Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on El oído pensante
El oído pensante invites the submission of articles for the eighth volume (No. 2, 2020)
The aim of this biannual peer-reviewed online journal of free access is to promote debate on theoretical, methodological and epistemological dilemmas faced by different kind of music research. Since the intention of the journal is to promote critical thought aimed to dismantle usual concepts and to open new approaches, papers restricted to analyzing particular cases will not be accepted. However, it is expected that authors bring some cases into the text in order to support their main ideas.
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Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Artistry and Business of Queen; Past, Present and Future
Wednesday 10th June 2020, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Deadline for submissions: 28 February 2020
According to the most recent International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (I.F.P.I.) Global Recording Artist of the Year chart, published 26th February 2019, Queen were listed at Number 6 in the top 10. Thisindependently verified chart “includes sales of albums – across digital, CD and vinyl formats; singles, both downloaded and physical; and streams across the calendar year. The chart includes all the music of each artist featured, not just one track or album. It uses album equivalent units to combine measurements of downloads, physical sales and streams.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Déan é tú féin – DIY Music and Music Culture in Ireland
1 day Symposium
Date: 3rd April, 2020
Venue: School of Media Technological University Dublin
Submission Deadline: 20th January 2020
DIY music has a long history of credibility and success on the island of Ireland. From the Dublin punk scenes of the 1980’s and the Cork scene of the 1990’s to the fact the number one selling album of all time in Ireland was the front room produced White Ladder. From peace-work in the context of the Northern Irish Troubles to the sites of recent feminist struggles, DIY artists have often adopted a strong political stance and engaged in meaningful activist work through consciousness raising activities that have contributed to social change on the island of Ireland. DIY music culture in Ireland has exploded in recent years due to the proliferation of new technology and it remains a site for social and sonic experimentation affording diverse and new voices the opportunity to be heard. This symposium aims to bring together disparate voices to explore some of the myriad ways in which DIY culture has impacted Irish popular music.
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Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Symposium: Music Studies on a Damaged Planet: Sound Responses to Environmental Breakdown
Supported by the Institute of Musical Research (RHUL)
Senate House, London, 27th March 2020
If, as activist Greta Thunberg says, the only response to climate crisis is to ‘act as if our house is on fire’, where does this leave music studies? Music scholars, like the wider academy and society at large, have struggled to respond to the climate emergency and environmental breakdown. And while nature and the environment have been mounting thematic concerns in some recent work, the scale and complexity of the current ecological crisis and the urgent need for widespread systemic change raise questions about the roles and responsibilities of music scholarship as a whole. If we must now find ways to live on a damaged planet (Tsing, Swanson, Gan and Bubandt 2017), environmental breakdown is no longer simply a topic with which some music scholars choose to engage; rather, it is one of the conditions in which music studies operates.
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Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Global South Popular Music Perspectives
Date: Friday 28 February, 2020
Presentations from 9am to 5pm at the Garden Building, Bowen Street (above Streat Café), RMIT, with lunch provided, followed by DJ/VJ event at Loop Project Space & Bar featuring symposium participants.
Seeking papers from researchers to be presented on popular music-making and performance from the perspective of the ‘Global South’. We are also soliciting presentations from musicians, producers, DJs, and sound system operators.
Submit abstracts of 300 words to: [email protected] by 15 January 2020
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Posted: January 6th, 2020 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference 2020: Leisure Pasts, Presents and Futures
Manchester Metropolitan University
7-9 July 2020
Birley Campus
The Leisure Studies Association is delighted to open the first call for abstracts for its annual conference in 2020, including a special stream on music and sound in leisure spaces.
The conference offers the opportunity to explore leisure from a range of disciplinary perspectives, and to learn from industry and policy practitioners.
In 2020, its core theme is leisure pasts, presents and futures. Presenters and delegates are thus invited to consider:
- How has leisure been constructed, understood and enacted over time?
- What role does leisure play in addressing societal challenges today?
- How can the past inform the present in terms of leisure practice, policy and research?
- What are the future trends in policy, practice and research?
- Where and when do we make space for leisure in 2020?
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Posted: December 19th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Call for Chapters for Edited Collection on Psychedelic Music
This edited collection aims to bring together academic work on all kinds of psychedelic music, whether rock, folk, electronic or pop and would make an important contribution to an emerging field. For the purpose of this collection psychedelic music is conceptualized broadly: it can be music that imparts feelings of disorientation, temporal distortion, sensory overload or shift in perceptual frame, similar to those experienced with the use of psychoactive substances; music composed for the specific purpose of facilitating altered states; it can also be any music which accompanies and complements psychoactive substance use, whether widely considered psychedelic, or not.
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Posted: December 18th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Augmentation: past, futures, possibilities and pathways
AJIRN4 2020
Augmentation: past, futures, possibilities and pathways
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
https://www.ajirn.com
Key Note Speaker: (TBC)
Call for papers and performances:
The 2020 Australasian Jazz and Improvisation Research Network will be convened by the University of Tasmania (UTAS)
https://www.utas.edu.au/the-hedberg
Conference Date: 8th – 10th June 2020
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Posted: December 18th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Music in the Age of Streaming – Nordic Perspectives
IASPM-Norden conference 2020
Music in the Age of Streaming – Nordic Perspectives
PITEÅ, SWEDEN, 15–17 JUNE 2020
The IASPM-Norden conference aims to shed light on various aspects of streaming of/in popular music within the Nordic context. Nordic popular music is a dynamic field comprising a great variety of artists, music producers and entrepreneurs on both ends of the cultural spectrum, from commercially successful to less known and underground. More broadly, listening to popular music has become an evermore accessible activity in people’s everyday life, and so have the “streams” of music flowing across many borders – geographical, ideological, socioeconomic, cultural, disciplinary, etc. In addition to the everyday distribution and listening of music through digital networks, we contend specifically that “streaming” may also be used to conceptualize musical cultures beyond the scope of Spotify or other streaming services. That said, even an analysis of a platform like Spotify may benefit from an approach that investigates the deeper currents and flows of its streams, as pursued by Spotify Teardown (Eriksson et al. 2019) recently. With this conference we wish to engage with the many intersections of musical streams and invite papers that highlight the ways in which “streaming” characterize music and musical cultures.
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Posted: December 18th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Not Ready to Make Nice – Power, Threats and Harassments in Popular Music
30. Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Popularmusikforschung
Host: Popakademie Baden-Württemberg
Dates: 25. – 27. September 2020
Locations: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim/Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, Mannheim
in cooperation with Leuphana Universität Lüneburg as well as with the Jahrestagung des Bundesverbands Musikunterricht e.V.
Organizers: Michael Ahlers / David-Emil Wickström
Theme: Not Ready to Make Nice – Power, Threats and Harassments in Popular Music
Popular music cultures always reflect current social developments and debates, sometimes even forming a burning glass under which processes and products become even more clearly visible: In the context of the #metoo debates in the film industry, it quickly became clear that, unfortunately, various misconduct and institutional cover-up processes also take place on a regular basis in the music industry and at educational institutions. These processes have arguably existed for decades within the institutional education of prospective musicians and artists worldwide (!) (Lazar 2017; Payne et al. 2018; Knobbe & Möller 2018; Kerst 2019; Bartsch et al. 2019), but also within the global music industry. What is new is that musicians now have courage to speak up, show solidarity and increasingly bring accusations against sexual assaults to the public. One outcome is that in the area of so-called art music, for example, the Maestro cult is being demystified (Johnston 2017).
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