New book
Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance
Graham St John

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Call for papers
Midwest Graduate Music Consortium
Seventeenth Annual Meeting, 12-13 April 2013, The University of Chicago

The Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (MGMC) is a joint venture organized by graduate students from Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, that encourages the presentation of original research in music and related fields by graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Conferences are held annually on a rotating basis, at Madison, Chicago, or Evanston. [Read more →]

Call for papers
Music And Labour
IASPM-Canada 30th Annual Conference
McMaster University
23-26 May 2013

A reminder that the deadline for proposals for the IASPM-Canada 30th Annual Conference is 31 October. Please see the original CFP post for further details.

IASPM D-A-CH
Our new branch for Germany, Austria and Switzerland‏
http://www.iaspm-dach.net

It is a great pleasure to us to inform you all about the foundation of an IASPM branch for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. [Read more →]

Call for papers
Rhythm Changes II: Rethinking Jazz Cultures
11-14 April 2013
Media City UK/University of Salford

A reminder that the deadline for proposals for the Rethinking Jazz Cultures Conference is 5 November. Please see the original CFP post for further details.

Call for papers
Liminality & Borderlands
2013 IASPM-US Annual Conference
Austin, Texas
28 February–3 March 2013

A reminder that the deadline for proposals for the 2013 IASPM-US Annual Conference is Thursday 1 November. Please see the original CFP post for further details.

Number 16
TRANS – Revista Transcultural de Música (Transcultural Music Review)
http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/

Number 16 of TRANS – Revista Transcultural de Música (Transcultural Music Review) for 2012 is now available. [Read more →]

Call for papers
Southern Sounds/Out of Bounds: Music and the Global American South
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://globalsouth.unc.edu

Southern Sounds/Out of Bounds: Music and the Global American South aims to bring together graduate students, faculty, independent scholars, and a broader public audience to share current research on the culture, meaning, and practices surrounding music in and from the Global American South. The two-day conference will consider musical import/export, musical manifestation of changing populations, musical meaning contextualized by regional history and contemporary politics, and musical transgressions of boundaries or borders in region, style, genre, and identity. [Read more →]

Principal Lecturer
Division of Media Arts and Production
University of Bedfordshire

The University of Bedfordshire is looking for a senior academic who will become the Portfolio Leader for the undergraduate courses/programmes in the Division of Media Arts and Production. Please note that there are two Music Technology courses in this Division, so a background in Music Technology or related disciplines is also suitable.

- £46,846 – £52,706 per annum
- Closing date: 2 November 2012

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/jobs_jobdetails.asp?ac=97461

http://www.beds.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/academic/principal-lecturer-in-media-arts-ref-no-accm4035

Call for papers and new publications
Volume!

Volume! and the Editions Mélanie Seteun are pleased to announce the following events:

I. Publications:
Sheila Whiteley (ed.) “Popular Music and Countercultures” issues of Volume! will be out in November and February.

An English version edited by Sheila Whiteley and Jedediah Sklower will be published in 2013 by Ashgate, with an introduction by Andy Bennett. More information soon.

Stéphane Dorin (ed.), Sound Factory. Music and Industrialization with texts from Jeremy Deller, Patrick Mignon, Simon Frith, Gérôme Guibert, David Hesmondhalgh, Philippe Bouquillion. More information.

II. Call for papers:

“Changing the Tune: Popular Music & Politics in the 21st Century From the Fall of Communism to the Arab Spring”

International Conference – Strasbourg University, France – 7-8 June 2013 [Read more →]