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 [...]

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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 [...]

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

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University of Alberta Faculty of Arts – 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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