International Reggae: Traditional and Emerging Expressions in Popular Music University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica 14-16 February 2013 The Institute of Caribbean Studies and the Reggae Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona announce the third International Reggae Conference (formerly Global Reggae Conference) under the theme “Traditional and Emerging Expressions [...]

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42nd World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music 11-17 July 2013 Shanghai Conservatory of Music Deadline for all abstract submissions: 7 September 2012 The Program Committee, Local Arrangements Committee, and Secretariat for the 2013 ICTM World Conference have recently received a number of questions from potential participants concerning multiple presentations. Simply put, a [...]

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42nd World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music 11-17 July 2013 Shanghai Conservatory of Music Deadline for all abstract submissions: 7 September 2012 The conference themes are: • Presentation and Representation in Minority Musics and Dance • Rethinking, Reconstructing, and Reinventing Musical Pasts • Ethnomusicology, Ethnochoreology, and Education • Ritual, Religion, and the [...]

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Perspectives on Musical Improvisation 10-13 September 2012 University of Oxford We have a small number of places still available at the conference, and so if you were interested in joining the event or had missed previous announcements, we would encourage you to book sooner rather than later. The conference brings together a rich set of [...]

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Music and Movement 2012 National Graduate Student Conference, British Forum for Ethnomusicology 12-14 September 2012 Institute for Music Research (IMR), London WC1 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Bull, University of Sussex People and music are always moving. Whether across the dance floor, across town, or across borders, neither rests. Sometimes this movement is intentional, other times [...]

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Call for papers ‘This is the Modern World’: For a Social History of Rock Music International Conference University Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3 (Lille, France) 13-15 June 2013 In Anglo-American countries, the history of rock music has been institutionalized since the 1970s, notably in musicology and cultural studies departments. In France, on the contrary, it has been [...]

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Call for papers Fourteenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association 20-23 June 2013 Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan Submission Deadline: 1 November 2012 Convention Coordinators: Corey Anton (antonc@gvsu.edu) Grand Valley State University Valerie V. Peterson (petersov@gvsu.edu) Grand Valley State University Grand Valley is happy to host the Media Ecology Association’s Fourteenth Annual [...]

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Call for papers Liminality & Borderlands 2013 IASPM-US Annual Conference Austin, Texas 28 February–3 March 2013 Crossover stars, vampires and zombies, gender-bending divas and divos, international sensations who truck cultural ideas across borders: popular music and culture are full of performers and characters who move through and effectively occupy zones of “in-betweenness”, carrying signifiers of [...]

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Call for papers Music And Labour IASPM-Canada 30th Annual Conference McMaster University 23-26 May 2013 From the earliest days of academic popular music studies, concepts of labour have been of paramount importance both for their intellectual richness and for their ability to link academic practices with broader patterns of social and political action. More recently, [...]

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New Zealand Musicological Society Conference Voyages of Discovery 30 November-2 December 2012 The University of Auckland School of Music, New Zealand Keynote speakers: James Webster (Cornell University) Patricia Sheehan Campbell (The University of Washington) This conference seeks to investigate and promote the breaking of new ground within and between our fields of music study: musicology, [...]

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