Posted: July 27th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on IASPM@Journal: Practice-Led and Practice-Based Popular Music Studies
Popular music studies is routinely presented in the form of visual media, as writing and notation, despite music being fundamentally aural and oral. Art music, by contrast, presents new musical creations as research, using sound to explore new research ideas. However, few opportunities arise for popular music scholars similarly to present recordings as research. This special issue invites researchers, composers, performers and producers to present research in the form of audio recordings. It may be that the research output in this case is the sound artifact submitted (practice-based research), or that the research is focused in the main on the recording (practice-led research). Submissions are therefore expected to be in the form of oral/aural culture as well as related to oral/aural cultures.
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Posted: July 18th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Popular Music and Society: Special Issue on Beyoncé
Guest-edited by Marquita Smith, Kristin McGee, and Christina Baade
Submissions are invited for a special issue of Popular Music and Society on the musical and cultural impact of Beyoncé.
The 2016 launch of Lemonade and the Formation World Tour–along with Beyoncé’s numerous other mass-mediated performances, musical releases, and actions–inspire not only informal evaluations of her music and public persona, but also scholarly, in-depth investigations of the values, aesthetics, and cultural significance of her work. Moreover, Beyoncé has played a profound role in intervening in and catalyzing debates about feminism, social justice movements, Black culture, and sexuality within the public sphere. Because of the extreme versatility and dynamic range of her artistic oeuvre and the ideologies reflected by her public engagements and social initiatives, we seek to compile an issue that correspondingly highlights this complexity. Articles may therefore introduce a range of topics and perspectives. These may include innovative creation of visual albums; the incorporation of images of Black culture and Black history into Beyoncé’s creative work; her adroit exploitation of social and commercial media to promote her public and artistic persona; and her nonmusical but socially engaged activities in connection with various causes, especially connected to Black/Southern communities of the United States. We also seek to investigate the diverse meanings and pleasures that Beyoncé’s work holds for her fans, who represent a range of cultural backgrounds; racial, sexual, and gender identities; and generations. We seek to better understand Beyoncé’s role as a multifaceted cultural symbol from her status as a local, teenaged breakout star from Houston, Texas; to a national Black cultural icon; to a consummate music industry performer, singer, producer, and dancer; and to a global celebrity and pop star. Therefore, we invite articles that explore Beyoncé’s significance to these fan communities in relation to her diverse body of work and modes of identification.
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Posted: July 16th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Punk Scene in France (1976–2016): 40 Years of History
International and interdisciplinary conference
Philharmonie de Paris, 25 and 26 November 2016
Organized by CESR (U. François Rabelais/CNRS/ MCC) and THALIM (CNRS/ENS/U. Paris 3). In association with the Punk Scholars Network.
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Posted: July 13th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on New Zealand Musicological Society Annual Conference
19-20 November 2016
University of Waikato Conservatorium of Music
Hamilton, New Zealand
Contemporary and Future Paths in Music Performance, Composition and Analysis
In implicit dialogue with the ‘search for tradition’ of New Zealand Musicological Society’s annual conference in 2015, this year we invite participants to consider musical and cultural paths of the present and future, in both New Zealand and international contexts. While there remains interest in considering how the past may be used to shape the future, we particularly welcome submissions that address, directly and indirectly, the following themes:
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Posted: July 4th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Music and the Middlebrow
Deadline for submission: 1 December 2016
Conference dates: 22 – 24 June 2017
Conference website: http://www.musicandthemiddlebrow.org
Conference venue: University of Notre Dame, London Global Gateway, 1 Suffolk Street, London, SW1Y 4HG
Keynotes: Joan S. Rubin and Richard Taruskin
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Posted: June 7th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on IV UskoMus symposium: Music and Islam
Cultural Centre Stoa, Helsinki, 10 November 2016
Call for Presentations
UskoMus* Research Network (uskomus.com) will organise its next one-day symposium with the theme ”Music and Islam”, with islamologist Jonas Otterbeck (Lund University) as a guest speaker. The symposium will be followed by a public discussion and a concert celebrating the 25-year career of the Turkish-Finnish band Nefes (nefes.fi), supported by Senegalese Pape Sarr, Rane Diallo, Ismaila Sane and Ousseynou Mbaye, and with an emphasis on Sufi musical practices.
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Posted: June 2nd, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Music – Sound – Radio: Theorizing Music Radio
University of Copenhagen 25-27 May 2017
In a year, the Danish music and radio research project Ramund will close. To mark this, we will organize a seminar focusing mainly on the theoretical aspects of the many different relations between music and radio and the meetings between the two in music-radio. The aim of the seminar will be to publish an anthology of articles.
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Posted: May 13th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Long Beach Indie Film, Media, and Music Conference
Abstract Deadline: May 25, 2016
www.longbeachindie.hollywoodpost.com
The Long Beach Indie International Film, Media, and Music Festival is looking for scholars, musicians, filmmakers, archivists, journalists, and digital media producers to bring their art, intellect, and energy to our 2016 Film, Media, and Music Conference (August 31-September 4, 2016).
Co-sponsored by The California Endowment, KJAZZ Radio, HollywoodPost.com, and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, in past years Oscar, Grammy, Golden Globe, Latin Grammy, Emmy, ALMA, BET, and NAACP Image Award winners and nominees have joined international scholars from some of the world’s top universities as presenters and commentators.
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Posted: May 13th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on NOISE & SILENCE Themed Issue ‘URBAN / RURAL’, Summer 2016
NOISE & SILENCE is an adventurous publication that brings you fresh and informed pieces on issues facing all kinds of music and sound as conceptualised in today’s 21st century society. The project was founded in November 2015 by Oxford University students, and our team has now expanded to include graduates, post-graduates, and early-career researchers across the UK. Our aim is to create a platform that bridges the gap between music lovers and cutting-edge music research.
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Posted: May 9th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Women and Electronic Dance Music Culture
Special edition of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
Guest Editors: Rebekah Farrugia and Magdalena Olszanowski
https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult
This special edition of Dancecult seeks to address the diverse roles of women-identified persons within electronic dance music culture (EDMC). While a great deal has been written about the practices of EDM subcultures and DJ culture in general, the experiences of women has received little attention perpetuating and reinforcing male dominance.
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