Posted: October 2nd, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on Gathering Diversities, Sounding Justice
IASPM-Canada Annual Conference
University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
May 27-29, 2018
Submission deadline: November 30, 2017
The 2018 IASPM-CA annual conference will take place at the University of Regina from May 27-29 in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which has announced “Gathering Diversities” as its theme (the Congress theme is described at https://www.uregina.ca/congress2018/theme.html). In conversation with this broader theme, IASPM-CA encourages participants to explore questions concerning popular music, its aims and claims regarding diversity, and its impact in promoting equity in a wide range of contexts and scenes. Diversity has long been a stated goal for institutions, organizations, and communities of all types, yet diversity remains a complex and contested issue, particularly in the field of popular music. To what extent does popular music productively model and promote diversity, and to what extent does diversity extend beyond surface appearances to institutional structures? To what extent is diversity in itself a laudable goal if not accompanied by equity and social justice? How do popular music and popular music studies either promote or impede diversity, equity, and social justice?
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Posted: September 18th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Third International Conference of The Progect Network for the study of progressive rock
Following two fruitful, well-attended and very enjoyable conferences in Dijon (2014) and Edinburgh (2016), the third international Progect conference will be held on the 23rd, 24th and 25th May 2018 in Lund, Sweden. The conference is an opportunity to cover different aspects of progressive rock and promote awareness of current research around the world.
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Posted: September 16th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Royal Musical Association Conference 2018
University of Bristol, Sept 2018
Deadline: 5pm (GMT), Friday 24 November 2017
The integration of performance, composition and musicology is a principle of the Department of Music at the University of Bristol, and the Call for Proposals includes calls for acoustic and electroacoustic compositions. The programme committee invites proposals for the following:
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Posted: September 5th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Eaves
The Eaves is an online journal that features writing about sound, sound about writing, and everything in between. Aspiring to challenge the assumption that language is tuned to the visual more than to the auditory, it showcases essays, short fiction, and poetry that are all ears as well as sound pieces that deal with sound‘s relation to speech, writing, or both.
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Posted: September 3rd, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Royal Musical Association Study Day: Identity and Vinyl Culture
Saturday 18th November 2017
University of Birmingham
Keynote speaker: Paul Long, Professor of Media and Cultural History, Birmingham City University
The Department of Music at the University of Birmingham is delighted to host a Royal Musical Association Study Day. We welcome postgraduate researchers and practitioners from all areas of music to present their work in an inclusive, accessible and supportive space. We welcome submissions that engage with the study day theme of “Identity and Vinyl Culture”.
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Posted: September 3rd, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on El oído pensante
El oído pensante invites the submission of articles for the sixth volume (No. 1, 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.
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Posted: August 31st, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Writing the noise: the politics and history of subcultural music
The 2nd International Conference of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change
University of Reading
6–7 September 2018
Confirmed keynote speakers and events:
Simon Reynolds, author of Shock and Awe, Retromania, Energy Flash and Rip It Up and Start Again
Professor Lucy Robinson, University of Sussex, ‘Less History of Zines, More Zines as History’
Plenary panel of music journalists: from the mainstream to the pop press to fanzines, featuring Simon Reynolds, David Stubbs and Cathi Unsworth
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Posted: August 25th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on What Difference Does It Make? Music and Gender
2018 MoPOP Pop Conference
April 26-29, 2018, Seattle WA
Popular media in the 21st century is rife with radical differences around gender. Even as audiences cheer on shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race, viewers and voters reward toxic masculinity at the box office and the ballot box. Popular music voices and reinforces, or challenges and explodes, assumptions about gender, which itself intersects race, ethnicity, sex, the family, labor, religion and morality. The artists we select in canons, historiography, and the musical moment represent an intimate referendum on the subject. Gender performance has a long history: crooners of the 1930s “pansy craze,” the bull daggers of classic blues, pop stars exploiting the feminine ideal from Doris Day to Britney Spears and workingman heroes like Muddy Waters and Bruce Springsteen. Today’s gender-fluid groundbreakers, like Anohni and Syd, follow on vaudeville’s Annie Hindle and rocker Little Richard. Musical virtuosity and technique, too, are gendered, from the hypermasculinity of hip hop’s “wheels of steel” or rock’s technophallic guitar heroics to disco’s feminized vocal soarings. And gender frames genre: distinctions of salsa dura and salsa romántica or monga (flaccid) echo in country’s “hardcore” honkytonk and “soft shell” crossover divide.
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Posted: August 13th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Jazz Voices
12th International Jazz Research Conference Graz
17 – 20 May 2018
Institute for Jazz Research, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria)
International Society for Jazz Research
Conference Chairs
André Doehring and Christa Bruckner-Haring
Conference Outline
Although singing has been integral to jazz from its beginnings, comparatively little research has been conducted on vocal jazz and the sounds and expressions of jazz voices. The 12th International Jazz Research Conference, entitled Jazz Voices, will focus on exactly this theme. The conference will take place from 17 – 20 May 2018 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz and will be hosted by the University’s Institute for Jazz Research, in cooperation with the International Society for Jazz Research.
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Posted: August 12th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Gender Politics in the Music Industry
IASPM Journal 8/1 (2018)
Special Issue Editors: Catherine Strong and Sarah Raine
Gender in music has been considered in terms of performance, genre, and audience cultures, yet gender politics within the music industry itself remains under-researched. Offering an opportunity to engage at the intersection between musical production, the creative industries and gender politics, this call for papers aims to bring together research that considers the gender politics of the music industry itself: of work relationships; the spaces of production; the processes of decision making; the creation of musical experiences in festivals and tours.
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