Call for papers 18-20 June 2012 Hotel Windsor, 111 Spring Street, Melbourne, Australia Conference Organisers: Associate Professor Shane Homan (Monash University, Professor Martin Cloonan (University of Glasgow), Dr Jennifer Cattermole (Otago University) Keynote Speaker: Professor John Street, University of East Anglia

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The School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol will be offering a postgraduate research scholarship for a new Home (UK or EU) student for September 2012 entry. The scholarship will offer funding for three years to cover tuition fees and a maintenance stipend equivalent to RCUK rates. We invite [...]

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Call for papers Music and the Moving Image VII Conference New York University, 1-3 June, 2012 The annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music, sound, and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, video games, iPod, computer, and interactive performances) through paper presentations. [...]

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Sounds of the City IASPM-US Annual Conference Jointly held with 2012 EMP Pop Conference presented by NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music New York City, March 22-25, 2012 Charlie Gillett’s pioneering The Sound of the City declared, with its title, that the electrified roots music of Elvis and Little Richard was an urban synthesis: [...]

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An upcoming conference on popular music education ‘Rock and Roles’ conference Institute of Contemporary Music Performance London, England July 23 & 24, 2012

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A memorial service for Charles Hamm (1925-1911) will be held on Saturday, 3 December 2011, 3-5 p.m., Norwich Inn, Norwich, Vermont. Please RSVP if you expect to attend, to Chris Hamm at jcsong@u.washington.edu. If you cannot attend, but would like to enter words into the memorial register, please send them to Chris (jcsong@u.washington.edu) or mail them [...]

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New York University Abu Dhabi campus NYU Abu Dhabi currently seeks a number of dynamic and creative music scholars and scholar-practitioners to teach within and across the disciplines of musicology/ethnomusicology, theory/composition, performance, and music technology/new media.  The successful candidate(s) will have a record of significant achievement in one or more of the above areas, an [...]

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Call for contributions On the back of his published diary (A Year with Swollen Appendices, Faber 1996) Brian Eno describes himself variously as: a mammal, a father, an artist, a celebrity, a pragmatist, a computer- user, an interviewee, and a ‘drifting clarifier’. To this list we might add rock star (on the first two Roxy [...]

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A personal tribute by Philip Tagg Charles Hamm, founder member of IASPM and distinguished music scholar, died on 16 October 2011. He will be sorely missed. I was delighted when, in 1981, Charles agreed to deliver a paper at the first IASPM international conference in Amsterdam. And what a paper it was! If only we’d paid [...]

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Call for papers 10th-13th September 2012 Faculty of Music, University of Oxford Conference theme Improvisation is arguably the most widely distributed form of musical practice – and yet remains the least studied or understood. Indeed, even the boundaries of what is or is not regarded as improvisation remain unclear. This conference will address the many [...]

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