Series editors – Rosemary Lucy Hill and Keith Kahn-Harris
We are delighted to announce the first scholarly book series on heavy metal: Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture publishes monographs, edited collections and research books about metal and its associated subgenres within the humanities and social sciences.
Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, Loughborough University
28-29 June 2017 | Co-organised by Allan Watson and Michael Hoyler
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It is almost twenty years since the publication of the landmark text The Place of Music (Leyshon et al. 1998) put the complex relationships between music and place firmly on the research agenda. In those twenty years, technological developments have profoundly impacted upon musical production and consumption in ways which have not only changed the relationships between music and place in a geographical sense, but the place of music in society and the economy
more fundamentally. This two day conference takes this anniversary as an opportunity to bring together musical scholars from across the social sciences to consider and debate the place of music in 21st Century economy and society. The conference will be based broadly, although not exclusively, around four overlapping key themes:
The Chilean Musicology Society and the University of Santiago de Chile are calling for submissions to the IX Chilean Musicology Congress, to be held in July 12-15, 2017 at the main campus of said university.
We invite Chilean and international scholars to present unpublished work that addresses the complex relationship between music and the concept of crisis in its various connotations. This concept generally conveys negative meanings and is simply considered “a condition of instability or danger.” But a crisis can also be regarded as “a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined; a turning point” (RHDEL).
A symposium at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, 27-28 April 2017
Grace Jones’ contributions to multiple fields of culture over more than forty years – especially music, performance, fashion, and film – have established her as an iconic figure. To mark the 40th anniversary of her debut album, Portfolio, the University of Edinburgh is holding a two-day symposium on Jones’ diverse range of work and its enduring significance and influence.
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University of the Arts London, July 25th – 27nd, 2017
Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed for the sixth annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), to be held at the University of the Arts London (272 High Holborn), July 25th – 27nd, 2017.
EUPOP 2017 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, Celebrity, The Body, Fashion, New Media, Popular Literature and Graphic Novels, Queer Studies, Sport, Curation, and Digital Culture. One particular strand will be devoted to fascism and popular culture.
The closing date for this call is Tuesday 28th February, 2017.
28–29 March 2017
On 28–29 March 2017, the Department of Musicology, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic is holding an international and interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the presentation, summary and evaluation of existing research in the field of popular music in communist and post-communist Europe.
Editors: Eduardo Viñuela and Cande Sánchez-Olmos
Music is important for brands because it creates value and engagement, and turns consumers into fans. Music and advertising have always reproduced their relationship in different media (press, radio, Tv, internet), and their adaptation to the codes and dynamics of each medium is a challenge for the implement of innovative narratives. Nowadays, media convergence has opened new ways of transmediality that multiply the possibilities of interaction among music and advertising. Thus, brands have begun to produce music as a strategy to improve their status and to profit from the values of music. In this context of media convergence and participative culture, it is necessary to approach the new procedures, codes and transmedia storytelling that brands are developing to engage with a demanding, disperse and disloyal target.
As part of the celebrations for the re-opening of the newly refurbished Musical Instrument Museum Edinburgh at St. Cecilia’s Hall – and as a warm up event to the joint conference of the Galpin Society and the American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS) to be held in Edinburgh on 1-4 June 2017 – the Reid School of Music is delighted to announce an afternoon workshop on the theme of “Designing Musical Instruments.”
24th – 26th May 2017
Media City UK, University of Salford, UK.
A two-day international conference hosted by The School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK and the Department of Recording Industry, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
Convenors:
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
Tim France, School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK
Proposals are invited for a two-day international conference on the life and legacy of Prince.
AHRC network 2016-17, Call for Contributions
‘One good thing about music is when it hits you, you feel no pain’ – Bob Marley, ‘Trenchtown rock’ (1973)
DEADLINE 8th DECEMBER 2016
This Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded network is a joint initiative between the Translating Cultures theme and the Connected Communities programme, and is open to researchers and partners funded under those areas, as well as to the wider academic and music communities.