Call for chapters
Punk in the 21st-Century
Editors: Alastair Gordon and Mike Dines

Alastair Gordon and Mike Dines are seeking contributions from the inter-disciplinary areas of cultural studies, musicology and social sciences, for an edited text on the global punk/DiY ‘scenes’ of the 2000s onwards; reflecting upon the notion of origins, music(s), identity, legacy, membership and circulation. Aiming to continue the work of George McKay – and most notably his DiY Culture: Party and Protest in Nineties Britain (1998) – this volume will attempt to traverse the global as a means of mapping the existence of punk/DiY post-2000. As such, this volume will adopt an essentially analytical perspective so as to raise questions initially over the dissemination of the scene and subsequently over its form, structure and cultural significance beyond the 1990s. [Read more →]

Call for articles
Journal of World Popular Music
Editor: Simone Krüger

We are pleased to announce a call for submission of articles for the new Journal of World Popular Music (first issue to be published in June 2014). Articles may focus on the study of world popular music in all its forms and from a variety of academic and other perspectives, including any local popularized musics of the world, commercially available music of non-Western origin, musics of ethnic minorities, and contemporary fusions or collaborations with local ‘traditional’ or ‘roots’ musics with Western pop and rock musics. [Read more →]

Call for papers
Mediating Cityscapes
Den Haag/The Hague
25-27 September 2013

If urban space has historically been defined by the relation between static structures and mobile subjects, this dichotomy is fast giving way to hybrid spatialities characterized by dynamic flows which not only dissolve the fixity of traditional modes of spatial enclosure, but problematize the unified presence of the subject traversing their contours. Scott McQuire, The Media City (2008) [Read more →]

Lecturer in Digital Cultures‏
University of Liverpool
Salary Grade 8, £37,382-£47,314 pa

The Department of Communication and Media and The School of Music wish to appoint a Lecturer in Digital Cultures. Applicants with expertise in social media, audio-visual cultures, screen media, and/or video games, are especially welcome, but those with teaching and research expertise in other areas of digital media are also encouraged to apply, so long as their interests relate to the work of both departments. [Read more →]

Call for papers
IASPM-ANZ 2013 Conference
Popular Music Communities, Places and Ecologies
Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University
24-26 November 2013

We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the 2013 IAPSM-ANZ conference, which will be held at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, in conjunction with the International Music Council’s 5th World Forum for Music (21-24 November). The theme of the IMC World Forum is Sustaining Music, Engaging Communities with a strong emphasis on the interplay between music, musicians and their various environments of activity (natural, built, social and cultural, etc.). Drawing on this, the theme of the 2013 IASPM-ANZ conference, Popular Music Communities, Places and Ecologies seeks to foster scholarly engagement with the various ways in which music, people and place are connected. While notions of ‘community’ and ‘place’ are well-established constructs in popular music studies, we introduce here the notion of ‘ecology’ as a further consideration in the relationship between popular music and place. This term may be understood literally, in reference to the natural or physical environment, or figuratively, as a metaphor for the numerous other possible environments of popular music production and consumption. [Read more →]

IASPM 2013 Elections
Nomination Form
Nominations Closing Date: 24 May 2013

As outlined in the IASPM Statutes (9.1, 9.5) and Rules of Procedure (2.1.5), the International Association for the Study of Popular Music welcomes nominations from members wishing to serve on the next Executive Committee elected at the General Meeting of members convened at the 2013 conference to be held at the Universidad de Oviedo in Gijón.

Please download the form from this link: http://www.iaspm.net/doc/NOMIN13.zip

and return it completed to: carloanardi[at]gmail.com

using this subject line: IASPM 2013 Elections

Nominations closing date: 24 May 2013 [Read more →]

Call for papers
Culture(s) and Resistance Today
19-21 June 2014
Nîmes University (France)

The 6th Cultural Geography, Anthropology, and Cultural Studies International Conference in Languedoc-Roussillon, organized by Catherine Bernié-Boissard, Claude Chastagner, Dominique Crozat and Laurent-Sébastien Fournier, will focus on culture(s) and resistance today. What is the nature of the connections between the various forms of culture and the various forms of resistance? Dialogues, oppositions, transformations? The conference will investigate anthropology (nature and culture), history (civilization and culture), geography (territories, identities, landscapes and cultures) as well as the contemporary representations given of these connections by various art forms. [Read more →]

IASPM Book Prize
Call for Nominations
Deadline: 22 April 2013

A public award will be given by IASPM for two outstanding first books by a single author on popular music, one in English, the other in any other language, at the 2013 Gijón IASPM conference. [Read more →]

Call for contributions via text or video blogs
Online Conference on Performance in the Studio
29 April-5 May 2013
Convened by the (UK) AHRC-funded Research Network on Performance in the Studio (PitS)

The PitS Network was set up to study musical performance in the recording studio from as wide a range of perspectives as possible. The main focus has been a filmed recording session that took place in the studios of the London College of Music, UWL involving Jo Beth Young, a singer / songwriter and Grammy-winning producer Mike Howlett. Along with drummer Chris Taylor, double bass player Jonny Bridgwood and the Bergersen String Quartet arranged by Oscar nominated arranger/composer John Cameron, Jo Beth Young and Mike Howlett were filmed in rehearsal and throughout the session and in a series of interviews. This unprecedented resource will be available to view on the Art of Record Production (ARP) website at the beginning of April 2013. As a further output of the research network we are convening an online conference which will also remain as a legacy resource on the ARP website. [Read more →]

Call for authors
Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia
Deadline: 28 June 2013

Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences is the definitive reference resource that takes a broad interdisciplinary approach to the nexus between music and the social sciences. The encyclopedia fills a library market gap by looking at how music affects human beings and their interactions in the world. The interdisciplinary nature of the work provides a starting place for students to situate the status of music within the social sciences in fields like anthropology, communications, psychology, sociology, sports, political science, and economics as well as biology and the health sciences. This reference work contains approximately 450 articles in two large volumes, richly illustrated with photographs and video and audio clips in the online edition, which provide the sociological context for students to examine the importance of music in today’s society. The signed articles, with cross-references and Further Readings are accompanied by pedagogical elements, including the Reader’s Guide, Chronology of Music, Resource Guide, Glossary, and thorough Index. [Read more →]