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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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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Call for papers Music and Media 28-29 June 2012 Università di Torino, Turin The IMS study group ‘Music and Media’ (MaM) will hold its fourth international meeting in Turin at the Università di Torino, as pre-conference to the IMS Rome 2012 conference. One of the themes will be ‘Unheard Melodies: 25 years’. This session will thematize [...]

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Call for papers The Third International Hisarli Ahmet Symposium on Music Perception 24-26 May 2012 Kütahya, Turkey Abstract submission deadline: 29 February 2012 Further information: http://www.hisas.org.tr/eng/kapsam.htm

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Call for papers Music, Methods and the Social: A Research Workshop May 17-18 2012 Curve Theatre, Leicester, UK Trying to understand music as a social form raises the issue of methods. This is partly because of the ubiquity and polyvalence of music, which penetrates all areas of the social world in multiple ways, making investigation [...]

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Call for papers You, Me, User – Conference on User-Generated Culture May 25 - May 26 2012 in Helsinki From social media to video games and from online fan production to machinima, the phenomenon of user-generated culture has secured its position in the mainstream during the last few years. This shift has resulted from the blurring boundaries [...]

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Call for papers Friday 22 June 2012 One-Day Symposium Binks Building, University of Chester, England Event organisers: Dr Chris Hart, Dr Mark Duffett and Dr Beate Peter From Cadillacs to tour buses, motor vehicles and popular music have developed in parallel as symbiotic commodities. Their intimate and intertwined relationship evokes issues and feelings that characterize [...]

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Call for papers 13-14 September 2012 University of Leeds The label singer-songwriter has been applied to a wide range of artists, including Joan Manuel Serrat, Paolo Conte, Véronique Sanson and John Lennon. The use of this and related terms (auteur-compositeur-interprète, cantautore and cantautor to name but three) and interpretations of the singer-songwriter’s work differ significantly [...]

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Reminder Call for papers 10th-13th September 2012 Faculty of Music, University of Oxford The programme committee has extended the call for papers deadline by one week.  The closing date is now Monday 16th January. Please send submissions to impconfsubmission@music.ox.ac.uk Submission guidelines and more details on the conference.

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Call for papers An international conference on Transformations in/of Broadcasting July 12-13 2012 Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds In association with The ECREA Media Industries and Cultural Production Temporary Working Group; The Media Industries Research Centre, University of Leeds; Centre for Digital Citizenship, University of Leeds. Confirmed speakers include Stephen Coleman, John Corner, [...]

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