Posted: April 6th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on XIV SIBE Conference: Itineraries, Places and Contexts
20th – 22nd October 2016, Madrid
University Complutense of Madrid is pleased to announce the fourteenth Conference of the Iberian Society for Ethnomusicology Studies (SIBE), which will be held from the 20th to the 22nd of October in Madrid, Spain. Researchers are welcome to present abstracts, proposals, and posters to be part of this exciting conference that will focus around the concepts of place, itineraries and cultural contexts.
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Posted: March 17th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Raymond Williams, Popular Music and Subculture
A day conference organised by The Subcultures Network and the Performance and Contemporary Arts Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University, Friday 10th June 2016, Friends’ Meeting House, Mount St, Manchester 9am – 5pm.
Recently, there has been a significant revival of interest in the diverse legacy of Raymond Williams. So far, however, the connections between Williams and the study of subcultures, popular music and social change have been little explored. How have Williams’s early work, his later cultural materialist approach, and the work of those influenced by him, shaped the field? And how might this tradition be developed to address some of the most pressing issues and problems in contemporary popular musical and subcultural studies?
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Posted: March 13th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Fourth Performance Studies Network International Conference
14-17 July 2016
Bath Spa University
Newton Park, Bath, UK, BA2 9BN
To register, please use the online sales system here.
Early bird rates apply until 1 April 2016.
The aim of the conference is to debate theories, methodologies and practices of performance, and to engage with increasingly diverse, interdisciplinary developments in the field in order to encourage a more global perspective on performance studies.
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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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