Music and Arts in Action (MAiA) is a new, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that focuses on individual and group encounters with the arts in a practical social context, as well as theoretical work examining music and the arts as active components of human experience.

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SEM 2009 Annual Meeting in Mexico City November 19-22, 2009 The Society for Ethnomusicology will hold its 54th annual meeting on November 19-22, 2009, at the Meliã México Reforma Hotel in Mexico City and at the National Center for the Arts in nearby Coyoacán. This year’s meeting, titled “Borderless Ethnomusicologies,” will feature more than 400 [...]

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Gerd Bayer Heavy Metal Music in Britain (Surrey: Ashgate 2009) Review by Michelle Phillipov Heavy metal is one of popular music’s most enduring and commercially successful genres. Emerging in the late 1960s, metal has since undergone numerous transformations, from massive arena spectacles to obscure underground subgenres. Despite its longevity and sustained popularity over the past [...]

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Sean Stroud The Defence of Tradition in Brazilian Popular Music (Hampshire: Ashgate, 2008) Review by Alvaro Neder Stroud’s study “examines how notions of what constitutes Brazilian popular music have been constructed over a period of forty years or so since the mid 1960s” (p. 1). Under the “distinct impression” that “the influence of an essentially [...]

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Call For Papers – Deadline Extended to 30th April 2009 The Fifth Annual Art of Record Production Conference will be hosted by the Division of Music and Sound, The Atrium, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, S. Wales on November 13th – 15th 2009. [Steven Epstein, Nate Kunkel, Bob Ludwig, Paul Miller at 2008 ARP Conference]

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La nueva canción latinoamericana: A 21st Century View A Conference Hosted by the University of East Anglia 11th-12th September 2009 Call for Papers Mi pueblo me hace cantar is a two-day multidisciplinary conference that brings together leading researchers in the field of Latin American music and politics to examine the impact and legacy of the [...]

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IPEM – Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music Ghent, Belgium November 18-20 Sysmus09 is a conference of students of Systematic Musicology with focus on the ongoing research developed by PhD and advanced Master students from the SysMus discipline and other disciplines engaged in music research. It is a privileged forum to disseminate new research initiatives [...]

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Bruce Johnson and Martin Cloonan Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence (Adlershot: Ashgate 2008) Review by Carlo Nardi In his book The ragas of North India, Walter Kaufmann reports a conversation he had in 1934 with an eminent classical musician in then Bombay. On the basis that a rāga performed at a [...]

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Michael W. Morse Twenty Years After: A Review Essay of Musicological Identities (1) Steven Baur, Raymond Knapp, and Jacqueline C. Warwick (eds) Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan McClary (Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009) (2) i It has been nearly twenty years since the publication of Susan McClary’s provocative Feminine Endings. The appearance [...]

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The Society for Ethnomusicology 2009 Meeting Call for Proposals The Society for Ethnomusicology will hold its 54th annual meeting on November 19-22, 2009, in Mexico City, hosted by Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical Carlos Chavez del Instituto Nacional de los Artes; Escuela Nacional de Música, Universidad Autónoma de México; Escuela Superior de [...]

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