Oxford University Press intends to publish a second, revised and expanded edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, originally issued in 1984. Reflecting advances in scholarship during the past quarter-century, the second edition will encompass a greater range of subjects in more detail, thus serving a larger community of readers worldwide.

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2010 Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music – U.S. Branch New Orleans, Louisiana, April 9-11 Deadline for abstracts: 1st December, 2009 New Orleans has long been known as the “birthplace of jazz;” more recently, it has become a signifier for ruin. The chaos wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 signaled [...]

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Popular Music and Society Special Issue Edited by Susan Fast and Stan Hawkins Call for Submissions Submissions are invited for a special edition of Popular Music and Society that examines constructions of subjectivity in Michael Jackson’s music, with a focus on gender, sexuality, age, disability, and race. Contributors are invited to address ways in which Jackson’s [...]

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Koli, Finland June 16-19, 2010 Call for papers (reminder): abstracts by October 12 The 2010 WFAE conference will be held at Koli in Eastern Finland. Koli is a plausible site for reflecting upon ideologies, ethics and soundscapes, since it was amongst the key places of the national romantic artist pilgrims in the late 19th century [...]

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Call for papers Abstract deadline extended to September 15 Annual Conference of IASPM-ANZ International Association for the Study of Popular Music Australia-New Zealand branch 27-29 November 2009 The theme of this year’s conference seeks to generate discussion and debate around the ‘value’ we ascribe to popular music(s). ‘Value’ relates to music as commodity and economic [...]

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Bethany Klein As Heard on TV: Popular Music in Advertising (Aldershot: Ashgate 2009) Review by Francesco D’Amato The complex whole of ties between music and TV ads has been recently pushed to the foreground by the changes in the music production/commercialization system and correlated shifts from B2C to B2B business models. However it represents a [...]

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International Conference – June 3rd to June 6th 2010 The Interactive Media and Performance (IMP) Labs, along with the Department of Media Production and Studies, and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Regina are pleased to present a call for papers, panels, roundtables, and workshops on the theme of Spaces of Violence, [...]

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Call for Proposals October 28-31, 2010 Rectory of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal The Ethnomusicology Institute – Center for the Study of Music and Dance is pleased to host the international conference ‘Musics and Knowledge in Transit‘ at the Rectory of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa from October 28 to 31, 2010. The [...]

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Stan Hawkins The British Pop Dandy: Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture (Aldershot: Ashgate 2009) Review by Nathan Wiseman-Trowse In 1999 the British pop band The Divine Comedy released one of their most successful singles ‘National Express’. Secreted away as a B-side on the second CD single was a wonderfully wry and affectionate Noël Coward pastiche [...]

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The Institute of Popular Music (IPM) at the University of Liverpool is hosting the 15th Biennial IASPM International Conference, from 13th to 17th July 2009. The full programme can be found on the conference website.

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