Posted: January 10th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Participatory Approaches to Music & Democracy
The conference isaScience 2018 is part of isa, the International Summer Academy of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria.
https://www.mdw.ac.at/isa/isascience
Conference date: 10–14 August 2018
Conference venue: Hotel Marienhof, Reichenau an der Rax, Austria
Keynote: David Hesmondhalgh, Professor for Media, Music and Culture, University of Leeds, UK
Organisers: Dagmar Abfalter, Marko Kölbl, Rosa Reitsamer, Fritz Trümpi
Over the last few decades, a rich body of literature has explored how individuals and groups use music as a resource to achieve social, cultural and political participation and to bring about social change in society.
Studies have also investigated music’s use by political groups and parties in the past and present that impose
authoritarian, neoliberal or even fascist political ideas. Finally, research is concerned with the promise and
myth of democratization through technology in regard to music production, distribution and reception/appropriation.
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Posted: January 9th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on El oído pensante
Volume 6 (No. 2, 2018)
The aim of this biannual peer-reviewed online journal of free access is to promote debate on theoretical, methodological and epistemological dilemmas faced by different kind of music research. Since the intention of the journal is to promote critical thought aimed to dismantle usual concepts and to open new approaches, papers restricted to analyzing particular cases will not be accepted. However, it is expected that authors bring some cases into the text in order to support their main ideas. Submission guidelines in:
http://ppct.caicyt.gov.ar/index.php/oidopensante/about/submissions#authorGuidelines.
Papers in Spanish, Portuguese and English will be accepted by March 31, 2018.
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Posted: January 4th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on 49th Annual Conference of IASA
1-4 October 2018, at the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
Conference theme: Access and Accessibility – Archival Policies and Barriers in the Age of Global Information Exchange
Open and equal access to information is in high demand, yet may be impeded by social, cultural, and economic barriers. The question of access at the same time encourages discussions on the technical, legal, and practical modes of accessibility.
The programme committee for the IASA 2018 conference invites proposals focused on the prospects and limitations of global and local access and accessibility to audiovisual archives, as well as on issues of discovery, care, preservation and dissemination of our sound and audiovisual heritage.
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Posted: January 4th, 2018 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on EUPOP 2018
Charles University, Prague, July 24th – 26th, 2018
Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed for the seventh annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), to be held at the Charles University, Prague (Celetná 20), July 24th – 26th, 2018.
EUPOP 2018 will explore European popular culture in all its various forms. This includes, but is by no means limited to, the following topics: European Film (past and present), Television, Music, Costume and Performance, Celebrity, The Body, Fashion, New Media, Popular Literature and Graphic Novels, Queer Studies, Sport, Curation, and Digital Culture. A special emphasis this year will be on the idea of European Identity in all its diversity.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Institute of Registered Music Teachers New Zealand Annual Conference
21st – 25th January 2019
Otago University, St Margaret’s College, Dunedin, New Zealand
Southern Themes and Variations
The Institute of Registered Music Teachers New Zealand Annual Conference January 2019 invites participants to consider the challenges, present and future, of teaching music in the twenty-first century. At a time when music may be marginalised through cultural shifts and changes in educational priorities, how can the music teacher both adapt to and remain relevant within this new environment? What can teachers at different levels (primary through tertiary) and in different contexts (private tuition vs. itinerant vs. institutions) learn from one another? How are decisions made at higher educational levels affecting teaching practices on a day-to-day basis? With these questions as springboards, we particularly welcome submissions that address, directly and indirectly, the following themes:
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Posted: December 12th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Popular Culture Association of Canada (PCAC) 8th Annual Conference
May 3-5, 2018
The eighth annual Conference of the Popular Culture Association of Canada will be held at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada from Thursday, May 3 to Saturday, May 5, 2018.
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.
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Posted: December 12th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Resonating Occupation
Date: Friday, 11 May 2018
Location: The Trent Building, University Park Campus, University of Nottingham, UK
“Resonating Occupation” will be the second workshop held under the ERC-funded Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia (COTCA) project at the University of Nottingham. You can find more information at: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/cotca/index.aspx
This workshop will bring together scholars from multiple disciplines working at the nexus of sound, music, and foreign occupation—here defined broadly to include studies of colonialism, imperialism, conflict and war. While presenters are encouraged to discuss their current work in these fields, it is also expected that presentations will enable wider conceptual, methodological and theoretical discussions which will be of interest to participants working in different disciplinary and geographic contexts. Discussion at the workshop will revolve around the following questions.
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Posted: December 12th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Edinburgh German Yearbook 13: Music in Politics / Politics in Music
Edited by Siobhán Donovan (University College Dublin) and Maria Euchner (University of Edinburgh)
Music and politics have a long history of joining forces, creating powerful results, and enriching and influencing one another along the way. Not only is music often employed for political purposes, but politics can provide composers and musicians with a rich tapestry of material informing their musical explorations.
Music was arguably instrumental in shaping German identity and continues to play a role in the German national imagination today. It has been used for both patriotic and nationalistic purposes – the line separating the two often being very fine – and is manipulated by specific political parties and by musicians to convey political messages and convictions both to the left and the right of the political spectrum. The turbulent history of the German national anthem, and the fact that it is not mentioned in the Grundgesetz, is also testament to the emotional charge that can result from marrying music and politics. During times of war, music – classical, as well as popular – played an important role, both at home and at the front, and was frequently employed as a motivational force, a propaganda tool, or a weapon. Music can create a sense of identity and belonging, and is able to trigger memories that may be either welcome or disturbing.
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Posted: December 7th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on DISCO! An Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Sussex
21-23 June 2018
From its origins as a New York City subculture amongst gay, black and Latino/Latina practitioners, and its transition into the mainstream, to its subsequent lives across international scenes, disco poses pivotal questions about the entanglements of art, industry, identity, and community. Disco is the site of many significant and lasting debates in popular culture, including those surrounding the figures of the DJ and the diva, the status and significance of dancing bodies, the tension between what is authentic and what is synthetic, and the historic maligning of society’s others.
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Posted: December 5th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Applied Ethno/Musicology and the Applicability of Music Studies
The 22nd annual symposium, University of Helsinki, March 7 to 9, 2018.
We are now accepting proposals for individual papers and themed panels in English, Finnish and Swedish. Themed panels (90 min) can consist of individual papers or a panel discussion. Please submit your proposal by Januray 15, 2018.
Applied ethnomusicology has for decades sought to develop ways of extending the influence of music studies also beyond academic contexts: for example, in relation to the sustainability of various music cultures and through music’s potential roles in tackling social and political problems. However, currently widespread discussions about the ”impact” of research and the significance of cross-disciplinarity urge music scholars in any area of study to critically reflect on the scholarly and potentially broader social implications of their work.
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