NZ School of Music, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences An exciting opportunity to work in the NZ School of Music with its strong existing tradition of ethnomusicology, and to shape the future development of the programme. Location: Kelburn Campus Term of Contract: Permanent Reference: A162-08Z Link to the Post Closing Date: 30 May 2008 [...]

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1st Global Conference Monday 3rd November – Wednesday 5th November 2008 Salzburg, Austria It is about time, that with a growing critical interest in the music and culture of heavy metal, a conference be held to explore, critique and bang heads on what this long standing movement is about, where it is going and what [...]

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Professor/Associate Professor in musicology Ethnomusicology and/or popular music studies The Grieg Academy-Department of Music at the University of Bergen, Norway, has a vacancy in a permanent position as professor in musicology (ethnomusicology and/or popular music studies). If applicants do not meet the qualification criteria for a position as Professor, they may be evaluated for a [...]

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Annual Conference of IASPM-ANZ International Association for the Study of Popular Music Australia-New Zealand branch Stuck in the middle The Mainstream and its Discontents 28-30 November 2008 Presented by the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas (CPCI) Griffith University Brisbane, Australia Whilst “cutting edge” and “alternative” music has played a central role in popular music [...]

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Call For Articles for the Journal on the Art of Record Production Issue 3: Editor – Simon Zagorski-Thomas Deadline: 30th May 2008 Themes: Business Models and The Production Process This would involve articles on issues such how changing production techniques on the question of authorship, copyright and even the ontology of music. It could also [...]

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Call for papers Time and place: November 13-14, 2008 in Roskilde, Denmark Proposal deadline: May 1, 2008 Main contact person: Fabian Holt (please write Roskilde conference in the subject line) Venue: Roskilde (more details will be announced soon) Web site: http://web.mac.com/fabsound/Site/Conf.html Keynote speakers: Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths College) David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds) Gerhard Schulze (University [...]

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The Research Networks Sociology of Arts and Sociology of Culture of the European Sociological Association (ESA) are organizing a joint mid-term conference this year in Venice, 4-8 November 2008 on Arts, Culture and Public Sphere Expressive and Instrumental Values in Economic and Sociological Perspectives The local organizer is Prof. Pier Luigi Sacco from the Faculty [...]

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The Arab Avant-Garde: Musical Innovation in the Middle East Edited by Thomas Burkhalter, Kay Dickinson and Benjamin J. Harbert We are currently soliciting chapter proposals for an anthology on the largely under-researched area of avant-garde music affiliated to the Arab world. All definitions of experimentalism and any disciplinary (or anti-disciplinary) approaches will be considered as [...]

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Call for abstracts 13 – 15 June 2008 University of Edinburgh, Scotland The Institute for Music in Human and Social Development, in collaboration with Queen’s University, Canada, invites abstracts for an interdisciplinary, international conference on the topic of Dance, Timing and Musical Gesture. The aim of the conference is to consider the temporal dynamics, expressive [...]

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Call For Papers: New Edited Collection Closing Date: July 1st 2008 Sounding Science Fiction will be an edited collection that examines the way that sound, in all its aesthetic and technological forms, is deployed to audio-sense a science fiction encounter, world, or universe. The collection will be concerned with sound design and sound signification, and [...]

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