Posted: June 19th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on Popular x Traditional
11-13 January 2019, RUANG Think City, Kuala Lumpur
Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2018
The IASPM-SEA Conference (IASPM-SEA 2019), hosted by RUANG Think City, will take place on Friday 11th to Sunday 13th January 2019 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This international conference will feature research and performances about the interaction, convergence and contestation of popular music with traditional music in Southeast Asia. We also welcome proposals of / from / on any region that relate to the conference theme or subthemes.
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Posted: May 16th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on Turns and Revolutions in Popular Music Studies
XX Biennial IASPM Conference
School of Music, The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia, 24–28 June 2019
As certain songsters and songstresses have noted, seasons turn, turn, turn, even if you are talking about a revolution. While global warming alters seasonal cycles with the aid of neoliberal and (pseudo)socialist forms of capitalism, and waves of societal turmoil follow each other with varying degrees of authoritarianism in different parts of the world, popular music studies remains committed to critical enquiry of music of the masses, the everyday, a variety of subcultures, the megastars, all with their revolutionary potential. Faced with the increasing worldwide austerity in the humanities and social sciences, caused by short-sighted research funding policies that purportedly aim at revolutionary technological and business innovations, popular music studies also struggles with its future directions. Whither popular music studies and where to turn?
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Posted: February 15th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on “Playing Along”: Music, Participation, and Everyday Life
IASPM-ANZ 2018 Conference December 3-5, 2018
Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec)
Hamilton, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Music exists in all aspects of our lives. It provides us with company; it is a part of rituals and celebrations; it creates dialogues with visual images through films and games; indeed, other media turn to music to stimulate sensations, affects, even tastes and smells. People participate in music, they play along, they accompany, they are accompanied, and thereby they may gain skills, knowledge, pleasure, companionship and so on. Music provides the means for performing and creating identities, which could relate to gender, culture or other identifiers. And through playing along, when we respond to rhythms and sounds with gestures, we might say we are also creating the music itself.
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Posted: November 1st, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on Crosstown Traffic: Popular Music Theory and Practice
University of Huddersfield, UK
3rd-5th September 2018
This is a call for papers for a joint conference arranged by four organisations:
- International Association for the Study of Popular Music UK & Ireland Branch (IASPM UK&I)
- Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production (ASARP)
- Dancecult: Electronic Dance Music Culture Research Network
- International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS)
Hosted by the University of Huddersfield, this event will combine the IASPM UK&I Biennial Conference, with the 13th Art of Record Production Conference (ARP), a conference of ISMMS, and feature the additional participation of Dancecult. The theme of the conference is Crosstown Traffic: Popular Music Studies Theory and Practice.
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Posted: October 2nd, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on Gathering Diversities, Sounding Justice
IASPM-Canada Annual Conference
University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
May 27-29, 2018
Submission deadline: November 30, 2017
The 2018 IASPM-CA annual conference will take place at the University of Regina from May 27-29 in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which has announced “Gathering Diversities” as its theme (the Congress theme is described at https://www.uregina.ca/congress2018/theme.html). In conversation with this broader theme, IASPM-CA encourages participants to explore questions concerning popular music, its aims and claims regarding diversity, and its impact in promoting equity in a wide range of contexts and scenes. Diversity has long been a stated goal for institutions, organizations, and communities of all types, yet diversity remains a complex and contested issue, particularly in the field of popular music. To what extent does popular music productively model and promote diversity, and to what extent does diversity extend beyond surface appearances to institutional structures? To what extent is diversity in itself a laudable goal if not accompanied by equity and social justice? How do popular music and popular music studies either promote or impede diversity, equity, and social justice?
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Posted: July 17th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on 2017 IASPM Postgraduate Student Conference
Dear colleagues,
I’m delighted to announce the call for papers for the 2017 IASPM UK&I Postgraduate Students’ Conference on the theme ‘Negotiating Popular Music’. This two-day conference takes as its starting point the position that encounters with popular music involve a dialogue between varied forces and agencies. It offers an opportunity for research students to come together to interrogate these myriad interactions with popular music as analysts, makers, tastemakers, and so on.
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Posted: March 7th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on Mixing Pop and Politics: Subversion, Resistance and Reconciliation in Popular Music
IASPM-ANZ 2017 Conference
December 4-6, 2017
Massey University, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Forty years ago, the story goes, punk broke. Not for the first time, and not the last. History provides us with ample examples of the power of popular music to speak to, through, and against various political moments. The contemporary situation also offers countless opportunities to explore how popular music revisits, reconstitutes, rewrites and reconciles itself to this past. At the same time, it also points to new directions informed by the complicated position popular music occupies in relation to the shifting paradigms of power in which we currently find ourselves. This IASPM-ANZ conference aims to explore the complex politics of resistance, subversion, containment and reconciliation from now and then, as well as points in-between.
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Posted: May 7th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on And beyond… Popular Music and Transgression(s)
2nd IASPM-D-A-CH-Conference
20-23.10.2016 – Karl-Franzens-University of Graz
Organized in cooperation with the Institute of Musicology at the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz/A the second IASPM-DACH conference will take place from October 20th to 23rd 2016 – at the same time as the 11th edition of the elevate Festival, which connects a critical-political discourse and advanced electronic music, literature and art. That also roughly outlines our conference topic: Popular Music and Transgression(s). Seemingly independent from specific cultural and historical contexts, moments of transgression seem to be a characteristic feature of popular music styles, their practices, media and theories.
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Posted: April 25th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on IASPM UK & Ireland Biennial Conference – Brighton, UK
The Clarendon Centre, Brighton
8-10 September 2016
UPDATE: You can now view the IASPM Conference Schedule.
The University of Sussex and the British and Irish Modern Music Institute (Brighton) are hosting the 2016 conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, UK & Ireland branch. The theme of the conference is ‘Popular Music: Creativity, Practice and Praxis’.
Keynote: Professor Chris Rojek City University London
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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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