Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
23-24 June 2016
http://hiphopstudies.org
Keynote speakers:
Tricia Rose, Brown University
Murray Forman, Northeastern University
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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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:
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:
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.
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?
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.
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.
In association with McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
May 12-14, 2016
The sixth Annual Conference of the Popular Culture Association of Canada will be held in Montreal, Canada from Thursday, May 12 to Saturday, May 14, 2016.
We invite proposals for papers and/or panels on theories of popular culture, research methods in popular culture, the teaching of popular culture, forms and genres of popular culture, and any epiphenomena of popular culture, past or present. We also invite presentation and exhibition proposals from visual and multimedia artists whose work engages with popular culture.
16th September 2016
Leeds Beckett University
Headingley Campus, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
Deadline for submissions: 15th May 2016
‘Dark Leisure and Music’ is an interdisciplinary symposium, hosted by Leeds Beckett University, Centre for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, that aims to address issues related to dark leisure research and encourage dark leisure scholarship in music. Dark leisure may be defined as leisure activity that sits on the fringes of modern society tastes, and activity that rejects the mainstream. Around the turn of the century, Chris Rojek started looking at dark leisure as ‘deviant’ and chose to interpret this type of leisure mostly as detrimental to the individual, in line with criminological approaches. While dark leisure has been investigated by criminologists and psychologists as abnormal behaviour, recent scholarship in this area such as the works of Karl Spracklen, Philip Stone, and D. J. Williams has shown the need to take dark leisure from a different moral perspective than previous research. Moreover, this type of leisure has been scarcely explored in relation to music cultures. Music worlds ‘on the edge’ could be important spaces for dark leisure activity which have Habermasian communicative rationality at heart; and in effect, they could provide essential channels for performing liminal identities.
We invite submissions addressing following issues and others: