Call for proposals 33 1/3 book series Bloomsbury Bloomsbury is thrilled to announce a call for new proposals for the acclaimed 33 1/3 book series, previously published by Continuum (Bloomsbury acquired Continuum in July 2011).

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Call for authors Rock, Pop and Culture Subjects for TEMPO Series Scarecrow Press (United States) is accepting proposals for book-length studies in English on rock, popular music, and culture for a new book series called TEMPO. “Drawing from the fields of culture studies, sociology, media studies, music history and literary studies, Tempo books will study [...]

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We are pleased to announce the relaunch of the Journal on the Art of Record Production website and issue 5 of JARP.  Aptly, the editorial, Change and Continuity: Transformations, Innovations and Tensions in the Art of Record Production, has been written by ARP 2010 conference hosts Robert Davis and Justin Morey of Leeds Metropolitan University.

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The Refereed Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Jazz Conference August 19–20 2010, Helsinki, Finland Edited by Janne Mäkelä Since its arrival on the public scene in the early 20th century, jazz has been characterised by a remarkable ability to cross musical, social and cultural borderlines. In terms of musical style and character, jazz has often [...]

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Sean Campbell ‘Irish Blood, English Heart’: Second-Generation Irish Musicians in England Cork University Press November 2011 (Paperback) ISBN: 9781859184905 Second-generation Irish musicians have played a vital role in the history of popular music in England. This book explores the role of Irish ethnicity in the lives and work of these musicians, focusing on three high-profile [...]

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Sounds of then, sounds of now Popular music in Australia Edited by Shane Homan and Tony Mitchell Hobart: ACYS Publishing, June 2008 In Sounds of then, sounds of now: Popular music in Australia some of the country’s most respected popular music researchers, musicians and music journalists document a range of past and present Australian sounds [...]

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The latest issue of Cultural Politics has just been published: The Voice of the People? Musicians as Political Actors Seth Hague, John Street, and Heather Savigny on Bob Geldof, Live 8 and the legacies of Rock Against Racism Making Space: Image-Events in an Extreme State Johanna Drucker asks whether in our image-saturated culture works of [...]

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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 [...]

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Sergio and I are pleased to announce a new group blog on (post) Soviet popular music: http://ps-popular-music.blogspot.com/ The blog is bilingual with posts both in Russian and English (or sometimes both – depending on the author). We define popular music in a broad sense, in other words anything from rock to pop.  Geographically we also [...]

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TRANS  11 (2007)  is on-line now with a special issue devoted to African music, that includes articles by Simha Arom, Polo Vallejo, Nathalie Fernando, Ruth M. Stone, Willie Anku, Leonardo D’Amico, Michelle Kisliuk, Kofi Agawu, Andrew L. Kaye y Marcos Branda Lacerda. This issue is matched with  some studies about the African influence in popular [...]

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