Music Theory / Jazz Artist Department of Theatre and Music University of Illinois at Chicago Deadline: 18 January 2013 The Department of Theatre and Music at the University of Illinois at Chicago seeks a distinguished jazz artist with strong teaching skills in the areas of theory and performance beginning August 2013. The position will be [...]

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Call for articles Music, Fashion and Style Special issue of Journal of Fashion, Style & Popular Culture Editor: Jessica Strubel This issue of Fashion, Style and Popular Culture will take an in-depth look at the interface of popular music and style in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The sartorial element of music subcultures is basic [...]

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Dancecult 4 (2) Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture http://dj.dancecult.net Dancecult Issue 4 (2) is now live.

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Call for papers Music and Environment Symposium University of Technology, Sydney Friday 26 April 2013 Music relates to different types of environmental transformations: social, economic, political, cultural or technological, while environmental changes can be heard in music and soundscapes. There has been an increase in academic discourse relating to the ecology of sound, or ‘green [...]

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Master class on media and communication studies perspectives on music consumption University of Roskilde, Denmark 15 October 2013 Organizers: Dr. Fabian Holt and the research program in Communication, Journalism and Performance Design at CBIT, Roskilde University This master class offers Ph.D. students working on music and media an opportunity to discuss their dissertation research in [...]

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New publication Music, Business and Law: Essays on contemporary trends in the music industry Edited by Antti-Ville Kärjä, Lee Marshall and Johannes Brusila IASPM-Norden & IIPC Available online at http://iipc.utu.fi/MBL/ and in print format early next year through IASPM-Norden (iaspmnorden.wordpress.com).

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Call for papers Functional Sounds: Auditory Culture and Sound Concepts in Everyday Life‏ Berlin, 4-6 October 2013 Information and call for papers can be found at http://www.soundstudies.eu/2013conference/ The conference is organised by Sound Studies Lab at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the international research network Sound in Media Culture, and European Sound Studies Association (ESSA).

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New book Out of the Absurdity of Life – Globale Musik Thomas Burkhalter and Theresa Beyer The first book of norient (network for local and global sounds and media culture – www.norient.com), edited by Thomas Burkhalter and Theresa Beyer, discusses contemporary movements and trends within globalised music scenes in Europe, Africa, Latin-America, Asia and the [...]

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Call for papers French Association for American Studies Conference 23-25 May 2013 Angers, France General Topic: Religion and Spirituality Popular Music Panel Topic: Religion and Blasphemy in Popular Music Though American popular music is more celebrated for its iconoclastic tendencies than its spiritual leanings, it welcomes the profane as much as the religious, the mundane [...]

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MA in Performance Studies Department of Performance Studies Texas A&M University The Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University is accepting applications for the Master of Arts degree in Performance Studies. Performance Studies scholars examine relationships between performance and culture. Our program emphasizes the ethnographic study of vernacular culture and the integration of practice [...]

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