Sounds of then, sounds of now Popular music in Australia Edited by Shane Homan and Tony Mitchell Hobart: ACYS Publishing, June 2008 In Sounds of then, sounds of now: Popular music in Australia some of the country’s most respected popular music researchers, musicians and music journalists document a range of past and present Australian sounds [...]

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Call for Papers Jazz Research Journal special issue 19 November 2008 Adelphi House, University of Salford “History is his story – my story is a mystery” (Sun Ra) Since the mid-1990s jazz scholars have challenged established jazz histories, using a range of critical methodologies to examine the constructed nature of existing narratives. More recently, studies [...]

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Job Advert Senior Lecturer in Music Technology (Popular Musicology) School of Music, Humanities & Media University of Huddersfield West Yorkshire England, UK £34,094 – £43,190 pro rata, 0.5 FTE Ref: 3910 We are looking for an expert in musicology as it relates to popular music and/or music technology to join a thriving team teaching Music [...]

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NZ School of Music, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences An exciting opportunity to work in the NZ School of Music Location: Kelburn Campus Term of Contract: Permanent Closing Date: 31 July 2008 Reference: A249-08Z Position Overview The New Zealand School of Music, a joint venture of Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington, seeks [...]

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University of Otago Te Whare Wananga o Otago Dunedin, New Zealand Lecturer in Music (confirmation path) Department of music Applications are invited for the confirmation path position of Lecturer in the Department of Music, Division of Humanities. The appointee will have expertise in popular music and world music. The Department of Music offers degrees specialising [...]

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The VIII Conference of the Latin-American Branch of IASPM will be held from 18 to 22 June in Lima, Perú. Info: http://www.pucp.edu.pe/congreso/almacorazonyvida/index.html Some activities will be transmited by Internet from http://media.pucp.edu.pe/gdln/almacorazonyvida Cyber-audience will be able to put questions to speakers by Internet instant-messages.

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Call for Papers Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology 2009 http://www.bfe2009.net Submission deadline: 30 November 2008 The Annual Conference of the BFE will be held from 16 – 19 April 2009, and hosted by the Popular Music Studies Unit at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. This 4-day conference seeks to generate new perspectives [...]

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Call for Papers Popular Music Worlds, Popular Music Histories IASPM 15th biennial conference University of Liverpool, UK July 13-17, 2009 For its 15th biennial conference, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) invites papers which explore the various connections and disconnections between popular musical worlds and popular music histories. Given Liverpool’s important [...]

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Submissions are invited for a special edition of Popular Music and Society, which will focus on the general theme of journalism and popular music. Contributors are invited to consider the topic in diverse ways; possible themes might include: the status of the "critic" the politics of fanzines popular music periodicals and magazines the functions of [...]

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Nov. 14-16, 2008 Hosted by William Moylan at The University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA Call For Papers Conference Summary: The ARP Conference gathers together industry professionals, academic scholars, and musicians who utilize and study recording technology as a principle means of creative expression. It is the aim of this conference to facilitate the [...]

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