Balancing The Mix: A Conference on Popular Music and Social Justice

University of Memphis, 30 March 2019

The history of post-war popular music has been closely associated with concerns for social justice. It is not only that particular ideals (equality, community, rights, an end to oppression and discrimination) have animated the public sphere; it is also that those ideals have – whether we look at blues, gospel, world music, punk or hip-hop, for instance – been central in many music genres. This is no surprize, insofar as post-war popular music has developed in parallel with the rise of humanism, the postcolonial era, civil rights, the culture wars, and the rise of identity politics. In that sense, and more, music has been political, and further politicized: employed as an opportunity to establish empathy, express solidarity, and mobilize agents of change. Issues of social justice have in turn influenced public decisions about, for example, music funding, heritage and archiving. For this conference, we invite papers (or panels) based on topics related to popular music and social justice in the widest sense. These may include:

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Special Issue: Pop music festivals and (cultural) policies

IASPM@Journal
Guest editors: Beate Flath, Martin Cloonan and Adam Behr
Deadline for submitting abstracts: 31 August 2018
Deadline for submitting full papers: 14 January 2019

Ranging from jazz, through folk, to country, hip-hop, world music, dance music, rock and classical music, festivals are a vital part of contemporary popular music cultures. This vitality has been reflected by a growth in the field of festival research, which has become an inter- as well as a transdisciplinary area encompassing various perspectives on festivals and popular music culture. Amongst other approaches, previous studies have addressed questions on the complex relations of policies and pop music festivals. Set against this background, this special issue of the IASPM@Journal, the journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, wishes to encourage further critical reflection, research and debate in this field regarding the relational structure of pop music festivals, cultural and governmental policies, cultural/music/event management and cultural mediation.

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Mixtura’18

We invite you to submit a proposal to participate in Mixtura’18, an event hosted by the College of Communications & Arts of USFQ (Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador). Mixtura’18 is a connecting hub for the discussion of the current implications of media in Latin America and the world, from a political, social and creative perspective. The aim is to attract media scholars, journalists, media producers, designers, curators and artists, whose studies and/or practices reflect on the possibilities and issues of media nowadays.

The conference brings together academia and creative producers to discuss the ways in which they both interact under the topic: “Media and creativity in the post-digital era”. The event also features panel discussions and workshops. We believe you can make an important contribution to the discussion, and faculty could enhance their understanding of how technology-theory-methodology intersect. The event will accept proposals around the following topics:

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PIVOTAL 2018

MAJOR NEW INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INDUSTRY CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED FOR THE UK
PIVOTAL 2018 TAKES OVER BIRMINGHAM’S JEWELLERY QUARTER IN SEPTEMBER 2018
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1000 TRADES // ACTRESS & BISHOP // ASYLUM // AWAL // BASCA // BELIEVE DISTRIBUTION // BIRMINGHAM MUSIC COALITION // BIRMINGHAM PROMOTERS // BPI // CMU // FORMATION AUDIO // GIRAFFE AUDIO // FAT PENGUIN MANAGEMENT // MMF // MPG // PURITY BREWING CO // RESONATE // ROTOR // SENTRIC MUSIC // STIRLING’S// TICKET FAIRY // WARM
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– ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PANEL DISCUSSIONS, SURGERIES, NETWORKING ANNOUNCED TODAY
– EVENING SHOWCASES FEATURING REGIONAL TALENT PRESENTED BY MULTIPLE PROMOTERS
– NEW INDUSTRY BODY, BIRMINGHAM MUSIC COALITION, TO LAUNCH AT PIVOTAL 2018
– TICKETS GO ON GENERAL SALE FROM 1000 WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 VIA THE OFFICIAL PIVOTAL WEBSITE
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PIVOTAL MUSIC CONFERENCE 2018
0900 – 2230 FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2018
JEWELLERY QUARTER, BIRMINGHAM UK – 1000 TRADES, ACTRESS & BISHOP, ASYLUM, GIRAFFE AUDIO, RJJZ JAZZ BAR, STIRLING’S – MORE VENUES TBC
£16.50 INC BOOKING FEE

