Please note there has been a change of date for the upcoming IASPM UK and Ireland 2012 Conference. The new date is 5-7 September 2012 (previously 7-9 September). Please see the original CFP posting for further details.

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Call for submissions Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture Special Issue on Race and Ethnicity in Cultural Production Editors: David Hesmondhalgh and Anamik Saha Within media and cultural studies, questions of race and cultural difference in popular culture have tended to be explored through textual analysis, in relation to what Stuart Hall [...]

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Call for papers 4-5 May 2012 Venue TBC, Leeds A conference to mark the start of a new AHRC-funded initiative: the Live Music Exchange, a knowledge transfer project emerging from three years of wide-ranging research into the social, cultural, historical and economic dimensions of live music. For more information about the Live Music Exchange, please [...]

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University of Huddersfield Lecturer in music and the moving image The ideal person will have teaching skills that would cover popular music as well as some area of music and the moving image. This may be theory, practice, or a mix of the two. Further information: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADY556/senior-lecturer-in-music-technology-music-

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This is posted on behalf of Dave Sanjek’s family. Dear Family & Friends, A campus-wide memorial service for Professor David Sanjek will be held on Thursday, February 23 from 11 am to 2 pm at the University of Salford in Salford, England. David passed away on November 29, 2011 in New York while en route to [...]

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Texas State University offers a 36-hour Master of Music degree with emphases in either Latin Music Performance or Latin Music Education, and tracks in either Mariachi or Salsa music. The program includes specialized courses in Salsa and Mariachi arranging, vocal and instrumental techniques, ensembles, and history and research. For degree plans, media, and info on [...]

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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 papers Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Challenging Orthodoxies IASPM 17th Biennial Conference 24-28 June 2013 Universidad de Oviedo Place: Gijón, Spain The popular music studies field in all its inter-disciplinarity has been characterised by encounter, dialogue and exchange, and also by tension. Our title ‘Bridge Over Troubled Waters’ takes the triple metaphor of bridge, [...]

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Call for chapters Virtual Bands, Virtual Music Deadline for proposals: 31 May 2012 Shara Rambarran and Sheila Whiteley are seeking contributions from the wide spectrum of musicology and social sciences for an edited text on Virtual Bands, Virtual Music that will reflect upon its origins, its characters, its music(s), its scattered identity, its legacy, its [...]

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Details on this year’s joint IASPM-US and EMP Pop Conference, “Sounds of the City,” which is being held March 22 – 25 at NYU’s Kimmel Center, can now be found at the EMP website, including bios and abstracts for almost 300 presenters from many backgrounds. Registration is completely free, so please attend if you can.

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