IASPM

International Association for the Study of Popular Music

Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945

Posted on August 30, 2010 by admin

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
Conference information and online registration: http://redstrains.blogspot.com/

Time Keeps on Slipping: Popular Music Histories – IASPM-US Annual Conference

Posted on August 4, 2010 by admin

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, will also be considered. Continue reading →