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.
Read the award winning essay here.
More about Ben Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 7th, 2015 | Filed under: News | Comments Off on 2nd International Summer School, Methods of Popular Music Analysis
Osnabrueck (Germany), 14th-18th September 2015
The GfPM (German Society for Popular Music Studies) and the University of Osnabrueck are inviting applications for participation in the 2nd International Summer School “Methods of Popular Music Analysis” at the Institute of Musicology and Music Pedagogy in Osnabrueck, Germany, from Monday 14th to Friday 18th September 2015.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 7th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Music History and Cosmopolitanism
Fourth Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History
June 1–3, 2016 at Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland
http://www.uniarts.fi/en/cosmopol2016
Keynote Speakers (see below for abstracts)
Brigid Cohen, New York University, USA
Mark Everist, University of Southampton, GB
Franco Fabbri, University of Turin, IT
Conference Outline
The Third Sibelius Academy Symposium (2014) took as its theme the questioning of methodological nationalism in music historiography: the kind of historiography that, according to Beck and Sznaider, equates society with national society (“Unpacking Cosmopolitanism for the Social Sciences,” 2006: 2). They called, instead, for a methodological cosmopolitanism, an alternative that has gained momentum within musicology, often alongside related concepts: the last two decades have seen increased attention to the conspicuous mobility of works and musicians; to cities as sites of cosmopolitan encounter; and to the transnational and global connections created and exploited by musicians.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 7th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on In Praise of Paul Weller…? Reflections on Popular Music Studies
Symposium, Wednesday 23 March 2016
Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research
‘What often passed the post-punk brigade by was Weller’s musical subtlety: the allusions to Motown and Stax, the willingness to experiment. That really came to the fore when he started the Style Council, which disgruntled fans wrote off as soulboys. Nor did they welcome the later house-music direction. But not for nothing has Weller referred to himself as The Changingman – a restlessness and impatience that makes him a much more compelling artist. Nice line in knitwear, too.’ Guardian Leader, Friday 27 August 2010
An enduring fixture of popular music culture for almost 40 years, Paul Weller and his work has been the subject of relatively little academic scrutiny. In attending to Weller’s work, the purpose of this symposium is to consider his longevity, musical path and identity as ways of raising questions about the history, historiography, direction, range and operations of popular music culture and its scholarly study.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 4th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Rhythms of Life: Youth and Popular Culture in a Changing South Africa
13-14 November 2015, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town
Rhythms of Life: Youth and Popular Culture in a Changing South Africa is a two day symposium organized by the Human Sciences Research Council, the University of Helsinki’s discipline of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and the University of the Western Cape’s Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research. It is an interdisciplinary symposium that encourages contributions from across the social sciences and humanities.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 21st, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on IASPM- UK & Ireland Postgraduate Conference 2015: Popular Music Futures
Cardiff University School of Music
10-11 September 2015, Cardiff University School of Music
This conference seeks to be an open forum for new and innovative approaches to all aspects of Popular Music Studies as well as an opportunity for the next generation of academics to present to peers.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 13th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Gender and Music: Practices, Performances, Politics
16th-18th March 2016
School of Music, Theatre and Art, Örebro University, Sweden
From challenging the idea that music is an inherently democratic medium, to observing how we should approach music as a political tool, musicians, activists and feminist theorists have done a great deal to change the way people think about music. At the same time, the way in which gender has often been challenged and subverted through music has also fuelled political discussion about gender as performative, malleable and diverse.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 2nd, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Sacred Songs: Religion, Spirituality and the Divine in Popular Music Culture
The University of Central Lancashire, the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance and the University of Chichester are pleased to invite submissions of proposals for the symposium The Sacred in Popular Music that will take place at The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance on Thursday 30th July 2015.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 20th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on New Directions in Jazz Studies – One-Day Symposium
Friday 5th June 2015 – Senate House, University of London
Jazz Studies within the UK is continuing to thrive as a research field, with a number of graduate, post-doctoral, and early career researchers adding to an already wide array of researchers in multiple disciplines.
This one-day symposium aims to foster a network of postgraduates and ECRs working within the broad area of jazz studies in the UK. Participants will critically reflect on existing research methodologies, and explore future directions for the academic study of jazz. With this aim in mind, we invite papers of no more than 20 minutes, allowing time for questions and extended discussion.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 20th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Musimorphoses: On the future of music listening in the digital era
International symposium, 11-12-13 November 2015, Paris, Telecom Paris Tech
With the spread of digital technology, all cultural practice is subject to reconfiguration. On the one hand, audiences can access a significantly higher amount of goods. On the other, the cost-free model and piracy practices have altered people’s willingness to pay. Likewise, the dematerialisation of contents tends to turn the data culture into a service culture. Finally, the abundant nature of repertoires provided to audiences triggered the need for new modes of recommendation mainly reflected by the growing significance of algorithms.
Read the rest of this entry »