The latest issue of Cultural Politics has just been published: The Voice of the People? Musicians as Political Actors Seth Hague, John Street, and Heather Savigny on Bob Geldof, Live 8 and the legacies of Rock Against Racism Making Space: Image-Events in an Extreme State Johanna Drucker asks whether in our image-saturated culture works of [...]

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School of Arts, University of Turku, Finland August 29-30, 2008 Call for Papers Confirmed keynote speakers: Anne-Marie Fortier, Lancaster University Jocelyne Guilbault, University of California, Berkeley David Leiwei Li, University of Oregon Maria Roth-Lauret, Sussex University Possible paper topics for 20-minute presentations might include but are not limited to the following: representations of multiculturalisms multiculturalisms [...]

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Study Day on the subject of Electronic Dance Music Keele University 22 May 2008 Keynote Speakers: Dr Hillegonda Rietveld (London South Bank University) Dr Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield) Research students from the UK and abroad are invited to submit proposals for papers and compositions related to Electronic Dance Music/Electronica. Calls are also to be [...]

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Meeting for students in musicology and young musicologists ESMUC, Barcelona, 8-10 May 2008 The students in musicology of the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) organize a meeting for students and young musicologists, in the School. The aim is to share questions and interests about our discipline and to create a web of communication [...]

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The hunt for the worst sound in the world Fingernails scraping down a blackboard… the scream of a baby… your neighbour’s dog barking: what is the worst sound in the world? This is what this website has been trying to find out: Vote for the worst sound Acoustic science is concerned with the production, transmission, [...]

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Call for papers Paper proposals are invited for an international, interdisciplinary conference on Text, Media and Improvisation, to be held at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on June 21 and 22, 2008. This conference is organized by members of an inter-university research project entitled Improvisation, Community and Social Practice. While papers may touch on [...]

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SLAS Conference March 28-30 University of Liverpool Call for papers Music is a present element in the life of individuals living as part of communities and nations. Music in Latin America holds a rich variety of expressions originated within and outside the region. In an expansive trend of cultural globalisation, the study of music in [...]

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Call for papers Music and the idea of the North 6-7 September 2008 Venue: Sullivan Room, Leeds Town Hall A conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the opening of Leeds TownHall, hosted by: The Institute of Northern Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds University Centre for English Music (LUCEM), University of Leeds Leeds International Concert [...]

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Call for contributors for an edited collection Psytrance: Local Scenes and Global Culture Edited by Graham St John This volume seeks contributions to the study of psytrance (psychedelic trance) culture. In particular, it will feature research attending to psytrance as a product of intersecting local and global trajectories. International and interdisciplinary, the collection will host [...]

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