Posted: August 31st, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Fourth Performance Studies Network International Conference
Bath Spa University, 14–17 July 2016
The international Performance Studies Network comprises professional and amateur musicians, scholars working in a range of musicological disciplines (including music history, analysis, psychology, pedagogy, ethnomusicology and composition), and colleagues from the creative industries. The fourth international conference of the Performance Studies Network will be held at Bath Spa University, Newton Park campus, from 14 to 17 July 2016. The aim is to debate theories, methodologies and practices of performance, and to engage with increasingly diverse, interdisciplinary developments in the field in order to encourage a more global perspective on performance studies.
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Posted: August 31st, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on No Business like Show Business! Popular Song around the World during the First World War
Call for chapters in English for a new book project
No Business like Show Business! Popular Song around the World during the First World War
Initiator : John Mullen, Université de Rouen, France, research team ERIAC
Key words : Cultural history, Popular song, performance, First World War
A considerable bibliography exists on nineteenth century popular song, and somewhat less on song from the first two decades of the twentieth century. The years of the First World War have been little studied, though in some countries this work has begun[1]. This book will go further towards filling this gap, working on the assumption that popular song of the time, often presented on the variety theatre stage and distributed by the sale of sheet music, expressed the joys, fears and fantasies of millions, and constituted a significant part of their history.
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Posted: August 11th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Second International Conference of The Progect Network for the study of progressive rock
After the success of the first initiative in Dijon (2014), The Progect is organizing its second international conference on the 25th, 26th and 27th May 2016 in Edinburgh, UK. This will be another opportunity to cover different aspects of progressive rock and promote awareness of current research around the world.
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Posted: July 31st, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship invites authors and artists to submit contributions for a special collection on the general topic of Jazz and Comics.
This will be an open access scholarly collection co-edited by Dr Nicolas Pillai (Birmingham City University) and Dr Ernesto Priego (City University London).
We welcome submissions from researchers, artists, graduate students, scholars, teachers, curators, publishers and librarians from any academic, disciplinary or creative background interested in the multidisciplinarystudy and/or practice of comics and jazz.
The popular forms of jazz and comics have shared similar historical and cultural tendencies. As expressions of modernism, they have been subject to the demands of the marketplace and consumed by wide and varied audiences. Yet the liberatory qualities of comics and jazz have provoked concern in moral guardians, particularly in relation to the subcultures they have generated. Recalling Bourdieu, we might note that, within these subcultures, very divergent and often incompatible judgements are fiercely defended (1983: 24). In the 21st century, both jazz and comics are accepted as art forms. However, this elevated cultural position has arguably come at a price, contributing to the restriction of some forms of jazz and comics to specialised spaces of purchase and consumption.
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Posted: July 20th, 2015 | Filed under: News | Comments Off on IASPM UK and Ireland Newsletter No. 31, July 2015
The latest edition of the newsletter of the IASPM UK and Ireland branch, edited by Michalis Poupazis, is now available to download or view online.
Posted: July 14th, 2015 | Filed under: News | Comments Off on Mapping Popular Music in Dublin
A Research Project based at the Department of Music, St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University, funded by Fáilte Ireland
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
‘Mapping Popular Music in Dublin’ is the first comprehensive research study on popular music in Dublin today, based at St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University and funded by Fáilte Ireland. The project aims to map popular music experience in Dublin by looking at popular music from the viewpoint of fans (citizens and tourists), musicians, and music industry personnel. The purpose is to inform tourism, culture and music industry organisations by providing the first comprehensive overview of popular music experience in Dublin to date.
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Posted: June 18th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Punk NOW!!
29th – 30th October 2015
Birmingham City University
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31st JULY 2015
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Dr Alistair Gordon (De Montfort University)
Dr Pete Dale (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Following the dynamic emergence of punk in the UK, USA and Europe in the 1970s, the subculture spread widely. As punk and new wave gained commercial and critical success, together with an attractive notoriety, it soon began an ongoing journey around the globe – both as a product and as an ideology. Punk, then, despite its omnipresence in contemporary underground and popular cultures, is clearly more than legacy music. More than forty years after the proto-punk progenitors of Detroit and New York unconsciously launched an underground revolution, to continue what some of the 60’s and 70’s anarchic counter culture propagated, and after untold premature obituaries, it appears that punk – in terms of music, philosophy, and identity – remains in rude health.
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Posted: June 12th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on PopScriptum 12 on Sound, Sexuality, and Sexism
It seems obvious, and not only from an academic perspective, that popular music is highly intertwined with sexuality and gender. The current discussion on this subject is reflected on the one hand in publications that ascribe subversion, androgyny, or queerness to popular music and its protagonists (see Doris Leibetseder, Sheila Whiteley/Jennifer Rycenga) and on the other in an explicit critique of sexist and sexualizing representations of women in the popular music context (see Nicola Dibben, Simon Frith/Angea McRobbie).
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Posted: June 9th, 2015 | Filed under: News | Comments Off on New posts available at Birmingham City University
Birmingham City University
Faculty of Arts, Design and Media
School of Media
FT Lecturer in Music Industries UL scale, £31,894-£37,589
062015-217
Joining the School of Media as a specialist lecturer in Music Industries and Popular Music Studies, you’ll contribute to our well-established suite of BA courses and undertake some teaching at postgraduate level.
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Posted: June 1st, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Ethnomusicology and Policy
British Forum for Ethnomusicology One-day Conference 2015
International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS), Newcastle University.
Saturday 31st October 2015
Ethnomusicology holds an extended and substantial history of engagement with, and contribution to, public policy. This conference acknowledges that history, and points to the growing role ethnomusicology plays in influencing how public policies are considered, constructed and revised. It emphasises the potentials and challenges in applied ethnomusicology, and encourages further dialogue around how ethnomusicology contributes to the public good.
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