The hunt for the worst sound in the world
Fingernails scraping down a blackboard… the scream of a baby… your neighbour’s dog barking: what is the worst sound in the world? This is what this website has been trying to find out:
Vote for the worst sound
Acoustic science is concerned with the production, transmission, manipulation and reception [...]

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Call for papers
Paper proposals are invited for an international, interdisciplinary conference on Text, Media and Improvisation, to be held at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on June 21 and 22, 2008. This conference is organized by members of an inter-university research project entitled Improvisation, Community and Social Practice.
While papers may touch on a wide [...]

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SLAS Conference
March 28-30
University of Liverpool
Call for papers
Music is a present element in the life of individuals living as part of communities and nations. Music in Latin America holds a rich variety of expressions originated within and outside the region. In an expansive trend of cultural globalisation, the study of music in its relationship to place [...]

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Call for papers
Music and the idea of the North
6-7 September 2008
Venue: Sullivan Room, Leeds Town Hall
A conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the opening of Leeds TownHall, hosted by: The Institute of Northern Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds University Centre for English Music (LUCEM), University of Leeds Leeds International Concert Season Opera North
On 6 [...]

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Call for contributors for an edited collection
Psytrance: Local Scenes and Global Culture
Edited by Graham St John
This volume seeks contributions to the study of psytrance (psychedelic trance) culture. In particular, it will feature research attending to psytrance as a product of intersecting local and global trajectories. International and interdisciplinary, the collection will host contributions from scholars [...]

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Royal Holloway
British Library Lectures in Musicology 2007/8
The 2007-8 lectures, ‘Rock and British Musical Culture 1955-2005′, will be delivered by Prof. Simon Frith (University of Edinburgh).
Sponsored by the Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London and supported by the British Library.
Lectures take place on the following Wednesdays from 6 pm to 7 pm at the [...]

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New Publication Series on Popular Culture
Vol 1. History of Stardom Reconsidered
The International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC) is happy to announce the launching of a new refereed online series on popular culture. It publishes monographs, edited collections and conference proceedings, and it is open for all scholars of the field.
The first volume History of Stardom [...]

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Call for Papers
… alles hat seine Zeit
(All things have their season)
Age and Ageing in Popular Music
19th Conference of the Arbeitskreis Studium Populärer Musik
(the German Association for the Study of Popular Music ASPM)
31st October – 2nd November 2008 in Akademie Remscheid near Cologne, Germany
Remember ‘Hope I die before I get old’ – that supposed pop consensus [...]

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