Posted: November 13th, 2024 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Revisiting resistance in mainstream music
Call for Paper for the 56th Conference of the French Association of American Studies
General theme of the conference: “Resistance”
Title of the popular music panel: “Revisiting resistance in mainstream music”
The conference will be held at Université de Picardie Jules Verne, on May 20-23 2025.
From the 1970s onwards, under the impetus of the subcultural studies developed by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, many forms of popular music (rock, punk, rap, reggae, afrobeat, etc.) were seen as symbolic expressions of resistance to authority in all its forms, from political power to the capitalist system, via the military, school, the family, patriarchy, and so on. For George Melly, Dick Hebdige, Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson and many others, by hijacking the products of the culture industry, music lovers were enacting “rituals of resistance” through which they affirmed their individuality and autonomy.
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Posted: November 5th, 2024 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Digital Futures for Chinese Music
28th CHIME International Conference, 4–8 July 2025
CHIME: Worldwide Platform for Chinese Music (https://www.chimemusic.net)
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
In this conference we focus on the various ways new media (digital media especially) provide spaces for preserving, creating, playing, sharing, teaching, or discussing music, and the ways these spaces are impacting what musicians, culture bearers, and others do in the musical part of their lives. Prospective participants are encouraged to submit proposals that resonate with this theme. However, presentations of any new research in the broad area of Chinese music studies are also welcome, whether these engage with the theme or not.
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Posted: November 3rd, 2024 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Timbre and Orchestration in Popular Song
June 5–7, 2025, McGill University, Montreal QC, Canada
Timbre and orchestration are essential aspects of musical experience in any culture or style. They enable us to effortlessly identify different genres of music and are particularly important in popular musics. This centrality is reflected in Timbre and Orchestration in Popular Song (TOPS), a three-day conference hosted by McGill University’s Schulich School of Music and the ACTOR (Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration) Partnership. The conference convenes scholars, producers, performers, and audiences of popular music for keynote lectures, workshops, posters, and papers, united under the theme of how timbre and orchestration give rise to critical and analytical accounts of genre, identity, performance, production, and perception.
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Posted: November 3rd, 2024 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Song, Stage and Screen 2025
Meet Us in the Middle
June 25-28, 2025
Hosted by the College of Communication at DePaul University
Song, Stage and Screen 2025 will convene in Chicago, Illinois, at DePaul University’s College of Communication from June 25-28, 2025. Sometimes referred to as the “Second City” or “Heart of America,” Chicago is a vital (and often unsung) incubator for musical theater, dance, and opera productions.
The location of this year’s conference invites us to contemplate the notion of “the middle,” and to suggest ways that “middles” inform the creation, circulation, consumption and study of musical theater. In recent years, scholars in musical theater studies and adjacent fields have demonstrated that “middlegrounds” can be a robust site for analysis. Stacy Wolf and Jake Johnson have directed our attention to the existence and importance of musical theater in the “middle” of the United States, while Derek Miller has encouraged study of “average” commercial productions and theater careers that are neither especially glorious nor terrible, but that ultimately drive the industry. Colleen Rua has addressed how musicals like West Side Story and In the Heights portray quotidian aspects of Latinx life, while Koritha Mitchell has argued that low or fair-to-middling standards enable and elevate white mediocrity.
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Posted: November 3rd, 2024 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Music and Mediation
Conference at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide
9-10 June 2025
Keynote speaker: Naomi Sunderland, Director, Creative Arts Research Institute, Griffith University
Deadline for abstracts: Monday 16 December 2024
Mediation, in all its senses, from transmission to conflict resolution, is particularly relevant in times of technological innovation, sustainability challenges, forced displacement and struggles for equality or survival. This conference, generously supported by the Musicological Society of Australia (MSA), is concerned with the ways music and the study of music may contribute to the many theories and practices around mediation.
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Posted: October 26th, 2024 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Creativity, Subjectivity, Relocation
15-16 April 2025 | University of Aberdeen
Context
This event engages with the dynamics of ‘culture’ and the (re)formation of identities through the creative practices of artists moving between places or are born in multicultural households. Driven by Amin Hashemi’s current Leverhulme Early Career fellowship, Integration and the Making of Subjectivity via Musical Creativity that explores such dynamics among musicians with an Iranian background working and living inside the UK, this symposium invites scholars from across the UK who had worked on migration, integration, cultural exchange and musical creativity to present ideas, engage in debates and open discussions. Creativity, Subjectivity, Relocation addresses some contentious questions of socio-cultural homogeneity, assimilation and isolation in Britain that often subliminally or implicitly communicate a predetermined sense of incompatibility of cultural backgrounds or the impossibility of assimilation between the East and the West. This event takes music making amongst migrants as a dynamic, rather than static, practice. The discussions could address any other aspects of migration – including but not limited to integration, identity, or cultural communication – while focusing on the confluence of the processes of creativity and subjectivity with equal attention to the social and the individual.
