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Developing Pedagogies of Punk‏

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Call for chapters
Developing Pedagogies of Punk
Deadline: 6 January 2014

Developing curriculums and pedagogical approaches to the teaching of punk music is a poorly investigated area within music in higher education. The growing capability for institutions to develop programmes in these popular music areas have led to an appropriation of traditional teaching methods in some areas and innovative ground-breaking processes in others. The aim of this edited volume is to capture the contemporary thinking and doing of teaching practitioners around the world exploring their practice as punk pedagogues. Continue reading →

UK Popular Music Pedagogy Workshop

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UK Popular Music Pedagogy Workshop
24 January 2014
University of Edinburgh

The Higher Education Academy and IASPM (UK and Ireland branch) are sponsoring a one day workshop on Popular Music Pedagogy. The workshop takes place at the University of Edinburgh on Friday 24 January 2014. Registration is free but space is limited so book now to avoid disappointment. A programme for the day and registration details are available here.

IASPM-Canada 31st Annual Conference

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Call for papers
IASPM-Canada 31st Annual Conference
Université Laval
, Québec
23-25 May 2014

This year’s conference will take place at Université Laval in Quebec City. Founded in 1663, Laval is the oldest francophone university in North America and one of Canada’s leading research institutions. The university provides easy access to Quebec City with its stimulating combination of historic architecture and a vibrant and diverse cultural life. Continue reading →

Louder Than Words: The Festival of Popular Music Writing

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Louder Than Words: The Festival of Popular Music Writing
The Palace Hotel, Manchester (opp. The Cornerhouse)
15-17 November 2013
http://louderthanwordsfest.com

The event celebrates popular music and the written word through books and magazines, histories and biographies, fanzines and blogs, plays and poetry, publishing and film, and explores the past, present and future of the field through panels, discussions, interviews and performances. Continue reading →

The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema‏

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Call for chapters
The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema‏
Diane Hughes & Mark Evans (Eds.)

The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema will be the seventh volume in the Genre, Music and Sound series (Equinox Publishing). Equinox’s Genre, Music and Sound series extends the discipline of screen soundtrack studies by addressing a series of popular international film genres as they have developed in the post-War era (1945-present); analyzing the variety and shared patterns of music and sound use that characterize each genre. This seventh volume will focus on the singing voice in contemporary cinema from 1945 to the present day, and rather than being restricted to one particular genre, will consider how the singing voice has helped define and/or confuse genre classification. Continue reading →

Midwest Graduate Music Consortium‏

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Call for papers
Midwest Graduate Music Consortium 2014
11-12 April 2014
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Music

The 18th annual meeting of the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (MGMC) will be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on 11-12 April 2014. Tamara Levitz (UCLA) will serve as the keynote speaker. 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 and the composition of new music by graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Continue reading →

Jobs in Copenhagen

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Assistant Professorship and Professorship in Musicology
Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
University of Copenhagen

Assistant professorship in musicology
Applications are invited from scholars who work on historical source materials in theoretically and methodologically innovative ways. We interpret “historical source materials” in the broadest sense of the term, i.e. from any era or geographical area. Possible fields of research may include, but are not limited to: Western or non-Western art music, popular music, and jazz. Applicants whose work crosses borders between such categories are also encouraged to apply.

Professorship in musicology
There will be a preference for candidates primarily researching relationships between music and media, in relation to multi-media, to the role of music in different media, to sound studies, or as part everyday life, the avant-garde or popular music.

Cultural Appropriation in the Age of Social Media

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Call for papers
Cultural Appropriation in the Age of Social Media
African Studies Association UK’s Biennial Conference (ASAUK)
University of Sussex
9-11 September 2014

In recent years, social media have played a significant role in catapulting relatively obscure artists or cultural phenomena to international fame, seemingly overnight. The promise of Web 2.0 is that anyone with access to the Internet can find audiences and markets. The spontaneous uptake of memes on social media platforms seems to prove this. Likewise, we have seen South African bands, such as Die Antwoord, rise to fame via social media. Continue reading →

Race & Place in Hip-Hop Beyond the US

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Race & Place in Hip-Hop Beyond the US
African Studies Association UK’s Biennial Conference (ASAUK)
University of Sussex
9-11 September 2014

Hip-hop’s appeal beyond the US has been well documented by recent scholarship and documentaries. Despite the global uptake of hip-hop by a range of musicians, dancers and visual artists, mainstream media tend to focus upon commercial hip-hop from the US almost exclusively. Continue reading →

Metal and Marginalisation

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Call for papers
Metal and Marginalisation: Gender, Race, Class and Other Implications for Hard Rock and Metal‏
Centre for Women’s Studies and the International Society of Metal Music Scholars
University of York, UK
11 April 2014

Since the rising dawn of metallectualism, heavy metal scholars have acknowledged metal’s capacity to creatively explore forms of individualism, alterity and otherness. Further, metal frequently casts itself as a marginalised group in mainstream society, with fans and musicians often revelling in their outsider status which is reinforced by references to non-conforming traits (Satanism, for example). Continue reading →