Posted: March 18th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Musical Exile, Migration and Cultural Mobility
Melba Hall, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Friday 15 August 2025
Proposal deadline: 4 April 2025
When musicians become migrants, they often exert a profound influence on their new environment: transforming concert life, creating or reshaping music institutions, and contributing to music education. This symposium considers the significance of migration for music-making, examining themes such as identity and belonging; the transfer of repertoire and skills; stylistic hybridity and multicultural music-making; and music’s relationship to nationalism, xenophobia and protectionism.
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Posted: March 18th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Hands on Sonic Skills
Practical experiential approaches to sound, music, and media in musicological education
Conference on December 11 & 12, 2025
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Department of Musicology
Keynotes: Andreas Fickers and Joanna Szczepańska-Antosik
Media and technologies for synthesis, recording, processing, and distribution of sound have become important subjects of music research. Examples include the history of sound recording (Sterne 2003, Katz 2010, Horning 2013, Bennett 2019), the significance of technical devices in music scenes (Theberge 1997, Butler 2014, Herbst/Menze 2021), or musical analysis oriented toward sound and music production processes (Zagorsky-Thomas 2016, Hepworth-Sawyer et al. 2019).
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Posted: March 4th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Special Issue of Rock Music Studies
Rock in South America: Argentina, Chile, and Peru
Guest Editors:
César Albornoz, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile.
Lisa Di Cione, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche; Instituto Nacional de Musicología “Carlos Vega”, Argentina.
Sergio Pisfil, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Perú.
Contact: [email protected]
Rock Music Studies invites article proposals for a special issue exploring the unique characteristics of rock music written, produced, and performed in South America, with a particular focus on music created in Argentina, Chile, and Peru from the second half of the 20th century to the present.
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Posted: March 1st, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference
Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference
23-24 October 2025
School of Education
Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo
Viana do Castelo, Portugal
The Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference is organized by the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo and by the Research Institute for Design Media and Culture (ID+) in cooperation with the Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave.
About the event
The Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference aims to address the role of memory in contemporary creation by discussing:
– the process of creation and its relationship to memory work;
– memory as a territory under construction (bodies, texts, sounds, images, narratives) through artistic research; and
– the politics of memory in today’s societies and new forms of creation.
The objective of the conference is twofold: firstly, to convene a diverse range of interdisciplinary perspectives; and secondly, to bring together artists whose creative approaches bring their research practice closer to memory.
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Posted: March 1st, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Ethnomusicology Ireland
Ethnomusicology Ireland is the open-access, online, and peer-reviewed journal of ICTMD Ireland. We are now accepting contributions for the planned publication of EI 11 in 2026. For this issue, EI welcomes new research on the topic of broadcasting music and dance (contributions addressing any form of traditional or new media broadcasting are encouraged). We are particularly interested in contributions that address one or more of the following themes:
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Posted: February 25th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Progressive Rock Today: Music, People, Politics
The 7th Biennial International Conference of the Progect Network for the Study of Progressive Rock
May 27-29 2026
Université de Strasbourg (FRANCE)
What is progressive rock today, and what is its relationship to its half-century-plus-long history? What are the connections between music, audiences, and cultural industries in the world of progressive rock? Knowing that it is impossible to answer these questions with simple formulas or definitions, we look forward to welcoming at the University of Strasbourg researchers from a variety of disciplines – musicology, social sciences, political science, economics, cultural studies, philology and so on – who can provide new perspectives to illustrate the countless articulations of the “prog phenomenon.”
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Posted: February 24th, 2025 | Filed under: News | Comments Off on 2025 IASPM Book Prize
A public award will be given by IASPM for outstanding first books by a single author on popular music, in the categories of English and any other language, at the 2025 IASPM Conference in Paris, from July 7-11, 2025.
Nominations are invited from IASPM members for books they consider to be possible contenders for the award. Authors nominated should preferably already be members of IASPM or must become members of IASPM after being nominated to be eligible. Send your nominations to both of the Chairs of the Book Prize Jury, Daniel Fredriksson ([email protected]) and Beatriz Goubert ([email protected]), by March 31st at the latest.
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Posted: February 24th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Popular Music and/as Resistance
AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting – Minneapolis, MN – 6-9 November 2025
Application Deadline: 7 March 2025
The relationship between popular music and politics is louder than ever. At the 2025 Super Bowl halftime performance, an ostensibly politically neutral platform, Kendrick Lamar offered a socio-economic critique of racial inequity in the United States when his all-Black dancers performed in the shape of the American flag. Similarly, queer pop icon Chappell Roan’s 2025 Grammy acceptance speech took aim at the industry’s failure to offer artists a living wage and pledged $25,000 towards healthcare for developing musicians—a donation matched by Noah Kahan and Charli XCX. Northern Ireland rap group Kneecap also received several accolades at the 2025 BAFTAs despite consistent (and scathing) lyrical indictments of British imperialism and their role in the recent construction of a “Free Palestine” mural in West Belfast. As evidenced by the swell of online discourse in the aftermath of these statements, artists and other cultural intermediaries are never exempt from criticism regarding the limitations of their efforts to combine performance and politics. Still, these same musicians—and by extension, their audiences—are always operating within the constraints of a profit-driven and politics-averse music industry.
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Posted: February 24th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Queer Survival, Organizing, and Worldmaking
Inaugural Summer School of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group
22nd – 25th July 2025, Humboldt University, Berlin
School’s out for summer, or is it? The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group is excited to announce its inaugural Summer School, to be held from 22nd to 25th July at Humboldt University, Berlin in collaboration with the Emmy Noether research group “Sound System Epistemologies: Knowledge engendered through practice”.
This event will celebrate the rich histories of queer organizing and mutual aid, with a focus on the politics of LGBTQ+ worldmaking. Thinking through the politics of place, we seek to amplify Central and Eastern European queer sonic histories in one of the globe’s so-called “gay havens,” attuning to Berlin’s famously queer electronic dance music and nightlife, though submissions are welcome on any queerly musical encounters.
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Posted: February 24th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Rock Music, Belonging and Citizenship in the English-speaking world (1950s-2020s)
In the first chapter of the Resistance through Rituals volume (1975), Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke and Brian Roberts essentially approach rock music and its associated “subcultures” in neo-Marxist terms as a mode of cultural resistance of the working class against capitalist hegemony. They view the various rock “subcultures” of their time – the Teddy Boys, the Mods, the Rastas- as vanguards of a renewed class consciousness, heralding emerging forms of political mobilisation that could ultimately pave the way to revolution. While this perspective was of course proved wrong, and in fact was heavily criticized from the start, including by members of Hall et als.’s own Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies group (CCCS), it has remained influential, if only because it construed the academic study of rock music through a socio-political lens, attributing as it did a central place to the question of belonging and citizenship in XXth century liberal democracies.
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