Call for papers Researching Music Censorship University of Copenhagen, Denmark 6-8 June 2013 Deadline: 6 February 2013 Music censorship is a relatively new area of research and as a scholarly field of study it is a disputed issue. This is so because it involves a large range of intertwined components and because in discourses over [...]

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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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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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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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Call for papers Severn Pop Network Inaugural Conference The Small Economies of the ‘New’ Music Industry University of Bristol 25 March 2013 The music industry is in a well-publicised state of upheaval. The emergence of digital reproductive technologies (such as CD burners and MP3s), of digital distribution and consumption technologies (such as the iPod, iTunes [...]

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Call for papers Music and Environment Symposium University of Technology, Sydney Friday 26 April 2013 (tbc) 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 [...]

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Club Health Conference on Nightlife & Substance Use San Francisco 28-30 May 2013 The Club Health Conference on Nightlife & Substance Use will be invading San Francisco 28-30 May 2013. This will be the 8th annual gathering and the first time this event will take place in the United States. Come join us to present, [...]

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Call for papers Changing the Tune Popular Music & Politics in the 21st Century from the Fall of Communism to the Arab Spring Strasbourg University, France 7-8 June 2013 Popular Music scholars have devoted considerable attention to the relationship between music and power. The symbolic practices through which subcultures state and reinforce identities have been [...]

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Call for papers Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture Modes of Mobility: Popular Culture in an Age of Technology 8 – 10 February 2013 Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio To build on the success of the First Annual Ray Browne Conference, and usher in the fortieth year of the Popular Culture Department at [...]

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Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre 2012 Research Festival 19-22 November 2012 South Bank, Brisbane, Australia This is a FREE public event open to all local, national and international academics, students, organisations and individual participants with a keen interest in music research and practice. Download the event flyer and program for more information.

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