Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, July 16th – 18th, 2019
EXTENDED Deadline: 26th April, 2019
Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed for the eighth annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), to be held at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, July 16th – 18th, 2019.
The Music and/as Process RMA Study Group are pleased to announce the following Call for Proposals for their event at the ICMP in London on 26th July.
This will not be a typical conference event as we have held before, but will focus on the process, and processes, of realising collaborative scores. Therefore the day will consist of workshops, discussion, and eventual performance of the music selected.
10 September 2019, National University of Ireland, Galway
Punk Scholars Network invites proposals for presentations as part of our postgraduate symposium on subcultures and aesthetics at National University of Ireland, Galway. This symposium will explore how subcultures connect to aesthetics and createwhat Pierre Bourdieu calls the space of possibles, a space for radical politics to be formed through the means of artistic productions. From do-it-yourself methods of street art to the shock-effect of Dadaist and punk attitudes in different time-places, the close relationship between subcultures and aesthetics continues to reflect the turbulences of our political atmosphere. From music and literatureto cinema and other art forms, this symposium will offer a platform for postgraduate students who wish to share their research, explore critical approaches and analyse the complexities of the relationship between subcultures and aesthetics.
International conference, October 10th-12th, 2019
Hosted and organized by the University of Aveiro and INET-md (Portugal) and co-organized by the International Society for the Promotion and Research of Wind Music (IGEB)
The research team project “Our music, our world: Musical associations, wind bands, and local communities (1880-2018)” is pleased to invite submissions of proposals for the International conference Our music, our world: wind bands and local social life, to be held in Aveiro, at the Departamento de Comunicação e Arte da Universidade de Aveiro, from the 10th to 12th of October 2019.
November 7-9, 2019 Pittsburgh, PA — Pittsburgh Marriott City Center Hotel
MAPACA’s (Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association) Music Area aims to study and advance understandings of the relationship between music and popular culture in various contexts. The area is open to many disciplines and scholarly perspectives. Presenters are encouraged to submit their best work on any topic related to the music of the America’s. This may include but is not limited to:
A One-Day Conference with George McKay, Catherine Tackley and Alyn Shipton, June 7th 2019, University of Central Lancashire
This conference will bring together the latest research in jazz as it has been appropriated, assimilated and created/recreated in European culture. As the question of Europe is being put under pressure by Brexit and nationalist movements across the continent, this conference will seek to situate jazz as both a marginal and mainstream cultural practice which is inherently borderless and multivalent.
We will be hosting a 1-2 day symposium at Mansions of the Future in Lincoln (UK) on the 4th and 5th of July 2019* on the subject of punk pedagogies as part of the Punk Scholars’ Network’s series of themed symposiums.
Monday 1st July 2019 – University of Central Lancashire, Preston
A conference which will examine the intersection between music and law, with a particular focus on the current legal and business challenges posed by a morphing, transnational, mid-digital marketplace.
Arguably the most rapidly expanding area of audio production is that of 3-D audio – surround sound with representation of height. Such playback is increasingly commonplace in cinemas, and multi-speaker home setups and sound-bars are following. In parallel, headphone-based 360° spatial audio is experiencing huge growth, and the technologies that underpin this are steadily improving. Such listening is being driven by virtual and augmented reality, and beyond gaming, soon such applications will proliferate into many areas of daily life – from productivity to education, through social networking to music playback.
1-day conference, Senate House, London, 7 June 2019
CfP Deadline: March 30, 2019
Confirmed keynote speaker: Prof Nicholas Reyland, Royal Northern College of Music
Narrativity — the property of conveying or otherwise evoking a story — is one of the most compelling components of popular music. Storytelling in music can operate in complex and, at times, ambiguous ways that are distinct and sometimes divergent, from other narrative media such as film, television and literature, offering the exciting opportunity of media-conscious analytical approaches. As entertainment music media have evolved, so has how and where this type of narrativity operates, from the pub and music hall to screen media, the sphere of private listening and the internet. Moreover, the organisation of sound through technology (e.g. studio-based production and mixing) has created new parameters for expression that raise new opportunities to interrogate narrativity beyond lyrics or notated detail. Finally, encouraged by the increasing presence of music on the internet, there are now more forms within which narrativity can emerge than ever before, such as multimedia concept albums, long-form music video and transmedia projects rooted in popular music.