Posted: June 7th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on IV UskoMus symposium: Music and Islam
Cultural Centre Stoa, Helsinki, 10 November 2016
Call for Presentations
UskoMus* Research Network (uskomus.com) will organise its next one-day symposium with the theme ”Music and Islam”, with islamologist Jonas Otterbeck (Lund University) as a guest speaker. The symposium will be followed by a public discussion and a concert celebrating the 25-year career of the Turkish-Finnish band Nefes (nefes.fi), supported by Senegalese Pape Sarr, Rane Diallo, Ismaila Sane and Ousseynou Mbaye, and with an emphasis on Sufi musical practices.
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Posted: June 2nd, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Music – Sound – Radio: Theorizing Music Radio
University of Copenhagen 25-27 May 2017
In a year, the Danish music and radio research project Ramund will close. To mark this, we will organize a seminar focusing mainly on the theoretical aspects of the many different relations between music and radio and the meetings between the two in music-radio. The aim of the seminar will be to publish an anthology of articles.
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Posted: May 26th, 2016 | Filed under: News | Comments Off on Approaches to Popular Music Studies in Dublin and beyond
Friday, 10 June 2016, 10.30am
ST PATRICK’S COLLEGE, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY
The Department of Music at St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University is delighted to host an interdisciplinary symposium on Approaches to Popular Music Studies in Dublin and beyond. Uniting, for the first time in Dublin, scholars, educators, and practitioners working across the diverse fields of popular music studies, this roundtable will address the academic study of contemporary popular music in Ireland.
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Posted: May 13th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Long Beach Indie Film, Media, and Music Conference
Abstract Deadline: May 25, 2016
www.longbeachindie.hollywoodpost.com
The Long Beach Indie International Film, Media, and Music Festival is looking for scholars, musicians, filmmakers, archivists, journalists, and digital media producers to bring their art, intellect, and energy to our 2016 Film, Media, and Music Conference (August 31-September 4, 2016).
Co-sponsored by The California Endowment, KJAZZ Radio, HollywoodPost.com, and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, in past years Oscar, Grammy, Golden Globe, Latin Grammy, Emmy, ALMA, BET, and NAACP Image Award winners and nominees have joined international scholars from some of the world’s top universities as presenters and commentators.
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Posted: May 13th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on NOISE & SILENCE Themed Issue ‘URBAN / RURAL’, Summer 2016
NOISE & SILENCE is an adventurous publication that brings you fresh and informed pieces on issues facing all kinds of music and sound as conceptualised in today’s 21st century society. The project was founded in November 2015 by Oxford University students, and our team has now expanded to include graduates, post-graduates, and early-career researchers across the UK. Our aim is to create a platform that bridges the gap between music lovers and cutting-edge music research.
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Posted: May 9th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Women and Electronic Dance Music Culture
Special edition of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
Guest Editors: Rebekah Farrugia and Magdalena Olszanowski
https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult
This special edition of Dancecult seeks to address the diverse roles of women-identified persons within electronic dance music culture (EDMC). While a great deal has been written about the practices of EDM subcultures and DJ culture in general, the experiences of women has received little attention perpetuating and reinforcing male dominance.
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Posted: May 7th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Bey Day: A One Day Conference on Beyoncé
30th of June, 2016 – Cardiff University School of Music
Beyoncé has become one of the most iconic performers of the twenty-first century; she has always been at the cutting edge of music, fashion and audio-visual media, often asserting her personal politics along the way. Beyoncé has provided us with a plethora of cultural landmark moments from the Single-Ladies dance, to her Glastonbury headline set to her performance of ‘I Was Here’ in front of the United Nations. It is for these amongst many more reasons we celebrate the work of Mrs Carter at this unique conference on the day her Formation tour comes to Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.
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Posted: May 7th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on And beyond… Popular Music and Transgression(s)
2nd IASPM-D-A-CH-Conference
20-23.10.2016 – Karl-Franzens-University of Graz
Organized in cooperation with the Institute of Musicology at the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz/A the second IASPM-DACH conference will take place from October 20th to 23rd 2016 – at the same time as the 11th edition of the elevate Festival, which connects a critical-political discourse and advanced electronic music, literature and art. That also roughly outlines our conference topic: Popular Music and Transgression(s). Seemingly independent from specific cultural and historical contexts, moments of transgression seem to be a characteristic feature of popular music styles, their practices, media and theories.
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Posted: April 30th, 2016 | Filed under: News | Comments Off on EXHIBITION: ‘Is There Anyone Out There?’ Documenting Birmingham’s Alternative Music Scene 1986-1990
4-28th May 2016
Parkside Building, Birmingham City University, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG
Established in 1986 by Dave Travis and Steve Coxon, The Click Club was the name of a concert venue and disco associated with Birmingham’s alternative music culture. Located in ‘Burberries’ – a conventional nightclub site in the pre-regeneration city centre, the club showcased a wide variety of acts reflecting the varied culture of the independent and alternative sector.
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Posted: April 25th, 2016 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on IASPM UK & Ireland Biennial Conference – Brighton, UK
The Clarendon Centre, Brighton
8-10 September 2016
UPDATE: You can now view the IASPM Conference Schedule.
The University of Sussex and the British and Irish Modern Music Institute (Brighton) are hosting the 2016 conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, UK & Ireland branch. The theme of the conference is ‘Popular Music: Creativity, Practice and Praxis’.
Keynote: Professor Chris Rojek City University London
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