IASPM-US 2009 Conference University of California, San Diego May 29-31, 2009 San Diego, CA The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to December 22 Borders, boundaries, and frontiers have intersected and interacted with popular music in differing ways, times, and places, and oftentimes these relationships have been particularly resonant in diasporic communities. Taking [...]

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An Interdisciplinary Conference on Music & Copyright University of Salford, UK February 18-19, 2009 This conference proposes to investigate the current U.S. and U.K. statutes that regulate the protection of sound recordings. It will inquire to what degree those laws secure the rights of both the owners and creators of the music contained on these [...]

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Professor/associate professor/assistant professor in vocal performance in popular music at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Agder Ref nr 108/08 The University of Agder invites applications for a full time permanent position as Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in Vocal Performance in Popular Music at the Department of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts. The position is [...]

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The Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic, the Eduardo León Jimenes Cultural Center (Centro León) and the Institute of Caribbean Studies (INEC) announce the International Conference “The Bolero in Caribbean Culture and Its Worldwide Circulation,” to be celebrated April 17, 18, and 19, 2009, in the facilities of the Centro León, in Santiago de [...]

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Fabian Holt Genre In Popular Music (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007) Review by William Echard (Carleton University) As Holt glosses it: “this is a book about the work of genre categories in American popular music” (p. 1). In part the book is a theorization of genre as a site of cultural practice, and in [...]

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Call for Papers International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Canada Dalhousie University, Halifax June 12-14, 2009 IASPM-CA is pleased to call for proposals, panels and roundtables for this special interdisciplinary conference on the theme of “Peripheries and Centres.” We also welcome submissions on any aspect of popular music. We are aiming for [...]

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2009 Pop Conference at EMP|SFM April 16-19, 2009, Seattle, WA Call for Proposals Though Prince seems to have bowdlerized “D.M.S.R.” in his concerts since becoming a Jehovah’s Witness, the relationship of pop music to sex, love, physical movement, and the body rarely stays hidden very long. For this year’s Pop Conference we invite presentations, addressing [...]

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An international conference Venue: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Date: 10-11 July, 2009 Over the last twenty years or so there has been much interest in music and diaspora, that is in migrating music. No doubt this interest is historically grounded. Movement of peoples and their music across the world has [...]

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Call for contributions The Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies (JIMS) is an international peer-reviewed journal. Published twice per year, it aims to establish a broad interdisciplinary platform for music researchers. JIMS especially promotes collaborations between sciences and humanities and between theory and practice, and provocative submissions that stimulate interdisciplinary discussion. The journal aims: to contribute [...]

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Call for Papers Society for Music Analysis Autumn Study Day University of Liverpool, School of Music 22 November 2008 For most listeners to music, sensuous affect is of primary, perhaps even singular, importance. Our responses to music in everyday situations, ranging from background ambience to pounding film scores to sources of studious contemplation, are mediated [...]

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