Posted: June 19th, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Home of Metal: Heavy Metal and Place
1 – 4 September 2011.
University of Wolverhampton and Light House, Wolverhampton
The conference is part of the Home of Metal project, which celebrates Birmingham and the Black Country as the birthplace of Heavy Metal. A series of exhibitions, live events, and film screenings will also take place across the region all exploring various themes of Heavy Metal. Please visit homeofmetalconference.com for further information and to book a place. All delegates must book in advance.
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Posted: June 13th, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Popular Music and Society
Guest editor: Mark Duffett
Popular Music and Society invites article proposals for a new special issue. Fandom is both a personal expression of emotional conviction and a complex, changing, multi-faceted social phenomenon that now encompasses both online and offline activity. The study of fandom is a scholarly niche that exists at the intersection of a wide range of interests and connections. It can be contextualized by wider media research (theory by scholars such as Henry Jenkins and Matt Hills; reception analysis; celebrity studies; ethnography; subcultural theory) and by direct research into popular music culture (ethnomusicology; research on listening; live music audiences; studies of music in everyday life).
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Posted: June 2nd, 2011 | Filed under: IASPM Conferences, News | Comments Off on IASPM postgrad conference programme and registration form
Here are two documents for download that will prove useful for those intending to take part in the IASPM postgrad conference June 9-10, 2011:
IASPM postgrad conference registration form
IASPM postgrad conference programme
Posted: May 17th, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Participations Special Issue: Music and Audiences
Proposals are sought for a special issue of Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies on music and audiences. The theme of this issue will be an examination of the music audience from a range of perspectives, with both theoretical and empirical research welcomed on all aspects of music and reception. The issue would also particularly be interested in proposals that consider music audiences in the context of debates over technology and the Internet, and in articles which focus on issues of genre, different music fan cultures, or the specifics and particularities of music audiences, due to contexts such as sexuality, generation or nationality.
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Posted: May 17th, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Hip Hop Samples Jazz
IMR Seminars: ‘Directions in Musical Research’. Thursday 2 June 2011, 5-6.30pm.
Senate House, Malet Street, London
South Block, Ground Floor, room G35
(Nearest tubes: Euston Square, Russell Square, Goodge Street)
http://music.sas.ac.uk/imr-events/imr-seminars.html#c1213
Tom Perchard (Goldsmiths): ‘Hip Hop Samples Jazz: Dynamics of Cultural Memory and Musical Tradition in the African American 1990s’
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Posted: April 7th, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Sites of Popular Music Heritage – Symposium
Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool
8–9 September 2011
We invite proposals from a broad range of academic disciplines for a 2 day symposium examining sites of popular music heritage: from institutions such as museums, to geographic locations, websites and online archives. Papers are welcomed that explore popular music within narratives of heritage and identity, real and imagined geographies, cultural memory and contested histories. The event will focus on three thematic areas:
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Posted: March 13th, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on Inaugural IASPM postgraduate conference
The inaugural IASPM postgraduate conference at the University of Liverpool invites papers on the stories we tell about popular music. We are interested particularly in illuminating how the intersection of story with study produces a contested space filled with a multitude of views. It is precisely this multitude we find fruitful for investigation.
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Posted: March 8th, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Tango : Creation, Identification, Circulation
Colloque international – Paris, 27-28 October 2011
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
This international conference held in Paris will gather together researchers from diverse disciplinary orientations (historical, sociological, anthropological, musicological) working on the tango and its various aspects (music, dance, poetry). This interdisciplinary conference, organized by the Center for Research in Arts and Language (CRAL, EHESS-CNRS) and affiliated with the ANR GLOBALMUS research program, takes place after UNESCO’s official recognition of the tango as international Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Posted: January 21st, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Shifting Ground: A Symposium on Music and Publishing
11th April 2011
Oxford Brookes University
The Oxford Brookes Popular Music Research Unit, in association with The Royal Musical Association and The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, is holding a one-day symposium exploring links between music and publishing in its broadest sense on April 11th, 2011. This event is intended to bring together academics, journalists and publishers to explore this previously neglected area which offers exciting opportunities to tap into current concerns about the effects of the internet on the dissemination of music, to explore how our experience of music is shaped by publications relating to it, and to explore more broadly the important issue of the relationship between music and commerce, both in a historical context and in the present. The day will feature themed paper sessions, a keynote presentation from the Music Publishing Association, a discussion panel of journalists including Fiona Maddocks and Alyn Shipton focusing on writing about classical, jazz and popular music and will end with a round table discussion featuring Dr Dai Griffiths (Brookes), Dr Lee Marshall (Bristol) and Dr Simon Warner (Leeds) to consider future directions of research in this area.
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Posted: January 17th, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Norient academic online journal
With the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) approaching its 30th birthday, norient wants to contribute to this anniversary by dedicating its first issue of the norient academic online journal to popular music ethnographies – with a twist. While IASPM has been a major force in contributing to the study of popular music using a methodologically broad approach these studies have to a large extent been focused on a North American and British/European popular music legacy.
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