Thinking With Jazz Symposium Lancaster University / Lancaster Jazz Festival‏ Friday 21 September 10am–5pm LICA Building Lancaster University This is a one-day symposium in which well-known jazz journalists, practitioners, and academics engage with issues of nationalism in jazz, the cultural politics of jazz, and the meaning of improvisation. This free event is informal and open [...]

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Call for papers Rewriting The Rules Of Production 8th Art of Record Production Conference 12-14 July 2013 Université Laval, Québec The conference panel invites proposals for papers on the following themes:

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Update IASPM 2012 (UK & Ireland) Conference 5-7 September 2012 University of Salford An update for those attending or interested in the 2012 conference at MediaCityUK, University of Salford, in September. 1. Programme. A DRAFT programme is now available for your perusal on the conference website. There are over 30 panels, over 100 papers, from [...]

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Call for papers Eighth Biennial International Conference in Music Since 1900‏ 12-15 September 2013 Liverpool Hope University The call for the Eighth Biennial International Conference in Music Since 1900, which will take place at Liverpool Hope University, 12-15 September 2013, is now open: http://www.hope.ac.uk/events/conferences/musicsince1900conference/

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Call for papers Oppositions: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference 28 and 29 September 2012 University of Salford This conference seeks to explore ideas of opposition through the full range of disciplines in the arts, media, and social sciences. In the context of the current crisis of capitalism, there are many examples of the forms ‘opposition’ can [...]

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2nd International Congress on Ambiances Ambiances in action Montréal Canada, 19-22 September 2012 The Congress will be held for four days at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), in Montreal, from 19 to 22 September 2012. It will seek to express advances in learning and new hypotheses proposed by the various disciplines and fields of [...]

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Call for papers Rhythm Changes II: Rethinking Jazz Cultures 11-14 April 2013 Media City UK/University of Salford An international conference hosted by the Rhythm Changes research project at the University of Salford. Keynote Speakers E. Taylor Atkins, Northern Illinois University David Ake, University of Nevada, Reno

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Call for papers 2012 IASPM-Norden Conference Popular Music and the Nordic Region in Global Dynamics Roskilde, Denmark 29-30 November 2012‏ Organized jointly by: – The Nordic branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) – ‘Popular Music in the Nordic Countries in the Early 21st Century’, a cross-sector project funded by [...]

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Call for papers The Afterlife of the Film Song: A One-Day Symposium The Victoria Rooms, Bristol 8 December 2012 University of the West of England, Bristol University of Bristol In association with The Soundtrack and Intellect Books Abstracts are invited for twenty-minute papers to be given as part of a one-day symposium on the afterlife [...]

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One-day workshop Musicians and Their Audiences King’s College London Saturday 1 December 2012 The musician/audience dichotomy has served as a constant subject of scrutiny for the sociocultural study of music practices. Both in ‘presentational’ and ‘participatory’ performances (Turino, 2008), the dynamic relationship between performing and being watched/heard has been central to the construction of music [...]

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