Norient Academic Online Journal Vol. 1, 2012 New issue now available The peer-reviewed Norient Academic Online Journal is an online journal which appears once a year and focuses on the study of popular music from an ethnographic perspective.

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Rock and Popular Music in Ireland: Before and After U2 Noel McLaughlin, University of Northumbria and Martin McLoone, University of Ulster Foreword by Dave Laing Irish Academic Press This book explores Irish rock’s relationship to the wider world of international popular music through detailed analysis of the island’s most prominent artists and bands such as [...]

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IASPM@Journal Vol 2/1&2 Published: 29 February, 2012 “State of the Nation: Review(s) of Popular Music Studies” Special Issue Editor: Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa The second volume, State of the Nation: Review(s) of Popular Music Studies, specially edited by Martha Ulhôa during her Visiting Research Fellowship at King’s College, London, addresses the state of popular music [...]

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Call for nominations IASPM-Canada Book Prize Deadline for nominations: 1 April 2012 The International Association for the Study of Popular Music-Canada Branch (IASPM-Canada) requests your nominations for the most distinguished monograph in popular music studies, or with substantial content related to popular music studies, that has been written by a Canadian author, or published by [...]

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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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