Posted: February 5th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on KISMIF Conference 2016
We are pleased to announce the third KISMIF International Conference “Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (KISMIF) DIY Cultures, Spaces and Places” which will take place in Porto, Portugal, between 18th July and 21st July 2016.
The submission of abstracts for this conference is open to academic researchers working in all areas of sociology, anthropology, history, cultural economics, geography, urban planning, media and cultural studies and cognate disciplines, such as design, illustration, popular music, cinema, visual and performing arts.
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Posted: February 4th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Future Sounds: Meaning and the Future of Popular Music
Coordinated by The School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Film, Media and Performance
University of Central Lancashire: 16/17 May 2016
Changes to the landscape of how music is consumed, produced and maintains its social and cultural significance are subjects that present both fascination and challenge for scholars and practitioners alike. Where on the one hand predictive speculations about future trends in music are virtually impossible to foretell, creative engagement with music practitioners and industry have the potential to give critical voice to what may be expected, based on the current state of affairs in popular music.
Our aim is to bring some of these voices together for a dynamic discussion on the future of popular music from a range of disciplines in music studies, including musicology, composition, cultural theory, philosophy, media studies, sociology business and marketing studies amongst others.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on ‘It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At’: International Hip Hop Studies Conference
Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
23-24 June 2016
http://hiphopstudies.org
Keynote speakers:
Tricia Rose, Brown University
Murray Forman, Northeastern University
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Posted: January 21st, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on MAGES 2016
1st International Workshop on Music Analysis and Generation Systems.
The 1st International Workshop on the Role of Music Analysis in the Evaluation of Music Generation Systems (MAGES) will be held June 27, 2016 in Paris, France, at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), in conjunction with the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2016.
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Posted: January 19th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Continental Drift: 50 Years of Jazz from Europe
16th and 17th of July, 2016
A two-day conference at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, in association with the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.
The organisers seek proposals for papers (to be delivered as a 20×20” slide-based presentation) based on two central themes that will function as stimulus for panel discussions:
- Key factors in the development of jazz in Europe.
- Moving forward – the future of jazz in Europe.
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Posted: January 19th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Scattered Musics : ethnic, racial, gender and regional reconfigurations through music performances
We are interested in papers that are engaged with and sensitive to the nuances of struggles over identities and representations through musical expression. In particular we seek manuscripts that give account of some of the ways in which musicians, fans, promoters, and others use music and other media (including social media), to negotiate, transcend, or create solidarities with different normativities and nationalisms. The following questions guide us:
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Posted: January 11th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on 40 Years of Mute Records
Call for Chapters: ‘40 Years of Mute Records: through Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, New Order and more’
Editors
Dr Zuleika Beaven, Marcus O’Dair, Dr Richard Osborne
Dept of Performing Arts, Middlesex University London
Call for Chapters
Proposal Submission: 4 March 2016
Full Chapters Due: 30 September 2016
Introduction
As the influential independent record label Mute approaches the milestone of its 40th anniversary, this edited academic book will explore Mute’s wide-ranging impact in the music industries. Drawing from disciplines such as popular music studies, fan studies, semiotics, creative industries management, identity studies and musicology, each chapter will take a distinctive artist-led approach.
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Posted: January 4th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The 11th Art of Record Production Conference: The Spaces in Between
December 2-4, 2016
Hosted by the Music and Sound Knowledge group (MaSK), Aalborg University, Denmark
Our conference committee is pleased to invite proposals for papers dealing with the following broad themes:
A: Between music production and sound design
How is record production related to producing sound for film, television, radio, computer games and other media? How can scholars and practitioners within these diverse fields benefit from each other? What are the differences between producing sound for linear and interactive media? How can theoretical models be used to elucidate these connections and differences?
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Posted: December 12th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Fringes, outsides and undergrounds: The aesthetics and politics of unpopular music
One-day conference to be held at Goldsmiths on 7 May 2016
Musical forms such as noise, extreme metal, performance art, experimental techno, free improv and more take inspiration from both popular and art traditions without being fully identifiable with either.
These forms exist either on the fringes of, or outside, these commercial and cultural mainstreams, both in conventional musical centres such as London and Berlin and further afield, in South America, Japan and China.
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Posted: December 8th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on EUPOP 2016
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, July 20th – 22nd, 2016
Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed for the fifth annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), to be held at the Université Paris Ouest in Nanterre, just outside Paris (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures), July 20th – 22nd, 2016.
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