New book Ageing and Youth Cultures: Music, Style and Identity Edited by Andy Bennett and Paul Hodkinson What happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies, break-dancers and queer scene participants as they become older? For decades, research on spectacular ‘youth cultures’ has understood such groups as adolescent phenomena and assumed that involvement ceases with [...]

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New journal issue ‘Erotic Screen & Sound’ A special edition of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 26(4) Edited by Jodie Taylor and David Baker Sexual desire and the intent to arouse—the erotic—is ubiquitous. Erotic impulses preoccupy our psyches, shape our identities, inscribe our bodies and mediate our relationships with others and objects. Proliferating [...]

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New book Redefining Mainstream Popular Music Edited by Sarah Baker, Andy Bennett and Jodie Taylor Redefining Mainstream Popular Music is a collection of seventeen essays that critically examines the idea of the “mainstream” in and across a variety of popular music styles and contexts. Notions of what is popular vary across generations and cultures – [...]

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New book Music, Style, and Aging: Growing Old Disgracefully? Andy Bennett The image of the aging rock-and-roller is not just Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger on stage in their sixties. In his timely book, Music, Style, and Aging, cultural sociologist Andy Bennett explains how people move on from youth and effectively grow older with popular [...]

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New book Music, Politics, and Violence Edited by Susan Fast and Kip Pegley Music and violence have been linked since antiquity in ritual, myth, and art. Considered together they raise fundamental questions about creativity, discourse, and music’s role in society. The essays in this collection investigate a wealth of issues surrounding music and violence – [...]

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Lecturer Screen Music Australian Film Television and Radio School Australia’s national screen arts and broadcast school Closes: 23 January 2013 Part-time – 5 days per fortnight; 3-Year contract; $67,575 to $92,844 pa (full-time equivalent) We are seeking a professional practitioner with experience in composing for the screen to take on this role combining teaching with [...]

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Call for chapters Beyond “No Future”: A German Punk Reader Edited by Mirko Hall, Seth Howes, and Cyrus Shahan Punk rock has had quite a decade. Exhibition catalogues, photographic retrospectives, CD box sets, and sold-out reunion tours attest to the central role punk continues to play in stories we tell about the ’70s and ’80s, [...]

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Call for papers Researching Music Censorship University of Copenhagen, Denmark 6-8 June 2013 Deadline: 6 February 2013 Music censorship is a relatively new area of research and as a scholarly field of study it is a disputed issue. This is so because it involves a large range of intertwined components and because in discourses over [...]

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Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Emergent Media Program in Media and Screen Studies Department of Art + Design Northeastern University The Program in Media and Screen Studies and the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University invite applications and nominations for a joint appointment as an Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Emergent [...]

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Director Center for Popular Music Middle Tennessee State University The Center for Popular Music is a major research facility at Middle Tennessee State University. There are more than one million items in the Center’s archives, including 200,000 sound recordings, over 100,000 pieces of sheet music, 11,000 photographs, one of America’s largest collection of songsheet broadsides, manuscripts, [...]

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