International Reggae: Traditional and Emerging Expressions in Popular Music
University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
14-16 February 2013
The Institute of Caribbean Studies and the Reggae Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona announce the third International Reggae Conference (formerly Global Reggae Conference) under the theme “Traditional and Emerging Expressions in Popular Music”. Continue reading
42nd World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music
11-17 July 2013
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Deadline for all abstract submissions: 7 September 2012
The Program Committee, Local Arrangements Committee, and Secretariat for the 2013 ICTM World Conference have recently received a number of questions from potential participants concerning multiple presentations.
Simply put, a participant may have only one substantive role in the Conference, as a paper presenter, discussant, film presenter, or member of a roundtable. The only exception is that one may chair a panel or roundtable as well as make a presentation in that or another session. If you have already submitted more than one proposal, you will be asked to choose which proposal you wish to have evaluated by the Program Committee.
Please do not send your proposals (or requests to withdraw proposals) to the ICTM Secretariat or the Program Chair, but send them to the two email addresses listed under “Guidelines for Submission” on the conference website.
New book
Playing it Queer: Popular Music, Identity and Queer World-making
Jodie Taylor
42nd World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music
11-17 July 2013
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Deadline for all abstract submissions: 7 September 2012
The conference themes are:
• Presentation and Representation in Minority Musics and Dance
• Rethinking, Reconstructing, and Reinventing Musical Pasts
• Ethnomusicology, Ethnochoreology, and Education
• Ritual, Religion, and the Performing Arts
• Screening Music and Dance
• New Research
Abstracts in all categories must be submitted through the conference website.
The website also contains full descriptions of the conference themes, guidelines for submissions, and information on Shanghai. Information on registration and accommodation will be added at a later date.
Perspectives on Musical Improvisation
10-13 September 2012
University of Oxford
We have a small number of places still available at the conference, and so if you were interested in joining the event or had missed previous announcements, we would encourage you to book sooner rather than later. The conference brings together a rich set of perspectives on musical improvisation with papers approaching the subject from musicological, cognitive, psycho-social, philosophical, anthropological and pedagogical lenses representing a range of improvisatory genres. In addition to papers, there will be practical workshops and performances. Continue reading
Music and Movement
2012 National Graduate Student Conference, British Forum for Ethnomusicology
12-14 September 2012
Institute for Music Research (IMR), London WC1
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Bull, University of Sussex
People and music are always moving. Whether across the dance floor, across town, or across borders, neither rests. Sometimes this movement is intentional, other times it is not. Musical movement may benefit some groups but be to the detriment of others. Music can mediate our experiences of movement and movement can mediate our experiences of music. Ultimately, the study of musical movement is the study of social relations. Continue reading
Lecturer in Communication and/or Media Studies
University of Otago, New Zealand
The Department of Media, Film and Communication invites applications for two positions at the rank of Lecturer to join an established and growing Department and build on core teaching and research activities in the Communication Studies and Film and Media Studies majors. Continue reading
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
In Anglo-American countries, the history of rock music has been institutionalized since the 1970s, notably in musicology and cultural studies departments. In France, on the contrary, it has been considered, until recently, as a rather minor subject, abandoned to journalists and amateurs. Continue reading
Call for papers
Fourteenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
20-23 June 2013
Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Submission Deadline: 1 November 2012
Convention Coordinators:
Corey Anton (antonc@gvsu.edu) Grand Valley State University
Valerie V. Peterson (petersov@gvsu.edu) Grand Valley State University
Grand Valley is happy to host the Media Ecology Association’s Fourteenth Annual Convention in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, 20-23 June 2013. Our aim is to provoke academic dialogue, raise public awareness of media ecology, and discuss the relevance of media ecological thought to the broader culture. The Fourteenth Annual Convention, with the theme of Media Ecology Unplugged, invites papers, panels, creative projects, and other proposals presenting research and/or exploring topics and ideas related to the convention theme. Continue reading
New York University
Abu Dhabi campus
NYU Abu Dhabi seeks leading scholars for tenured, tenure-track or contract appointments in its Music program in 1) musicology and/or in 2) ethnomusicology, with a preference for those with an expertise in music of the Middle Eastern region, and 3) performance, a professional with the ability to organize a performance program. Continue reading