Music, Politics and Agency Seminar 3: Sonic Radicalism 23 May 2012 13:00-17:00 University of East London, Docklands Campus Room EB.1.03 (directions below) Can sound subvert? Thinkers since Plato have assumed that it can, that social form and musical form are intrinsically linked, resonant, or pre-figurative of each other. In this seminar, leading and innovative thinkers [...]

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Call for papers Shifting Sounds: Musical Flow IASPM-ANZ 2012 Conference‏ University of Tasmania, Hobart 5-7 December 2012 The deadline for the call for papers for the IASPM-ANZ 2012 Conference has been extended to 28 May. See original posting for further details.

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Extended call for papers 13-14 September 2012 University of Leeds The deadline for proposals has been extended to Monday 14 May 2012. These should include the title of the conference paper, an abstract of 200 words, and your name, institution, a brief bio-bibliography and contact details. Individual papers should be no more than 20 minutes [...]

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Call for papers Symposium: Spanish Musics and their [Western] Others: Negotiating Identity and Exoticism 7–8 December 2012 University of Melbourne, Australia Western Music and entertainment have drawn on features of Spanish music and dance since at least the Napoleonic wars. In turn, constructions of musical exoticism based on Hispanic tropes have informed different manifestations of [...]

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Call for papers International Conference on Music Semiotics in Memory of Raymond Monelle Establishing New Musical ‘Topics’ in the Repertoire and Popular Culture University of Edinburgh Music Department, United Kingdom 26-28 October 2012 The Department of Music at The University of Edinburgh presents an international conference on Music Semiotics in memory of Professor Raymond Monelle, [...]

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Call for papers – extended to May 2 2012 Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Challenging Orthodoxies IASPM 17th Biennial Conference 24-28 June 2013 Universidad de Oviedo Place: Gijón, Spain The IASPM Executive have decided to extend the submission deadline for the Gijón Conference to May 2 2012. Be aware that this is the last date for [...]

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Live Music Exchange, Leeds: Interesting Times for Local Live Music Venue Bar Meeting Room, Leeds College of Music, Leeds Friday 4th – Saturday 5th May 2012 The focus of the event is the problems of local live music promotion in the current global economic crisis. Our conference runs in conjunction with the Live @ Leeds [...]

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Cultures of Popular Music Seminar Programme 2012, Brisbane A series of fortnightly seminars supported by Griffith University’s Centre for Cultural Research All sessions are free of charge and will take place between 6.30 – 8.00 pm. Venue will be the S07 2.19 in the Griffith Graduate Centre. Refreshments will be available. And we tend to go [...]

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Call for papers Northumbria University in conjunction with the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster 27-28 June 2012 Ireland and Britain share in large measure a common, if disputed, history. Ireland is, of course, a former colony of Britain, and Northern Ireland is still part of the United Kingdom so that one [...]

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Call for papers Shifting Sounds: Musical Flow IASPM-ANZ 2012 Conference‏ University of Tasmania, Hobart 5-7 December 2012 We are delighted to announce the call for papers for the 2012 annual conference of IASPM-ANZ. This year, the conference will be organized by Dr Michelle Phillipov, and held at the University of Tasmania. We are pleased to [...]

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