Posted: October 16th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Future / Present. Current Practices in Pop Music Studies.
19-20 June 2018, Department of Musicology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Deadline: 3 December 2017
From its first academic considerations, pop music has been conceptualized as a culturally embedded practice. Adapting theoretical and methodological tools from various fields, its study has transgressed disciplinary boundaries and emphasized the complex relations of the cultural, socio-economic, and political contexts of pop music. As Jaques Attali famously writes on the relationships between music and societal structures,
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Posted: October 11th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Prince from Minneapolis
A Symposium at the University of Minnesota
April 16-18, 2018
Prince was proud to hail from Minneapolis. Continuing to live and work there, he put the city firmly on the map of the music industry through the Minneapolis Sound. Until his unexpected death on April 21, 2016, he hosted parties for local fans at his Paisley Park studio. Prince is probably the only global megastar who has remained so embedded in the cultural life of their hometown.
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Posted: October 4th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The U2 Conference
U2: POPVision 2018
CFP Deadline: December 15, 2017
Conference date: June 13-15, 2018
Conference venue: Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Website: http://u2conference.com
Call for Presentations: Papers, Panels, Posters, Performances and Chairs
The U2 Conference, in partnership with The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast, and Fitzroy Presbyterian Church, will meet 13-15 June 2018 in Belfast, on the theme U2: POPVision. The conference is open to all scholars, critics, teachers, students, composers, performers and fans, and invites all disciplinary interests to explore the music, work and influence of U2, giving particular attention to U2’s Pop era of 1997-98 from a perspective some 20 years on.
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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: September 18th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Third International Conference of The Progect Network for the study of progressive rock
Following two fruitful, well-attended and very enjoyable conferences in Dijon (2014) and Edinburgh (2016), the third international Progect conference will be held on the 23rd, 24th and 25th May 2018 in Lund, Sweden. The conference is an opportunity to cover different aspects of progressive rock and promote awareness of current research around the world.
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Posted: September 16th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Royal Musical Association Conference 2018
University of Bristol, Sept 2018
Deadline: 5pm (GMT), Friday 24 November 2017
The integration of performance, composition and musicology is a principle of the Department of Music at the University of Bristol, and the Call for Proposals includes calls for acoustic and electroacoustic compositions. The programme committee invites proposals for the following:
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Posted: September 5th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Eaves
The Eaves is an online journal that features writing about sound, sound about writing, and everything in between. Aspiring to challenge the assumption that language is tuned to the visual more than to the auditory, it showcases essays, short fiction, and poetry that are all ears as well as sound pieces that deal with sound‘s relation to speech, writing, or both.
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Posted: September 3rd, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Royal Musical Association Study Day: Identity and Vinyl Culture
Saturday 18th November 2017
University of Birmingham
Keynote speaker: Paul Long, Professor of Media and Cultural History, Birmingham City University
The Department of Music at the University of Birmingham is delighted to host a Royal Musical Association Study Day. We welcome postgraduate researchers and practitioners from all areas of music to present their work in an inclusive, accessible and supportive space. We welcome submissions that engage with the study day theme of “Identity and Vinyl Culture”.
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Posted: September 3rd, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on El oído pensante
El oído pensante invites the submission of articles for the sixth volume (No. 1, 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.
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Posted: August 31st, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Writing the noise: the politics and history of subcultural music
The 2nd International Conference of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change
University of Reading
6–7 September 2018
Confirmed keynote speakers and events:
Simon Reynolds, author of Shock and Awe, Retromania, Energy Flash and Rip It Up and Start Again
Professor Lucy Robinson, University of Sussex, ‘Less History of Zines, More Zines as History’
Plenary panel of music journalists: from the mainstream to the pop press to fanzines, featuring Simon Reynolds, David Stubbs and Cathi Unsworth
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