practices, techniques, or arrangements (e.g., Svengali collaboration between pop artists and backroom songwriters, songwriting camps);
• Production as a part of songwriting, songwriting as a part of production;
• Genre-specifics in songwriting;
• Instruments and tools of songwriting
• Creativity myths and (self-)exploitation of artists;
• Computer-assisted songwriting and artificial intelligence.

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Bad Religion: Punk Politics, Philosophy, and Pedagogy

Call for Chapters

Editors:

• Ellen Bernhard, Assistant Professor of Digital Communication, Georgian Court University, US
• Paul Fields, Senior Lecturer in Music, Buckinghamshire New University, UK

Contact: [email protected]

Deadline for Submissions: 31 July 2023

With over 40 years of experience, 17 studio albums, and an extensive (and continuing) touring schedule, Bad Religion’s impact on music and culture is one worth investigating. The purpose of this edited volume will be to explore the impact of Bad Religion as a steadfast entity in a music genre notorious for its ephemeral tendencies. Because of this, we are interested in pursuing multidisciplinary perspectives on the subject of Bad Religion, seeking academic contributions that will examine different elements of the band’s decades-long tenure in order to demonstrate how Bad Religion’s role in punk rock’s history remains relevant today.

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