New issue
Screen Sound: The Australasian Journal of Soundtrack Studies
Number 3, 2012: Songs on the Soundtrack
Now available open-access online

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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 widely documented (mainly in the field of Cultural, Gender and Postcolonial Studies), as has the increasingly political and revolutionary dimensions of popular music. Most studies have focused on the genres and movements that developed with and in the aftermath of the 1960s counterculture. Yet little has been written about how the politics of popular music has reflected the social, geopolitical and technological changes of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, after the fall of Communism. [Read more →]

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 Bowling Green State University, the Popular Culture Scholars Association at BGSU would like to invite any and all students (undergraduates and graduate), scholars, critics, former members of the POPC program and friends of the department to join us for the Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture to be held February 8 through February 10 2013, on the campus of Bowling Green State University. [Read more →]

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.

Call for articles
Grainger Studies
Issue #3

Submissions are now sought for issue #3 (to be published in 2013) of Grainger Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Please download the flyer for details. [Read more →]

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Music
School of Music, Research School of Humanities and the Arts
College of Arts and Social Sciences
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT, Australia

Situated in a magnificent purpose-built building in the heart of Australia’s leading research University, the ANU School of Music is seeking Lecturers and Senior Lecturers in Music who have an emerging or established record of research and research-led teaching and performance. [Read more →]

Journal on the Art of Record Production
Publication of Issue 7‏: Technology, Time and Place
www.arpjournal.com

We are pleased to announce the online publication of Issue 7: Technology, Time and Place

The issue opens with Dr. Mark Katz and Dr. Samantha Bennett’s editorial and includes: 10 articles; Ken Scott, Kevin Doyle and Dave Fisher interviews; a review of Allan Moore’s new book Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Popular Recorded Song; and a review of Ken Scott’s EpiK DrumS – A Ken Scott Collection.

Read more at www.arpjournal.com

Rosalind Franklin Fellowship
Theatre Studies or Music Studies
University of Groningen, the Netherlands‏

We would like to draw your attention to the Rosalind Franklin Fellowships, a special tenure track programme for talented women scholars at the University of Groningen. The Department of Arts, Culture and Media is currently seeking a specialist either in Theatre Studies, preferably in combination with new media, or in Music Studies (popular music, ethnomusicology). These Fellowships offer short-term tenure track positions with limited teaching assignments. [Read more →]

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

The deadline for submissions to the conference has been extended to 15 November. Please see the original CFP post for further details.

Call for papers
The Cultural Memory of Sound and Space
The 17th Finnish Music Researchers’ Symposium
Turku
13–15 March 2013‏

The myriad forms of music and modes of musical performance on offer today have prompted debate about the materials and methods of music research. Uses of music in different media, for example, raise questions about the relationship between music and space. In addition, new interpretations have been offered about the boundaries between music and sound. The temporal dimension, too, has garnered the attention of researchers; particularly how time is bound up with musical cultures and experiences of music. [Read more →]