Call for papers ‘This is the Modern World’: For a Social History of Rock Music International Conference University Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3 (Lille, France) 13-15 June 2013 In Anglo-American countries, the history of rock music has been institutionalized since the 1970s, notably in musicology and cultural studies departments. In France, on the contrary, it has been [...]

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Call for papers Fourteenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association 20-23 June 2013 Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan Submission Deadline: 1 November 2012 Convention Coordinators: Corey Anton (antonc@gvsu.edu) Grand Valley State University Valerie V. Peterson (petersov@gvsu.edu) Grand Valley State University Grand Valley is happy to host the Media Ecology Association’s Fourteenth Annual [...]

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Call for papers Liminality & Borderlands 2013 IASPM-US Annual Conference Austin, Texas 28 February–3 March 2013 Crossover stars, vampires and zombies, gender-bending divas and divos, international sensations who truck cultural ideas across borders: popular music and culture are full of performers and characters who move through and effectively occupy zones of “in-betweenness”, carrying signifiers of [...]

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Call for papers Music And Labour IASPM-Canada 30th Annual Conference McMaster University 23-26 May 2013 From the earliest days of academic popular music studies, concepts of labour have been of paramount importance both for their intellectual richness and for their ability to link academic practices with broader patterns of social and political action. More recently, [...]

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Call for papers Rewriting The Rules Of Production 8th Art of Record Production Conference 12-14 July 2013 Université Laval, Québec The conference panel invites proposals for papers on the following themes:

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Call for papers Eighth Biennial International Conference in Music Since 1900‏ 12-15 September 2013 Liverpool Hope University The call for the Eighth Biennial International Conference in Music Since 1900, which will take place at Liverpool Hope University, 12-15 September 2013, is now open: http://www.hope.ac.uk/events/conferences/musicsince1900conference/

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Call for papers Oppositions: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference 28 and 29 September 2012 University of Salford This conference seeks to explore ideas of opposition through the full range of disciplines in the arts, media, and social sciences. In the context of the current crisis of capitalism, there are many examples of the forms ‘opposition’ can [...]

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Call for papers Rhythm Changes II: Rethinking Jazz Cultures 11-14 April 2013 Media City UK/University of Salford An international conference hosted by the Rhythm Changes research project at the University of Salford. Keynote Speakers E. Taylor Atkins, Northern Illinois University David Ake, University of Nevada, Reno

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Call for papers 2012 IASPM-Norden Conference Popular Music and the Nordic Region in Global Dynamics Roskilde, Denmark 29-30 November 2012‏ Organized jointly by: – The Nordic branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) – ‘Popular Music in the Nordic Countries in the Early 21st Century’, a cross-sector project funded by [...]

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Call for papers The Afterlife of the Film Song: A One-Day Symposium The Victoria Rooms, Bristol 8 December 2012 University of the West of England, Bristol University of Bristol In association with The Soundtrack and Intellect Books Abstracts are invited for twenty-minute papers to be given as part of a one-day symposium on the afterlife [...]

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