Researching Live Music: Gigs, Tours, Concerts and Festivals

Following publisher feedback, the previously advertised title of ‘Studying Live Music and Festivals’ has been amended to the following title, and is now under contract with Taylor & Francis/Routledge:

Researching Live Music: Gigs, Tours, Concerts and Festivals

Edited by:

Chris Anderton (Solent University, Southampton, UK)
Sergio Pisfil (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)

We would like to encourage scholars from all disciplines to present chapter proposals for research that relates to one of three broad areas of the live music ecology. First, research that reconsiders the role of technology in the production of music events. Second, research that examines the complex set of industries and issues that surround the promotion and business of live music. Finally, research that explores the social issues and factors involved in the consumption of live music performances. Our objective is to bring together solid methodological and theoretical positions to provide a critical resource that casts new light on the practices of live music – past or present, and from any part of the world. 

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Special issue of the Journal of Festive Studies on “The Materiality of Festivity”

In previous issues, the Journal of Festive Studies explored the emerging academic sub-field of festive studies (broadly defined) and the politics of carnival. For this issue, we follow Peter-Paul Verbeek’s advice and look at “the things themselves,” i.e. at the material culture in which carnivals and other festivities are rooted (Verbeek, 2005).

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British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2020

16-19 April 2020
Bath Spa University, Newton Park, Bath, UK

Keynote speaker: Dr Angela Impey (SOAS, University of London)

As with all BFE Annual Conferences we welcome papers and panels on any aspect of current ethnomusicological research.

The 2020 theme will be Music, Culture and Nature.

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78-88: Prince, The First Decade: An Interdisciplinary Conference

A two-day international conference hosted by The School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, United Kingdom and  the Department of Recording Industry, Middle Tennessee State University, USA.

June 3 & 4, 2020,  The Robert E. Jones Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center, University of Minnesota, 2001 Plymouth Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Organising Committee:

Dr Mike Alleyne, Dept. of Recording Industry, College of Media & Entertainment, Middle Tennessee State University.

Dr Kirsty Fairclough, School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK.

Kristen Zschomler, Minneapolis-based historian and writer, Sound History, LLC.

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Media Trades and Professions (18th to 21st Century)

AAC – SPHM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2020
June 4th to 6th, 2020 University of Lausanne (Switzerland)

This third edition of the SPHM International Conference is organised by the Society for Media History (la Société pour l’histoire des Médias, http://www.histoiredesmedias.com) and by the Centre for the Historical Sciences of Culture of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lausanne (le Centre des Sciences historiques de la culture de la Faculté des Lettres, https://www.unil.ch/shc), with the support of several research laboratories based in Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, and Québec1, including the National Audiovisual Institute (Institut national de l’audiovisuel) and the Historical Committee of the Audiovisual and Digital Observatory (Comité d’histoire de l’Observatoire de l’audiovisuel et du numérique).

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Sampling Politics Today

Musicians and sound artists in the 21st century often engage with politics in their music. However, this politics comes in new shapes and formats and is at times hidden from listeners and audiences. One way of bringing the political into music is the technique of sampling. So in «Sampling Politics Today» we are focusing on precisely this topic. We are looking for articles, podcasts, videos, photo series, or contributions in other formats that will lead to our first publication on the new Norient Space «The Now in Sound».

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Creative Identities in Transition: Higher Music Education & Employability in the 21st Century

27–29 February 2020
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria

Organisers: Rosa Reitsamer, Rainer Prokop
www.musiksoziologie.at

Keynote speaker: Christina Scharff, King´s College London, UK

Higher music education institutions aim at helping students to acquire skills and knowledge and to develop specific personal attributes to negotiate the initial stages of their careers as musicians and to attain employability and life-long learning. However, the learning cultures and practices of artistic valuation at music universities and conservatoires are hardly explored and employability is poorly defined and hard to measure, especially in the face of changing relations between study and work. These changes include, for example, individualisation processes, a growing number of music graduates competing for work and a decrease of publicly funded orchestras in many European countries. The process of becoming a musician is thus not simply about sequentially passing through particular stages of development. Rather, it entails the negotiation of significant and complex rites of passages increasingly associated with a heightened responsibility for constructing one’s own career and identity. Moreover, transitions from study to working life are shaped by gender, race, class and sexuality and include dilemmas in weaving together established normative and personal meanings. As a result, career trajectories remain, in many cases, “permanently transitional”.

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Music, Sound, Space and Place: Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies

British Forum for Ethnomusicology and Société française d’ethnomusicologie, Joint Autumn Conference 2019

31 October-2 November
Department of Music, City, University of London

The British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the Société française d’ethnomusicologie invite proposals on the general theme of ethnomusicology and sound studies for their joint 2019 autumn conference, which will be held at City, University of London.

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Third Working in Music Conference: Working in Music – Now and Then

University of Turku, Finland, 15-17 April 2020

The Working in Music Network (WIM) is pleased to announce its third Working in Music Conference, to be hosted by the University of Turku, Finland, in April 2020. The Conference follows the staging of previous WIM conferences in Glasgow (2016) and Lausanne (2018) and the establishment of the Network (https://wim.hypotheses.org/). WIM was launched in Lausanne in 2018 and has been established by scholars interested in the historical and contemporary nature of working in music. It has adopted the following Statement of Purpose:

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Documenting Jazz 2020

‘We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. Our vision is continually active, continually moving, continually holding things in a circle around itself, constituting what is present to us as we are’, John Berger, (ed.) Ways of Seeing. 1987.

Birmingham City University is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Documenting Jazz conference, to be held on 16–18 January 2020. Now in its second year, Documenting Jazz brings together colleagues from across the academic, archive, library, and museum sectors to explore and discuss documenting jazz. Since its first edition in Dublin 2019, the Documenting Jazz Conference aims to offer an unparalleled variety of experiences drawn from across the world. We hope to include contributions from individuals of all career stages, from established scholars and practitioners to those just starting their careers. We embrace the academic sector and other heritage and cultural organisations in partnership with each other and with communities. Our keynote speakers are drawn from across the academic sector to inspire debate and discussion amongst participants.

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