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Guitars and Geeks: An Exploration of the Music and Culture of Geek Rock

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Call for chapters
Guitars and Geeks: An Exploration of the Music and Culture of Geek Rock
Deadline 31 December 2012
Editors: Victoria Willis & Alex DiBlasi

This book seeks to explore the culture, music, and significance of geek rock. As a sub-genre of alternative music, geek rock has not only been neglected in current humanities scholarship, it has also been literally erased from the mainstream with the deletion of the “Geek Rock” Wikipedia page. We contend that not only is geek rock present and significant within music and culture, but that it transcends musical genre and social boundaries. Geek rock, as we define it, is determined more by subject matter than by sound. The purpose of this collection of essays is two-fold: to define and re-map geek rock on the musical landscape and to explore the musical and cultural significance geek rock. Continue reading →

Computer Music Journal – Special Issue on Live Coding

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Call for articles
Computer Music Journal
Special issue on Live Coding Practice
Deadline 21 January 2013
Guest edited by Alex McLean, Julian Rohrhuber and Nick Collins

Live coding focuses on a computer musician’s relationship with their computer. It includes programming a computer as an explicit onstage act, as a musical prototyping tool with immediate feedback, and also as a method of collaborative programming. Live coding’s tension between immediacy and indirectness brings about a mediating role for computer language within musical interaction. At the same time, it implies the rewriting of algorithms, as descriptions which concern the future; live coding may well be the missing link between composition and improvisation. Continue reading →

IASPM 2012 (UK & Ireland) Conference

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Update
IASPM 2012 (UK & Ireland) Conference
5-7 September 2012
University of Salford

An update for those attending or interested in the 2012 conference at MediaCityUK, University of Salford, in September.

1. Programme. A DRAFT programme is now available for your perusal on the conference website. There are over 30 panels, over 100 papers, from UK and Ireland and across the world too. We think it looks pretty exciting, and hope to entice you to sunny Salford in September to be with us.

2. Registration and fees information are available too now. You register and pay online, again via the website. Good news: we have held the conference cost for both full (i.e. salaried academic staff) and students to the same price as Cardiff 2010. And for early birds it’s even better: the 3-day conference fee is only £150 (full) or £110 (student). Must be outstanding value!

3. A full range of discounted accommodation options is also available for online booking via the website. Rooms for all budgets, from £39 to £115 pppn.

Sonic Visions: Popular Music On and After Television‏

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Call for submissions
Sonic Visions: Popular Music On and After Television
Journal of Popular Music Studies Special Issue
Guest Editors Matt Delmont & Murray Forman

The connection of music and television calls to mind iconic performances like Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956 and the debut of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video on MTV in 1983. More recently, music videos have seen a resurgence in the “post-television” era, with videos like Justine Bieber’s “Baby” (ft. Ludacris) and Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” (ft. Beyoncé) notching hundreds of millions of views online (671 million and 432 million, respectively, as of December 2011). At the same time, and often in the shadows of these hugely popular performances, music has been crucial to every era of television and to the development of video websites like YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo, providing profitable content, pioneering new screen technologies, and promoting debates around the visual presentation of race, gender, sexuality, and youth. Continue reading →

Eighth Biennial International Conference in Music Since 1900‏

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Call for papers
Eighth Biennial International Conference in Music Since 1900‏
12-15 September 2013
Liverpool Hope University

The call for the Eighth Biennial International Conference in Music Since 1900, which will take place at Liverpool Hope University, 12-15 September 2013, is now open: http://www.hope.ac.uk/events/conferences/musicsince1900conference/

Anarcho-Punk Anthology

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Call for submissions
Anarcho-Punk Anthology

Mike Dines is seeking contributions from the wide spectrum of musicology and social sciences for an edited text on the anarcho-punk scene of the 1980s that will reflect upon its origins, its music(s), its identity, its legacy, its membership and circulation. Seven years ago, I was awarded my PhD for my research into the emergence of the anarcho-punk scene and, to my surprise, there are still no academic texts that fully unpack this fascinating movement and its politics. As such, I would like to put out a call for proposals in the hope that we might rectify this omission: and thus raising questions as to how we can define aesthetically, culturally, politically and ideologically the concept and meaning of the anarcho-punk scene. Continue reading →

Oppositions: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference

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Call for papers
Oppositions: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
28 and 29 September 2012
University of Salford

This conference seeks to explore ideas of opposition through the full range of disciplines in the arts, media, and social sciences.

In the context of the current crisis of capitalism, there are many examples of the forms ‘opposition’ can take: the Tea Party in the United States, the rise of fascist groups, campaigns run via new technologies and social media, religious fundamentalisms, and general strikes in Greece. Though it carries radical overtones, ‘opposition’ in itself is not tied to any particular dogma, left or right. We invite papers that explore the value and values of opposition as a position to be adopted by individuals or groups. Continue reading →