Posted: March 7th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Epistrophy, a jazz journal – no 2: Playing (at) jazz
Coordinated by: Basile Bayoux, Joana Desplat-Roger, Thomas Horeau, Édouard Hubert, Raphaëlle Tchamitchian
We “play music”: the English language uses this notion to characterize musical practice. Pure chance? As Johan Huizinga underlines it in Homo ludens, the semantic concordance of play and music is no English exception: German uses spielen, French uses jouer (whereas other romance languages don’t: Italian uses suonare, Spanish, tocar), and this reference can also be found in Arabic, as well as a few Slavonic languages. According to Huizinga, this fact appears as the “deep-rooted psychological reason for so remarkable a symbol of the affinity between play and music”[1]. We could add a more specific, historical concordance between jazz and play: born in the 20th century, jazz is contemporary of a particular attention given to play within art worlds.[2]
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Posted: March 1st, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on Popular Music Studies Today: 19th Biennial IASPM Conference
26 June – 30 June 2017
University of Kassel
Germany
Popular Music Studies are today a key field of enquiry. Exploring the parameters of research on popular music in contemporary times lies at the centre of the 19th Biennial IASPM Conference. The Executive Committee therefore invites researchers and practitioners to submit proposals for presentations which engage with a variety of methodologies and perspectives on popular music studies, whether from an academic, professional, practice-based or educational angle. We encourage proposals dealing with one of the following streams:
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Posted: February 29th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on 2016 IASPM-ANZ Conference: Isolated Musics, Connected Musics
7-9 December 2016, CQUniversity Mackay
http://www.iaspmanz16.com
Music exists within space as social practice. In the past, music traditions have been embedded within geographical place; however increasingly we regard distance and space differently than in the past. How do popular musics interact with space? What does the concept of distance or nearness mean in globally connected or disconnected music cultures? What does the advent of technology for ameliorating distance mean for the concept of distance, eg. urban/country, near/far, amateur/professional.
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Posted: February 25th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Making Time in Music: an international conference
12–13 September 2016
Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
The capacity to be in time together lies at the heart of all music-making and is one of the most profound of human capabilities; being in time together is implicated in social bonding, altered states, and foundational pleasures associated with music. The ways in which we play in time together, also mark out difference—between genres and between instruments (and instrumentalists), between studio and live performance, between the virtuoso and the beginner.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Third Annual Westminster-Goldsmiths Symposium for Student Research in Popular Music
Friday 20 May 2016, 9am-6pm
Chiltern Suite, University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/visit-us/directions/marylebone
Presented by the University of Westminster Centre for Commercial Music and Goldsmiths Popular Music Research Unit
This symposium will bring together student researchers in popular music – broadly construed – from across Britain. It is an opportunity for students to present their developing research to friendly, interested and expert listeners, and to meet and network with future colleagues.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Musedelica: First symposium on psychedelic music
The first Musedelica symposium will be held June 14-15th, 2016 at the Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. The symposium will bring together students, early career researchers, independent researchers and music producers from the field of psychedelic music and related areas.
The symposium focusses on psychedelic music, especially (but not limited to) electronic dance music and other fields related to psychedelic drugs and music. Proposals are welcome from researchers in any field; see the list of topics below for more details.
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Posted: February 17th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Researching Music: Interviewing, Ethnography, and Oral History
Monday 6 June 2016
Senate House, University of London
The Institute of Musical Research, the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, and the UK & Ireland branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music invite proposals from researchers interested in participating in a full-day seminar at Senate House, University of London, on Monday 6 June. The seminar will explore recent thinking about methods for researching music, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with a particular focus on interviewing, ethnography, oral history, and the relationship between them. Speakers will include Ruth Finnegan, Sara Cohen, Rachel Beckles Willson, Lucy Durán, Simone Krueger, Sue Onslow, and Jaime Jones.
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Posted: February 6th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Metal in Strange Places: Aural, Tactile, Emotional, Visual
October 20-October 22, 2016
University of Dayton
Dayton, Ohio, USA
In recent years Metal Studies conferences have examined the business of metal, metal’s cultural impact, metal and communal experience, and popular culture and metal, just to name a few. As Metal Studies expands, more and more themes and topics need to be researched by scholars around the world.
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Posted: February 5th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The 5th Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference 2016
Melbourne (Australia)
Date: 11-12 December 2016, (Sunday-Monday)
Venue: Monash Asia Institute (MAI), Monash University, Caulfield Campus
900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, Victoria 3145, Australia (Melway Ref: 68 F1)
* For information on travelling to Caulfield campus (how to get to, parking and map), please visit Monash University Caulfield campus and Google Maps. Getting There will be helpful to travel Melbourne.
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Posted: February 5th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Music, ageing, technology
Symposium on music research, Joensuu, Finland, 11–13 May 2016
The University of Eastern Finland, the Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology and the project Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT) bring together researchers from music studies and various other disciplines in order to discuss music in relation to ageing and technology. The symposium “Music, ageing, technology symposium” will be held in the Joensuu campus of the University of Eastern Finland, 11-13 May 2016.
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