Australian Recording Sector Report Australia Council Associate Professor Shane Homan The Australia Council recently commissioned a report by IASPM member Associate Professor Shane Homan on the needs of the Australian recording sector, which you can find here.

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The hunt for the worst sound in the world Fingernails scraping down a blackboard… the scream of a baby… your neighbour’s dog barking: what is the worst sound in the world? This is what this website has been trying to find out: Vote for the worst sound Acoustic science is concerned with the production, transmission, [...]

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A new popular music research project in Finland The Starnet. Changing Discourses of Popular Music Stardom. This research project deals with the relationship between the star phenomenon and popular music. The main questions of the project are: How is popular music stardom constructed at specific historical moments? What kind of meanings popular music stars incorporate? [...]

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