Posted: January 16th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Popular Music & Society: Special Issue on Regional and Rural Popular Music Scenes
Guest-edited by Andy Bennett, David Cashman, and Natalie Lewandowski
Popular Music and Society invites article proposals for a special issue on Regional and Rural Popular Music Scenes. There is now an established body of literature on popular music scenes (see, for example, Straw, “Systems of Articulation, Logics of Change: Scenes and Communities in Popular Music”; Shank, Dissonant Identities; Bennett and Peterson, Music Scenes: Local, Translocal and Virtual). Significantly, however, this literature is heavily centered on the urban metropolitan experience of music scenes or “music cities.” While such work is clearly important in understanding the cultural and economic importance of music, the dominance of this metro-centric approach also serves to further detract attention from regional and rural spaces and places, the latter also providing important settings for the production, performance, and consumption of popular music (Waitt and Gibson, “The Spiral Gallery: Non-Market Creativity and Belonging in an Australian Country Town”). This special issue will bring together a series of papers that will offer new insights regarding both the distinctive contributions made by regional and rural music scenes in the contemporary world and their connections to national and transnational networks of popular music production, performance, and consumption.
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Posted: January 16th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Progressive Methods in Popular Music Education Symposium
Inaugural Symposium: Canadian Popular Music Education Network
The Progressive Methods in Popular Music Education Symposium seeks to bring together researchers, practitioners and others concerned with viewing popular music education through a progressive lens.
Presentation proposals and workshops on any aspect of popular music progressive methodology are welcome. The conference will be organized under the three strands below:
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Posted: January 12th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on To Each Their Own Pop: Music, Cinema and Television in Europe in the Period of the Youth Movements (1960-1979)
Call for Essays: Cinéma&Cie, no. 31 – Special issue edited by Massimo Locatelli, Alessandro Bratus and Miguel Mera
The scope of this issue is to gather papers related to a decisive period in the development of audiovisual media in contemporary Europe: the 60’s and 70’s are linked with different patterns of economic growth and consumption across different countries, but nevertheless related to the diffusion of television and the new technologies in the record industry, from both the point of view of production and reproduction. Such changes determined the emergence of new forms of expression, media aggregation and consumption behaviors with respect to the past.
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Posted: January 10th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Reggae Innovation and Sound System Culture
SOUND SYSTEM EXHIBITION LAUNCH, MARCH 21st 2018
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND MUSIC EVENTS, APRIL 4 & 5th 2018 BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY, BIRMINGHAM UK.
Birmingham City University and The University of West Indies are delighted to announce a forthcoming international conference on reggae culture and sound system innovation, and give notice of a forthcoming call for conference papers. Information on submission processes will be published in December.
The conference will be hosted in The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire at BCU, with its world-leading concert venues and conference facilities. The conference will also allow you entry to a number of planned reggae events and performances.
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Posted: January 10th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Participatory Approaches to Music & Democracy
The conference isaScience 2018 is part of isa, the International Summer Academy of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria.
https://www.mdw.ac.at/isa/isascience
Conference date: 10–14 August 2018
Conference venue: Hotel Marienhof, Reichenau an der Rax, Austria
Keynote: David Hesmondhalgh, Professor for Media, Music and Culture, University of Leeds, UK
Organisers: Dagmar Abfalter, Marko Kölbl, Rosa Reitsamer, Fritz Trümpi
Over the last few decades, a rich body of literature has explored how individuals and groups use music as a resource to achieve social, cultural and political participation and to bring about social change in society.
Studies have also investigated music’s use by political groups and parties in the past and present that impose
authoritarian, neoliberal or even fascist political ideas. Finally, research is concerned with the promise and
myth of democratization through technology in regard to music production, distribution and reception/appropriation.
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Posted: January 9th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on El oído pensante
Volume 6 (No. 2, 2018)
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. Submission guidelines in:
http://ppct.caicyt.gov.ar/index.php/oidopensante/about/submissions#authorGuidelines.
Papers in Spanish, Portuguese and English will be accepted by March 31, 2018.
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Posted: January 4th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on 49th Annual Conference of IASA
1-4 October 2018, at the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
Conference theme: Access and Accessibility – Archival Policies and Barriers in the Age of Global Information Exchange
Open and equal access to information is in high demand, yet may be impeded by social, cultural, and economic barriers. The question of access at the same time encourages discussions on the technical, legal, and practical modes of accessibility.
The programme committee for the IASA 2018 conference invites proposals focused on the prospects and limitations of global and local access and accessibility to audiovisual archives, as well as on issues of discovery, care, preservation and dissemination of our sound and audiovisual heritage.
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Posted: January 4th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on EUPOP 2018
Charles University, Prague, July 24th – 26th, 2018
Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed for the seventh annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), to be held at the Charles University, Prague (Celetná 20), July 24th – 26th, 2018.
EUPOP 2018 will explore European popular culture in all its various forms. This includes, but is by no means limited to, the following topics: European Film (past and present), Television, Music, Costume and Performance, Celebrity, The Body, Fashion, New Media, Popular Literature and Graphic Novels, Queer Studies, Sport, Curation, and Digital Culture. A special emphasis this year will be on the idea of European Identity in all its diversity.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Institute of Registered Music Teachers New Zealand Annual Conference
21st – 25th January 2019
Otago University, St Margaret’s College, Dunedin, New Zealand
Southern Themes and Variations
The Institute of Registered Music Teachers New Zealand Annual Conference January 2019 invites participants to consider the challenges, present and future, of teaching music in the twenty-first century. At a time when music may be marginalised through cultural shifts and changes in educational priorities, how can the music teacher both adapt to and remain relevant within this new environment? What can teachers at different levels (primary through tertiary) and in different contexts (private tuition vs. itinerant vs. institutions) learn from one another? How are decisions made at higher educational levels affecting teaching practices on a day-to-day basis? With these questions as springboards, we particularly welcome submissions that address, directly and indirectly, the following themes:
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Posted: December 12th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Popular Culture Association of Canada (PCAC) 8th Annual Conference
May 3-5, 2018
The eighth annual Conference of the Popular Culture Association of Canada will be held at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada from Thursday, May 3 to Saturday, May 5, 2018.
We invite proposals for papers and/or panels on theories of popular culture, research methods in popular culture, the teaching of popular culture, forms and genres of popular culture, and any epiphenomena of popular culture, past or present. We also invite presentation and exhibition proposals from visual and multimedia artists whose work engages with popular culture.
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