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Posted: October 17th, 2024 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Journal of Music Production Research (Inaugural Edition)
The Journal of Music Production Research (JMPR) is delighted to announce its call for papers for the inaugural edition. JMPR is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to defining, exploring, analysing, and advancing scholarly discourse and practice in the multifaceted field of music production. With a primary focus on the artistic, technical, and innovative practices that shape the discipline, JMPR serves as a leading forum for rigorous research and critical inquiry at the intersection of technology, creativity, and industry practice.
We welcome submissions from scholars, practitioners, and industry professionals who contribute to the growing body of knowledge in music production. Research from all relevant methodologies and disciplines is encouraged, particularly on interdisciplinary approaches bridging the gap between music production’s scientific and artistic aspects.
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Posted: October 17th, 2024 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Joint SMI and ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference 2025
Trinity College Dublin
16–17 January 2025
Deadline: Friday 8 November 2024
Email: [email protected]
The Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI) and the Irish National Committee of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD-IE) are pleased to announce their annual joint postgraduate conference will take place at Trinity College Dublin on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 January 2025.
Postgraduate students working in all areas of musical research are warmly invited to submit proposals for 20-minute papers or 30-minute lecture recitals of research conducted under supervision at a third-level institution. Poster presentations are also welcome. Areas of research include but are not limited to, historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory and analysis, composition, music technology, music pedagogy, popular music studies, performance studies, musical practice as research, psychology of music, and music and gender. Attendees should convey research findings and professional conclusions honestly and in alignment with established research integrity principles, including those relating specifically to the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Posted: October 3rd, 2024 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Research Convention for the Night Time Economy Summit 2025
Convened by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA)
From Wednesday 5th to Thursday 6th February the NTIA, in conjunction with other sector stakeholders, will be convening the fourth major Night Time Economy summit at Hockley Social Club, Birmingham. The event will discuss the important role that the Night Time Economy plays in economic and cultural recovery both across the UK and internationally. It will consider challenges, opportunities, and what the future holds for the sector.
As part of the Summit, we will be holding a research convention. This presents an opportunity for scholars to share research and to connect with industry.
Context
The Night Time Economy (NTE) is comprised of a diverse range of businesses that operate between 6pm and 6am. Consumer spend in the UK Night-time Economy was £136.5bn in 2022, up from £95.7bn in 2021, showing a strong post-Covid desire to socialise. However, adjusted for inflation, there has been no real growth in turnover over the last three years, despite the significant rise from £121.3bn in 2019. Rather, due to the pandemic and inflation, the UK NTE lost approximately £95bn, impacting investments in customer experiences, marketing, programming and sector resilience (NTIA 2024).
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Posted: October 2nd, 2024 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on 2025 PopCon/IASPM-US Joint Conference
March 13-16, 2025
University of Southern California
BABY, IT’S A LOOK
Pop Music, Fashion, and Style at the Edge
Proposals Due: Friday, November 15th, 2024
There’s an enduring relationship between popular music, style, and fashion. As an example, in the past five years, the cowboy hat has once again gone viral, after figures like Gene Autry and Herb Jeffries helped make it a country music staple many decades ago. Iconic album covers, visual albums, music videos, and platform visualizers use looks to tell the story of the music, while fashion runways from Paris to Rio de Janeiro to Johannesburg embrace pop music to stage the fantasy of a designer’s vision. Earlier connections between pop music, fashion, and style range from the likes of Josephine Baker and her banana skirt to Billie Holiday’s gardenia hair pin, to the Beatles’ mop-top haircuts, to the 70s glitter and glam of groups like Queen and Labelle, to the activist traditional attire and make up of Nigeria’s Fela Kuti and Lagos 70. Pop musicians design fashion and streetwear collections, and pop music genres produce all kinds of subcultural media and other alternative means of expression through street style and beyond.
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