New Jazz Conceptions: History, Theory, Practice

Saturday 31 May
University of Warwick

In recent years jazz studies has attempted to move beyond the canonical view of jazz as a narrative of great performers within an American context, becoming more interdisciplinary and international in its approach. This one-day conference will bring together Warwick, Midlands and National speakers to discuss current research in jazz, share ideas about methodologies for future study, and explore the link between academics and the practice of jazz in the wider community.

Speakers: Tony Whyton, Catherine Tackley, Andrew Hodgetts, Roger Magraw, Katherine Williams, Adrian Litvinoff, Simon Barber and Vic Hobson (National Jazz Archive).

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Stepping Out: Music in the new media landscape

February 26th in the Auditorium, UCA Epsom

The Fall once sang: “I used to believe everything I read, but that’s all changed and now I’m stepping out.” In the 35 years since Mark E Smith uttered that line the way music is communicated has completely changed – from the three weekly ‘inkies’ to the dazzling array of digital sites we have today. This reflects how much the music industry too has been reconfigured, in the wake of the download revolution.

This Industry Day/conference marks the rapidly shifting landscape for music and media, with panels on the music industry and music writing across platforms.

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UK Popular Music Pedagogy Workshop

The Higher Education Academy and IASPM (UK and Ireland branch) are sponsoring a one day workshop on Popular Music Pedagogy. The workshop takes place at the University of Edinburgh on Friday 24 January 2014. Registration is free but space is limited so book now to avoid disappointment.

Follow the link to see the programme for the day and registration details.

Launch of Music Research Consortium UK (MRC-UK)

Leaders of professional organisations promoting research in music will gather at the Institute of Musical Research, Senate House, London on Friday 25 October, 2013 at 5pm, for the official launch of the Music Research Consortium UK (MRC-UK). Invited guests include scholars, industry professionals and policy makers from across the UK.

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Check out the blog for the IASPM UK/Ireland Postgraduate Conference

The IASPM UK/Ireland Postgraduate Conference entitled ‘The Cultural Value of Popular Music’ was held at The University of Glasgow on the 5th – 6th September, 2013. A blog has been created documenting the event and featuring abstracts from the papers that were given. You can find it here: http://iaspmpg.blogspot.co.uk.

David Sanjek Archive

Dear Family & Friends,

A campus-wide memorial service for Professor David Sanjek will be held on Thursday, February 23 from 11 am to 2 pm at the University of Salford in Salford, England.

David passed away on November 29, 2011 in New York while in route to the annual meeting of the Historic Recording Preservation Board at the US Library of Congress, a board on which he had served for the past ten years.

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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

Renew, Reuse, Recycle: From Quotation to Remediation in Art and Popular Music

Saturday 19 March 2011
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge

A number of prominent scholars have recently shown a renewed interest in the extraordinary degree and variety of intertextuality and recombination characteristic of contemporary popular musics, particularly in relation to the “remediative” potential of digitally-enabled techniques such as sampling and mash-up. The interest has been both in analysing these techniques as practices, and in assessing their aesthetic potential and effects. But musical borrowings have long been a concern for scholars of hip hop, rap and jazz – in the form of versioning – and of Western art music – in the form of quotation and allusion. Although this conference focusses on late twentieth-century and contemporary popular musics as the key site of the re-emergence of a concern with these processes, consideration of this broader historical context enables us to raise new questions: What are the historical continuities in these practices of recycling musical materials? To what extent have evolving technologies – from notated score, to electronic recording, to digital music media – reshaped or extended these aesthetic practices? How do our developing theoretical frameworks and evolving understandings of different musical epochs and genres affect our conception of and reactions to musical borrowings?

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Oxford Brookes University, Music Department: MA Open Day

4 March 2011, 1.00-4.30pm
Willow Building (room 06), Headington Hill Campus, Oxford Brookes University, OX3 0BT

The MA in Music at Oxford Brookes offers four distinctive and exciting pathways:

• Music and Popular Culture
• Music on Stage and on Screen
• Contemporary Practice in Composition
• Music in 19th-Century Culture

Come to our open day to find out more about our course and about how studying for an MA in Music can enhance your career prospects. It is also an opportunity to talk to teaching staff and former students and to explore our campus and facilities.

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New MA (Popular Music Research) at Goldsmiths

The MA (Popular Music Research) engages with scholarly debates and public controversies around popular music, while examining and developing both traditional and innovative ways of researching popular music. It provides a grounding in the historical development of popular music research as a subfield of musicology, and encourages those taking the degree to think critically about musical texts, artefacts and ecologies; audiences, reception and questions of interpretation; creativity, industries and production; and to interrogate these through repertoires that are broad in historical range and geographical scope.

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