Posted: February 23rd, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Music Heritage, People and Place
Home of Metal Symposium and Workshop
13-14th September 2019
Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Birmingham City University
PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
Friday 13th September 2019
This public symposium seeks to bring together researchers, policy makers, heritage and creative workers and musicians.
We welcome contributions from fans and heritage consumers in response to their experience of the Home of Metal exhibitions and events.
Home of Metal (HoM) is a heritage project created and led by the Capsule organisation. Launched in 2011, supported by volunteers, building a crowd-sourced archive and curating a range of popular public events in Birmingham and the Black Country, HoM seeks to highlight and celebrate the value of Heavy Metal music and culture and the role in it of founding artists from the English midlands such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Judas Priest. In 2017 the project went international in its reach, exploring metal culture around the world with a particular focus on Black Sabbath. As a result, in 2019 a range of exhibitions and events will take place in ‘celebration of an artform created in Birmingham that maintains significant global reach and influence.’ The value of this approach is indicated by the Wall Street Journal that has described the genre as the real ‘World Music’, that ‘Heavy Metal has become the unlikely soundtrack of globalisation’ (2016).
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Posted: February 20th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Music, Digitalization, and Democracy
Special Issue of Popular Music and Society
Guest-edited by Johannes Brusila, Martin Cloonan, and Kim Ramstedt
Popular Music and Society invites article proposals for a special issue that examines the connections between music, digitalization, and democracy. The impact of digitalization on the production, dissemination, and consumption of popular music has been immense since the 1980s. Scholars, artists, and policymakers have depicted this “digital turn” as being both a potential enhancement of, and a threat to, cultural life. Business futurists have described increasing financial possibilities created by the new lower cost structures, and visionaries have predicted a greater cultural freedom for larger population groups.
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Posted: February 19th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on “One Nation Under a Groove”: ‘Nation’ as a category in popular music?
29th Annual Conference of the German Society for Popular Music Studies
GfPM, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
1 – 3 November 2019
The German pop star Xavier Naidoo, who appeared in the ZDF television studio for the 2006 World Cup Semifinal costumed in the colors of the German flag; the far-right “identitarian” group Les Brigandes, who ceremonially bury the French colors in the video for their song “L’heure de dire adieu”; the 12-point scoring system of the annual Eurovision Song Contest; U.S. “pop presidents” Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, the “national” and “international” categories of the (now defunct) German ECHO awards; radio quotas in France and Germany; continuing references to the “British Invasion” of the 1960s; even the Global Popular Music Series published by Routledge since 2015, of which almost every volume is titled “Made In (insert country here)”: examples of pop music being saddled with symbols representing or affirming “national identity” are practically endless.
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Posted: February 18th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on 21st Century Global Punk
Following the groundbreaking publication of The Punk Reader: Transmissions from the Local to the Global (now in its second edition through Intellect Books and the Punk Scholars Network) the series editors would like to invite proposals for a second volume in the book series Global Punk, to be published in early 2020. The publication will be part of an exciting collaboration between Intellect Press and the Punk Scholars Network, a partnership that has seen the development of a Punk Scholars Network imprint.
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Posted: February 17th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Sonic Futures: Performing Identity in the ‘Global’ City
(25 April at London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London)
The idea for this one-day conference stems from a series of workshops, Sonic Futures: Identity and Sustainability through Music and Performance, supported by London College of Communication (Teaching and Learning Fund) in collaboration with May Project Gardens (Hip Hop Garden). Adopting a mixed-method approach, this pilot project sought to engage students from LCC in a series of workshops that explored the connections between social issues (e.g. social cohesion, participatory and sustainable practices and active citizenry, to name a few), politics and identity formations at the intersections of class, ethnicity, race, gender and the environment. Primarily, this project aimed to instigate critical thinking and reflections on cultural practices and genre through performance in general and Hip Hop music and culture in particular. Gardening is connected to questions of psycho-physical wellbeing, community building and sustainability in the global city. Overall, Hip Hop Critical Pedagogies provided a productive template that helped combine all these different aspects.Considering the nature and the objectives of these activities, the students who participated in the programme decided to actively work towards an event that could reflect on the critical questions raised during the workshops.
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Posted: February 14th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Road to Independence: the Independent Record Industry in Transition
Call for Chapters
Editor : Victor Sarafian.
Publisher : Presse de l’Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
Proposal submission: 1 July 2019
Full chapters due: 1 December 2019
We are inviting proposals for a book-length essay collection on all aspects of the independent record industry… it’s past, present and future prospects. Technology has changed how music is produced, distributed and consumed. From the advent of the gramophone to the advent of napster, technology has shaped the economic and cultural aspects of the music industry.
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Posted: February 12th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Rhythm in Music since 1900
17-18 November, 2019
University of Colorado Boulder
Submission deadline: 1 June 2019
Keynote (lecture-recital): Pierre Laurent-Aimard, pianist
Invited speakers (and projected topics):
- Kyle Adams on rhythm in hip-hop
- Brian Alegant on pedagogy of rhythm in recent repertories
- Jeanne Bamberger on action and symbolic description
- John Roeder on post-tonal canons
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Posted: February 12th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Street Music conference
UEA Norwich, 14-15 May 2019
This FREE conference, organised by the AHRC Connected Communities programme, seeks to explore an important but neglected aspect of public culture and community construction: street music. It aims to draw together the new knowledge and practice generated by funded research projects across Connected Communities with work across a number of academic disciplines as well as the creative sector. Following Connected Communities established practice, the conference seeks to function as a place for dialogue between academics, independent researchers, musicians, performers, and the arts and cultural policy sectors.
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Posted: February 8th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Sonic Waves: Music and Sound Beyond Borders
Date: 8 May, 2019 | Time: 10am – 5:30pm | Venue: Geoffrey Manton, Manchester Met
Evening Event: Expect Music And Sonic Sounds in one of Manchester’s underground music venues
Keynote Speaker – Dr Linda O Keeffe (Edinburgh School of Art)
We are a group of multidisciplinary researchers exploring the musical beats and sonic streets of Manchester and beyond. For this symposium we want to bring together academics, researchers, practitioners, students and community organisations interested in exploring how music, sound and the sonic can be used to transcend boundaries and move beyond borders. At a time of global uncertainties from climate change and conflict zones, to national and international political upheaval, we question if music and the sonic can narrate and negate these changes and shift our understanding of core and peripheral preoccupations. We encourage submissions along the following themes, covering popular music and sonic engagements:
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Posted: February 6th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Sounds and Poetry of the Streets: Empowering Philippine Expressive Popular Cultures
EPAPC September 2019 National Conference
Organisers: Alona Guevarra, Lara Mendoza, Jose Buenconsejo, all scholars of EPAPC
The research group, Ethnographies of Philippine Auditory Popular Cultures (EPAPC), a grantee of the Commission of Higher Education (CHED)-SALIKHA Creative Grants, announces a call for papers for a special conference on Philippine Expressive Popular Cultures entitled Sounds and Poetry of the Streets: Philippine Expressive Popular Cultures. Selected abstract proposals will be presented in September 2019 at Ateneo de Manila University. Selected papers from the conference will be published in Kritika Kultura, the international refereed journal of language, literary, and cultural studies of the Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University.
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