University of Maryland School of Music Faculty vacancy in ethnomusicology: beginning August 2012 Position: Ethnomusicologist Rank and salary: Assistant Professor, tenure track; salary commensurate with experience. Qualifications: Ph.D. in ethnomusicology or related field; strong background in both cultural anthropology and historical musicology; fieldwork experience; evidence or promise of excellence in research, undergraduate and graduate teaching, [...]

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A one-day postgraduate conference to be held at the British Library, Friday 18th November 2011, 9.30-5.00 sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, in partnership with the British Library. Keynote speakers: Professor Martin McQuillan, Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis, Kingston University; David Cross, freelance artist and [...]

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Call for papers A Symposium organized by the Sound Studies Group, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art & Culture Carleton University, Ottawa March 9 – 11, 2012 Keynote speakers: Dr. Jonathan Sterne (McGill University), Dr. Tim J. Anderson (Old Dominion University) This conference is about the history and significance of stereo sound reproduction in [...]

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Call for contributions Edited by Simone Krüger (Liverpool John Moores University) and Ruxandra Trandafoiu (Edge Hill University) We are soliciting chapter proposals for an edited collection entitled The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Musical Migration and Tourism to be published by Routledge in 2013 in its Research in Ethnomusicology Series. (Please note that the book [...]

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Call for papers Sounding the Nation? Diaspora, Indigeneity, and Multiculturalism IASPM-Canada Annual Conference Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia June 14 – 17, 2012 What does a critical examination of diaspora offer to our understanding of popular music in the multicultural settler nation of Canada? Over the past twenty years, the term diaspora has proliferated as [...]

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Call for contributions Popular Music in the Nordic Countries: Music, Identity, and Social Change in the Early 21st Century Editors: Fabian Holt (University of Roskilde, fabianh@ruc.dk) and Antti-Ville Kärjä (University of Turku, avkarj@utu.fi) For the Routledge series World Popular Music, we are hereby making a call for chapter proposals for a volume with the title [...]

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Call for contributions In recent years, the internet in general and social media in particular has fundamentally changed our media culture. The relationship between producers and consumers has shifted, creating new power relationships. Media culture has become more and more about participation, while technological developments such as ‘Facebook liking’ have further blurred the traditional distinction [...]

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Call for contributions Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales nº3 http://transposition-revue.org Queer theory is likely one of the most well-known and controversial recent schools of thought, and its impact has been felt in the academic world and beyond. It appeared in the early 1990s in the United States, as a direct offshoot of LGBT (lesbian, gay, [...]

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Taipei, 2012 July 13 (Fri) – 15 (Sun), 2012, featuring Postgraduate Sessions on July 13 We are pleased to announce the 3rd Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies (IAPMS) Conference, which will take place on July 13-15, 2012 in Taipei, in collaboration with the Department of Psychology at Fu Jen Catholic University and the Graduate Institute of Mass [...]

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The 2011 IASPM Book Prize Co-ordinated by Antti-Ville Kärjä Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand The 2011 IASPM prize for a book written in English is awarded to Protest Music in France by Barbara Lebrun. The 2011 IASPM Book Prize for a book written in a language other than English is awarded to Creating the Myth of [...]

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