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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Posted: May 27th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Musical and media connectivities: practices, circulation, interactions
Edited by Hélène Laurin & Andréane Morin-Simard
Kinephanos is a bilingual web-based journal. Focusing on questions involving cinema and popular media, Kinephanos encourages interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. The journal’s primary interests are movies and popular TV series, video games, emerging technologies and fan cultures . The preferred approaches include cinema studies, communication theories, religion sciences, philosophy, cultural studies and media studies.
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Posted: May 24th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Sonic Contestations of Nuclear Power
Noriko Manabe (Princeton) and Jessica Schwartz (UCLA) are preparing the edited volume, Sonic Contestations of Nuclear Power. This work will consist of academic essays or personal testimonials of approximately 5,000 words, as well as creative works. We have already received commitments from a number of notable authors and creators, and we are looking for a few additional essays to round out the volume. Our preliminary table of contents has met with great enthusiasm from a university press. We have also received substantial funding from the Centre for Human Values at Princeton University, which will host a workshop for contributors in late October 2015.
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Posted: May 21st, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Transposition: Listening lines, online listening
Issue 6 (2016): Listening lines, online listening
Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales
http://transposition.revues.org/
Coordination: Stéphan-Éloïse Gras et Peter Szendy
Since the 1990s, listening has been the subject of growing interest, in terms of not only its social history, but the related technical media and philosophical aspects. Research such as that presented by James H. Johnson (Listening in Paris, 1996), Peter Szendy (Écoute, une histoire de nos oreilles, 2001), Jean-Luc Nancy (À l’écoute, 2002), Jonathan Sterne (The Audible Past, 2003) and more recently, Martin Kaltenecker (L’Oreille divisée, 2010), Michael Bull (Sound Studies, 2013) and Veit Erlmann (Reason and Resonance, 2014) has given rise to a new field, although it is certainly not a homogenous field that can simply be contained in the category of “sound studies”.
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Posted: May 18th, 2015 | Filed under: News | Comments Off on Postgraduate MA and PhD Study in Popular Music
Students can study popular music at the University of Huddersfield at MA, MPhil or PhD level, and can include composition, performance, musicology, music technology and production. Students participate in a lively research environment, with 50 postgraduate students and a regular programme of events, concerts and seminars. Applications are encouraged which include practice based research, such as composition, performance or studio production, this work is usually accompanied by a short thesis. PhD by Publication allows those who already have a large body of existing research to evidence that existing work within 12 months of study.
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Posted: May 15th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The Hidden Musicians Revisited
A conference organised by the Music Department at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
11th-12th January 2016
Open University Professor Ruth Finnegan’s 1989 book The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town has been recognised as a landmark in the study of music and culture, a central concern in Open University Music research. In the preface to the 2007 edition, Finnegan identifies a number of new directions which have opened up since the time of her original study due to methodological and technological advances in the study of music. Her investigation of music-making in Milton Keynes (where the OU is based) focussed on amateur musicians, but there are numerous examples of professional musicians who remain ‘hidden’, perhaps because of biases related to gender, class, race and ethnicity, or owing to trends within musicology.
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Posted: May 13th, 2015 | Filed under: News | Comments Off on Andrew Goodwin Memorial Prize winner announced
A panel of four judges has now had the opportunity to consider all of the submissions for the inaugural Andrew Goodwin Memorial Prize for best postgraduate student essay in popular music research, and a winner has been selected. Congratulations to Ben Assiter who wins an award of £500 and will receive his prize shortly.
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