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2nd International Congress on Ambiances

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2nd International Congress on Ambiances
Ambiances in action
Montréal Canada, 19-22 September 2012

The Congress will be held for four days at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), in Montreal, from 19 to 22 September 2012. It will seek to express advances in learning and new hypotheses proposed by the various disciplines and fields of activity which address the question of ambiances. Registration for the congress is still open. Registration is carried out online and payment by credit card is possible. Continue reading →

Senior Lecturer/Lecturer/Junior Lecturer (Sound Technology)‏

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Senior Lecturer/Lecturer/Junior Lecturer
Department of Music and Musicology (Sound Technology)
Rhodes University

Recognising that diversity is important in achieving excellence, Rhodes University especially encourages South African members of designated groups to apply.

Please note that this appointment will be made in line with the requirements of the Employment Equity Act of RSA and the University’s recruitment and selection policies and equity strategies. For more details refer to: R&S Policy for Academic Posts.

Requirements:

Senior Lecturer
PhD preferably with Sound Technology as a specialisation with an undergraduate qualification in music with relevant professional experience which includes expert level understanding and experience in working with audio visual systems, both digital and analogue. Proven track record in production of recorded works. Experience in live sound system, theatre system and post production systems is a requirement. Continue reading →

International Sound Studies Organisation Launched‏

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ESSA
The European Sound Studies Organisation

On Friday 13 July 2012 the foundation of ESSA – the European Sound Studies Organisation – was announced. The committee behind the organisation consists of sound researchers from Germany, England, France, The Netherlands, and the Nordic countries.

The aim is to provide an international, interdisciplinary and interprofessional organization for promoting the study of sound by providing a forum for knowledge exchange, for conferences, for research encouragement and development of projects, and for information. Continue reading →

Music and Armed Conflicts After 1945

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Call for submissions
Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales nº 4
Music and armed conflicts after 1945

Coordination : Luis VELASCO PUFLEAU

The role of music to contest, legitimize, comment, pacify or intensify contemporary armed conflicts has so far received little attention by musicological research – compared to the numerous existing studies on the two World Wars. To engage an interdisciplinary reflection on this issue, mobilizing tools of musical analysis, political sociology, social history, geopolitics and anthropology, the fourth issue of Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales will focus on the relationship between music and armed conflicts in the second part of the twentieth century: decolonization wars, civil wars in Africa, Latin America and Asia, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, wars in Korea, Vietnam, Falklands, Kosovo, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Libya, etc. Continue reading →

IASPM-CA Email List‏

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International Association for the Study of Popular Music-Canada

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music-Canada mailing list (L-IASPMCA) is now open to the public and invites new subscribers to join in the conversation about the study of popular music. The list is unmoderated, but new subscriptions will be approved by the list administrator before subscribers can post to the list. To subscribe to the list please visit http://iaspm.ca/mailman/listinfo/l-iaspmca_iaspm.ca or visit http://iaspm.ca and click the “Mailman” link in the top right corner.

Jan Fairley‏

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Our dear friend and colleague Jan Fairley passed away yesterday morning in her Edinburgh home. The funeral will be Saturday.

Jan died peacefully at home surrounded by family.

The funeral will be held at Christ Church Morningside, 6a Morningside Road, Edinburgh EH10 4DD, on 16 June from 8.30am for 9am. Please wear colour and do bring your stories of Jan written down. No flowers please, donations to the invaluable Maggie’s Centre, Macmillan and Marie Curie. Please see www.justgiving.com/TomPlatt

Jan, go in peace. Your life, courage and positive attitude will be an example for us.

2012 IASPM-Norden Conference

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Call for papers
2012 IASPM-Norden Conference
Popular Music and the Nordic Region in Global Dynamics
Roskilde, Denmark 29-30 November 2012‏

Organized jointly by:
— The Nordic branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
— ‘Popular Music in the Nordic Countries in the Early 21st Century’, a cross-sector project funded by the Nordic Culture Fund

We are happy to invite proposals for entire sessions as well as for individual presentations for the 2012 IASPM-Norden conference. We welcome all topics related to the study of popular music, yet a specific emphasis in the conference is given to the politics of location of popular music in the Nordic countries.

The keynote presentations will be delivered by professor Simon Frith (University of Edinburgh) on the subject “What is different about popular music in the 21st century?”, and by professor Stan Hawkins (University of Oslo) on “Terror, Masculinity, and Music”. Continue reading →