Official website | Official Facebook | Official Twitter | #pivotalbirmingham

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Living Metal: Metal Scenes around the World

Metal music has been around since Black Sabbath hit the first chord on its song “Black Sabbath.” Since that time Metal scenes are constantly being created, developed, stagnating, and growing all over the world—anywhere where Metal is played and cared about. Today, that means in just about every country on earth. This book, Living Metal: Metal Scenes around the World, is being published by Intellect Press. We are looking for researchers who will be examining Metal scenes in various parts of the world. We want to look at out of the way places and cultures just as much as well known places around the world. We currently have chapters being written about Johannesburg, South Africa; Dayton, Ohio; Hull, UK, and Helsinki, Finland. If possible, we want to learn about Metal Scenes in 6 of the 7 continents (we don’t believe that there is a scene in Antarctica, but please prove us wrong!).

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Memory, Migration and Movement

PARIS, 7-8 DECEMBER 2018

Annual Conference 2018 – Memory, Migration and Movement

PoP [Performances of the Popular] MOVES, in partnership with L’Université de Paris Nanterre and La Colonie, is now inviting submissions for the 2018 conference. The international research group for performances of the popular continues to advance the field by creating a new committee in France, to foster conversations and sharing between scholars, artists and institutions across linguistic worlds. To celebrate this expansion, PoP MOVES will hold a joint launch event and conference in Paris, to explore relationships between memory, migration and movement.

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Doing metal, being punk, doing punk, being metal: hybridity, crossover and difference in punk and metal subcultures

Punk Scholars Network 5^th Annual Conference and Postgraduate Symposium.

De Montfort University Leicester, December 13-14^th 2018

Programme here https://metalpunkconference.wordpress.com/programme

Hosted by the Punk Scholars Network in conjunction with the International Association of Metal Music Studies, the Journal of Punk and Post-Punk,the Journal of Metal Music Studies, Media and Communication Research Centre and Intellect Books.

Metal and punk cultures have long shared musical and cultural similarities. From Motörhead’s ubiquitous global presence, and the complex amalgam of Thrash Metal, Doom Metal, American Hardcore, Straight Edge, Japanese-based Burning Spirits, Black Metal, and DiY cultural production, one can see a plethora of hybridised and reinterpreted global music scenes.Indeed,the pervasive influence of metal and NWOBHM from the mid-1980s onwards has had an irreversible and notable effect on both punk and metal musical and cultural aesthetics (see Glasper, forthcoming, 2018).

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Mixing Pop and Politics: Call for Chapter Proposals

Editors:

Catherine Hoad (Massey University, Wellington)
Geoff Stahl (Victoria University, Wellington)
Oli Wilson (Massey University, Wellington)

Overview:

History provides us with ample instances of the power of popular music to speak to, through, and against various political moments. The contemporary socio-political situation of the late-2010s also offers countless opportunities to explore how popular music revisits, reconstitutes, rewrites and reconciles itself to this past. This current context necessitates an awareness of the complex position of popular music, and the new directions it must negotiate, as music responds to the shifting paradigms of power in which we currently find ourselves.

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Popular x Traditional

11-13 January 2019, RUANG Think City, Kuala Lumpur

Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2018

The IASPM-SEA Conference (IASPM-SEA 2019), hosted by RUANG Think City, will take place on Friday 11^th to Sunday 13^th January 2019 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This international conference will feature research and performances about the interaction, convergence and contestation of popular music with traditional music in Southeast Asia. We also welcome proposals of / from / on any region that relate to the conference theme or subthemes.

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Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) annual meeting

The Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) will hold its annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland from November 8-10, 2018. The CFP deadline is June 30, 2018.

The MAPACA 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:

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