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 papers Northumbria University in conjunction with the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster 27-28 June 2012 Ireland and Britain share in large measure a common, if disputed, history. Ireland is, of course, a former colony of Britain, and Northern Ireland is still part of the United Kingdom so that one [...]

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Call for papers Shifting Sounds: Musical Flow IASPM-ANZ 2012 Conference‏ University of Tasmania, Hobart 5-7 December 2012 We are delighted to announce the call for papers for the 2012 annual conference of IASPM-ANZ. This year, the conference will be organized by Dr Michelle Phillipov, and held at the University of Tasmania. We are pleased to [...]

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Goldsmiths Popular Music Research Units presents An Altered State: Terror, Music and War Games – Oslo, 22 July 2011 Professor Stan Hawkins, Birgitte Sandve and Karl-Magnus Bjorøy, University of Oslo, Norway Small Hall Cinema, Richard Hoggart Building Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross SE14 6NW Thursday 26 April 2.30pm Prior to the bombing of the [...]

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Call for submissions Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture Doing Fieldwork in Nightlife Scenes and EDMCs Guest editor: Luis-Manuel Garcia http://dj.dancecult.net/ This special edition of Dancecult seeks to address the fact that, although many EDM (Electronic Dance Music) projects have a significant ethnographic component, there are few methodological resources available to ethnographers of EDM [...]

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Call for submissions IASPM Journal November 2012 Popular Music Studies in the Twenty-First Century It is thirty years since the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) was founded and the journal Popular Music was launched. Although much is different today in popular music studies, the field still faces a number of challenges, [...]

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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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South African College of Music (SACM) Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town The South African College of Music within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town, South Africa is expanding its Music Technology training programme to a four-year undergraduate major within a BMus degree and wishes to establish a full-time permanent [...]

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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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