Call for chapters
Jazz Under Totalitarian Regimes
Transnational Studies in Jazz Series
This is a call for proposals for essays on jazz under totalitarian regimes, to be proposed for publication in the new Routledge Transnational Studies in Jazz series. The chief editor will be Bruce Johnson. Continue reading
Sonic Signatures Symposium
9–11 April 2014
Deadline 1 November 2013
http://www.sss.musik.aau.dk
Sonic Signatures Symposium for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. Registration is free (subject to acceptance of application).
The Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production (ASARP) in collaboration with the European Sound Studies Association (ESSA) is pleased to announce the launch of its annual symposium series, the first of which explores Sonic Signatures. This is a unique opportunity to work with top international academics and recording industry professionals to develop the leading edge of scholarship in this crucial aspect of the analysis of recorded popular music. Over three intensive days you will workshop your own research topic in the context of some of the latest analytical approaches while at the same time being grounded in the practicalities of current creative practice. Continue reading
BEAM
Berlin Ethnomusicology and the Anthropology of Music Research Group
http://berlinethnomusicology.blogspot.de
BEAM is a Berlin-based research group dedicated to the ethnographic study of music. It welcomes local and international scholars and students of various disciplines interested in the social, cultural and political dimensions of music. The group meets Thursday evenings (6-8pm) once a month at different academic institutions around the city. By providing a forum for music scholars to engage in academic exchange, discuss current literature and disciplinary debates, and present recent research, it aims to strengthen a local ethnomusicology community across local Berlin academic institutions, to build connections to a wider international network of ethnomusicologists, and to increase the discipline’s visibility within and expand its impact on local musical, cultural and political life. Continue reading
Call for chapters
Sound in Canada: Environment, Technology, History
Deadline: 18 November 2013
For the past three decades, cultural studies has become especially attuned to sonic and auditory culture, resulting in the arrival of a new and exciting field known as “Sound Studies”. During this same period, music scholarship has expanded its own purview to include many of the same issues and research methodologies, particularly in approaching musical styles and practices that are not fully suited to more traditional modes of musicological inquiry. There is, however, no central text that offers the uniquely Canadian perspective on sound, despite the fact that Canadian cultural history is replete with studies and cultural production sensitive to the auditory environment. Chapter proposals are requested for such a text, which will provide an interdisciplinary cross-section of current research on Sound in Canada. Continue reading
Multiple full-time faculty positions
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts invites applications and nominations for multiple full-time faculty positions to commence in the Fall of 2014. We seek candidates to teach undergraduate courses in each of the following areas: Musicianship and Performance; Writing, Journalism, History, and Emergent Media; Studio Production.
Application deadline is 13 December 2013.
Full posting and application details
NYU encourages applications from women and minorities.
Call for papers
IASPM-US Annual Conference
Music Flows
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
13-16 March 2014
Music flows. Evocative metaphorically while directing our attention to the global circulation of songs, the theme for the 2014 IASPM-US Annual Conference takes its inspiration from the UNC campus-wide Water initiative.
Director position
Center for Popular Music
Middle Tennessee State University
Review of position begins 28 October 2013 and is advertised as open until filled.
Call for papers
IASPM UK and Ireland Biennial Conference
Worlds of Popular Music
University College, Cork
Popular music creates worlds around its listeners, temporary, often intimate, and feelingful environments within which the act of listening occurs. It meanwhile plays significant roles in the global flows of capitalism, politics, tourism and migration, and inflects the virtual spaces opened up online by digital technology. Continue reading
Call for applications
Director position
ILAM (International Library of African Music: Research Institute and Heritage Archive)
Rhodes University
Deadline: 30 September 2013
