Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Interactive Media and Performance Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Regina The Faculty of Fine Arts, with Dr. Charity Marsh, (Canada Research Chair in Interactive Media and Performance) at the University of Regina, is now advertising for a Post-Doctoral Fellow. The fellowship is related to Dr. Marsh’s research in one or more [...]

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the eXtensible Electric Guitar Festival Since its development in the mid-twentieth century, the electric guitar has had a profound influence on many aspects of music, creating new sounds, spurring the development of new musical styles, and reshaping concepts of musicianship. In the early twenty first century, despite retaining its iconic status as a symbol of [...]

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Postgraduate Open Day Department of Music, University of Nottingham Tuesday 11 December, 12:00-6:00. – Find out more about Nottingham’s distinctive MA in Music (with pathways in Early Music, Music and Gender Studies, Music and Geography, Music and Film, Theory and Analysis) and research degrees in musicology and composition. – Find out about funding opportunities. – [...]

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is seeking nominations and applications for Vice President, Education and Public Programs. The ideal candidate will have five+ years of professional managerial experience in educational programming and curriculum development, preferably in a museum, cultural institution or academic setting. He/she will be a skilled manager who will [...]

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Music and the Moving Image III Conference at NYU, May 30 – June 1, 2008 Call for papers The third annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, computer, video games, and interactive performance) through [...]

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IASPM-Canada Annual Conference Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario May 9-11, 2008 Popular Music & Popular Culture: Intersections & Histories The conference title has a deliberately wide remit to encourage numerous and diverse interpretations of relationships between popular music and popular culture. Proposals are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following categories: Collectors and collecting [...]

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At Ramapo College in northern New Jersey we are seeking a new full-time faculty member with a specialty in music business with possibly some experience in music production as well. We’ve had a music business program for a number of years, but this represents a commitment from the college supporting growth in this area. We [...]

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Advance Conference Note and Call For Papers “De-Canonizing Music History” International Symposium for Histories of Popular Music, Jazz, and Folk Music November 29–December 1, 2007 Sibelius Academy Helsinki, Finland Sibelius Academy proudly presents a call for papers for an international symposium dedicated to popular music, jazz, and folk music. Three departments of the Sibelius Academy [...]

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Call for contributions for an Edited Collection on Popular Music in Canada Edited by Charity Marsh and Holly Everett Working Title: Spanning the Distance: Reflections On Popular Music in Canada The editors invite proposals for a volume of essays that take up one or more of the following five themes: Popular Music Studies in Canada: [...]

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Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity Veit Erlmann, ed Oxford: Berg, 2004 The reader of Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity is met first with the image of an ear that graces the cover of the book.  This is not any ear.  Rather, it is an ear cast in white porcelain.  [...]

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