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Sound, Environment and Action

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Call for articles
Special Issue of Music and Politics
“Sound, Environment and Action”
Deadline: 1 November 2013

The Spring 2014 issue of Music & Politics (7/2) will be dedicated to exploring the intersections of music, culture and the environment as it pertains to politically charged topics. This issue aims to build knowledge around the “politics” of musical works, communities, and practices that share a correlation (consciously or unconsciously) to broader environmental themes. Bringing the topic of “politics” into conversation with “music” and “environment” not only opens up myriad discursive routes, but also raises a multitude of questions regarding the communication of ideas concerning the natural world through sound. For example, what role(s) does music play in environmental activism? In what ways do artists respond to environmental crises? How is the creation of music (from instrument building to performance) tethered to environmental policy? Continue reading →

State of the Music Industry

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Call for articles
The State of the Music Industry
Civilisations

The next issue of the journal Civilisations, published by the Department of Languages and Civilisations, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, will be dedicated to the music industry. It is a familiar story that the music industry is in a state of turmoil. This issue will look at past, current and future trends in the industry. In line with the journal’s interdisciplinary emphasis, the Editorial Committee is seeking contributions from the disciplines of history, economics, law, sociology, and from the larger field of human social sciences. Continue reading →

Text and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture

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New book
Text and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture
Simon Warner
Bloomsbury Publishing

9780826416643

Text and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture considers the relationship between Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs and others and those waves of singers, songwriters and bands – from Dylan to the Beatles, Tom Waits to Patti Smith, the Clash to Kurt Cobain, and many more – who have taken inspiration from that earlier literary community.

Further details here

“Straight from the Heart”: A Conference on Love and Rock Music

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Call for papers
“Straight from the Heart”: A Conference on Love and Rock Music
Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3 (France)
16-17 April 2014
A joint production between University of Chester (United Kingdom) and Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3 (France)

Music historians have often associated archetypal rock music with rebellion and social unrest – political protest, generational conflict, individualism, narcissism and sexual liberation. Likewise, the press, public authorities, medical and religious institutions have routinely considered rock music as a more or less overt, dangerous form of opposition to established order, crystallizing teenage revolt. Rock has been construed as a language of resistance and grammar of protest, embodying the spirit as well as the letter of subversion. Rock songs, however, have often taken love as a central theme – love between men and women, brothers and sisters, parents and children, or friends; sometimes for a dog, a car, a bike, or even a pair of shoes; sometimes universal, spiritual love. Continue reading →

Production Technologies and Studio Practice in EDMC‏

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Call for articles
Production Technologies and Studio Practice in EDMC‏
Special edition of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
Guest Editors: Simon Zagorski-Thomas and Ed Montano
http://dj.dancecult.net/

This special edition of Dancecult seeks to address the paucity of academic literature on production practices and technologies in electronic dance music (EDM). While the scenes, audiences and cultures of EDM have received thorough analysis in academia, the practices that underpin the production of this music remain curiously underexplored. Continue reading →

IASPM UK and Ireland Postgraduate Conference 2013

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Call for papers
IASPM UK and Ireland Postgraduate Conference 2013
The Cultural Value of Popular Music‏
5-6 September, University of Glasgow

The 2013 IASPM UK and Ireland postgraduate conference, to be held at the University of Glasgow, invites papers exploring the cultural value of popular music. In light of the AHRC’s recently launched two-year Cultural Value Project (www.ahrc.ac.uk/funded-research/funded-themes-and-programmes/cultural-value-project), the conference will focus on both the experience of popular music and the economic and social benefits such an experience provides. Continue reading →

Punk in the 21st-Century

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Call for chapters
Punk in the 21st-Century
Editors: Alastair Gordon and Mike Dines

Alastair Gordon and Mike Dines are seeking contributions from the inter-disciplinary areas of cultural studies, musicology and social sciences, for an edited text on the global punk/DiY ‘scenes’ of the 2000s onwards; reflecting upon the notion of origins, music(s), identity, legacy, membership and circulation. Aiming to continue the work of George McKay – and most notably his DiY Culture: Party and Protest in Nineties Britain (1998) – this volume will attempt to traverse the global as a means of mapping the existence of punk/DiY post-2000. As such, this volume will adopt an essentially analytical perspective so as to raise questions initially over the dissemination of the scene and subsequently over its form, structure and cultural significance beyond the 1990s. Continue reading →