Popular Music Essay Competition

Posted on September 30, 2010 by admin

Entrants are invited for the new Popular Music Essay Competition.

Entrants should address the following theme:

Questioning popular music orthodoxies

Essays may engage with any established popular music orthodoxy (whether the assumptions of critics and scholars or the habits of music makers and their audiences). Essays should provoke debate about the established practice and study of popular music, and may propose new approaches and practices.

Popular Music

The winning essay will be published in Popular Music and the winner will receive £500.

The essay should be no longer than 3000 words and must be in the Popular Music house style (see the Popular Music website for details).

It should be submitted by September 15th 2011 to the Popular Music Editorial Group at: PMEssayCompetition@gmail.com

The essays will be judged by the Editorial Group and the International Advisory Board of Popular Music.

Jazz and the Media

Posted on September 15, 2010 by admin

Date: 15th October 2010
Time: 10:30am to 3:30pm
Location: School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BX

The Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, in partnership with Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham Jazz, is proud to present Jazz and the Media, a seminar featuring presentations from three internationally recognized authorities on jazz.

Mike Connolly is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over 10 years experience in factual and arts television production. Most recently he created the successful ‘Britannia’ brand for BBC4 including Jazz Britannia and Folk Britannia. Connolly started his career in television working on the arts magazine programme The Late Show as a Researcher and Assistant Producer. Continue reading →

UB40 Symposium

Posted on September 8, 2010 by admin

Call for Papers
Friday 18th March 2011.
Venue: Birmingham City University, UK.
Organizers: Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research in association with Birmingham Popular Music Archive.

UB40 in Birmingham

This year, the Birmingham-based band UB40 celebrates the 30th anniversary of the release of the album ‘Signing Off’. Continue reading →

Director needed for folkwaysAlive!

Posted on September 8, 2010 by admin

University of Alberta
Faculty of Arts – folkwaysAlive!

folkwaysAlive!

The University of Alberta is seeking a Director for folkwaysAlive!, the University’s partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in Washington DC. Providing a home for the over two thousand Folkways Records donated to the University by company founder Moses Asch, folkwaysAlive! builds on this valuable collection, houses a digital archive to document local and national community traditions, provides research opportunities, and presents public performances that relate to and enhance the Folkways philosophy and mission. Continue reading →

Simona Frasca (2001) Birds of passage. I musicisti napoletani a New York

Posted on September 3, 2010 by admin

Simona Frasca
Birds of passage. I musicisti napoletani a New York (1895-1940)
(Lucca: LIM 2010; language: Italian)
Review by Giovanni Vacca

There is no doubt that Neapolitan Song has been a central genre in the development of what we now call ‘Popular Music’: probably no other urban song has achieved such a world-wide notoriety and certainly Neapolitan Song helped to expand the myth and the appeal of the city of Naples itself pretty much everywhere. How many among us, though, know about that ‘branch’ of Neapolitan Song that happened to find its way up in the United States since the beginning of the 20th century? Continue reading →

Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945

Posted on August 30, 2010 by admin

British Academy, London, 13-15 January 2011
Keynote speakers: Prof Gianmario Borio (Pavia); Prof Georgina Born (Cambridge); Prof Anne Shreffler (Harvard)
Panel session: Konrad Boehmer; Henry Flynt; Giacomo Manzoni

Themed paper sessions include:

Communist Parties
Popular music
Folk song
The Black Panther Party
US-Soviet friendship
Soviet realism overseas
Communist nationalisms
Communism’s cultural legacy

Full programme: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/music/documents/communism-programme.pdf
Conference information and online registration: http://redstrains.blogspot.com/

Time Keeps on Slipping: Popular Music Histories – IASPM-US Annual Conference

Posted on August 4, 2010 by admin

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Chapter (IASPM-US) will hold its annual conference Mar. 9-13, 2011 in Cincinnati, OH, in a joint meeting with the Society for American Music.

We invite proposals for individual papers or panels of three or four presenters. Alternate presentation formats, such as lecture/performances and roundtable panels, will also be considered. Continue reading →

University of Oslo, Norway: Two top research posts in popular music

Posted on July 23, 2010 by admin

Faculty of Humanities
Department of Musicology

Oslo’s multi-purpose new Opera house

Scandinavia’s leading music department at the University of Oslo is announcing a number of research posts in popular music linked to the project ‘Popular Music & Gender in a Transcultural Context’, led by professor Stan Hawkins.

The first two appointments are a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship and a PhD post. Continue reading →

Wits University: Advertisement for two Music posts

Posted on July 14, 2010 by admin

Faculty of Humanities
Wits School of Arts
Music

Wits Music is distinctive in being the only university music department in Africa to be part of a School of Arts that includes television and film, drama, digital arts, fine arts, and arts, culture and heritage studies divisions: www.wits.ac.za/wsoa. The School is seeking to make two appointments from 1 January 2011 in the following areas, and we strongly encourage applicants from the designated groups. Continue reading →

SEM 2010 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles

Posted on July 2, 2010 by admin

The Society for Ethnomusicology will hold its 55th Annual Meeting on November 11-14, 2010, at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Titled ‘Sound Ecologies’, this year’s meeting features more than 400 presentations, as well as a variety of concerts and other special events. The meeting is hosted by UCLA, which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of its Ethnomusicology program. UCLA will present a pre-conference symposium, ‘Music Research and Performance in South Asia: The Life and Work of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy’, on November 10 at the Wilshire Grand.

LA skyline

Visit www.ethnomusicology.org for more information about the meeting, hotel accommodations, and online registration.