Call for papers
The Afterlife of the Film Song: A One-Day Symposium
The Victoria Rooms, Bristol
8 December 2012
University of the West of England, Bristol
University of Bristol
In association with The Soundtrack and Intellect Books
Abstracts are invited for twenty-minute papers to be given as part of a one-day symposium on the afterlife of film songs. Continue reading
Goldsmiths Popular Music Research Unit presents
The Life and Music of A.L. Lloyd
Tuesday 29 May 5.00pm
IASPM colleagues and friends in or near London at the end of May will be welcome at this seminar.
A talk by Dave Arthur to coincide with the publication of his book Bert: The Life and Times of A.L. Lloyd (Pluto Press).
Small Hall Cinema, Richard Hoggart Building
Goldsmiths College
New Cross London SE14 6NW
Folk singer and folk music collector, writer, painter, journalist, art critic, whalerman, sheep station roustabout, Marxist, and much more – this is the story of A. L. (Bert) Lloyd’s extraordinary life. Continue reading
Ongoing early career position in Music and Sound
Creative Industries Faculty, QUT, Brisbane, Australia
Closing date: 13 June 2012
QUT’s Creative Industries Faculty is seeking an energetic and innovative academic in the Discipline of Music & Sound. The successful applicant will have a strong commitment to teaching and research excellence. S/he will have a track record demonstrating ability to contribute to the research profile of the Faculty, and to engage at high levels with industry and community groups. The appointee will have expertise and experience in one or more of the following areas: Musicology, Music Technology, Music Curriculum Studies, Community Music, or Music Composition and Production. The successful candidate will also demonstrate the ability to contribute to the Faculty’s Creative Practice profile and work as part of a small but energetic teaching team focused on the development of professional and creative musicians who are well prepared for a challenging professional environment. More details
Norient Academic Online Journal
Vol. 1, 2012
New issue now available
The peer-reviewed Norient Academic Online Journal is an online journal which appears once a year and focuses on the study of popular music from an ethnographic perspective. Continue reading
Call for submissions
El oído pensante
El oído pensante invites the submission of articles for the first volume (2013) (ISSN 2250-7116).
The aim of this biannual peer-reviewed online journal of free access is to promote debate on theoretical, methodological and epistemological dilemmas faced by different kinds of music research. Continue reading
Call for submissions
Norient Academic Online Journal
The Future(s) of Music? – Notions of Prospective Musics in Utopian Movies and Literature
The famous Cantina Band scene from George Lucas’ Star Wars, featuring an alien ensemble performing a foxtrot-like John Williams composition, is just one of many examples: While film scores often have provided an experimental ground for musical innovators – just think of the trendsetting sound creations Oskar Sala and Bernard Herrmann contributed to the late films by Alfred Hitchcock – diegetic depictions of musical performances, i.e. those scenes in films where the production or consumption of music is part of the story, often draw on known musical idioms when the dramatic setting is explicitly utopian. The paradox here is that there seems to be a decisive difference between composing innovative film scores on the one hand and imagining, picturing and sounding-out “the music of the future” on the other. Or, is it futures? Continue reading
Call for submissions
Nostalgias: A special issue of Volume! The French Journal of Popular Music Studies
Edited by Hugh Dauncey (Newcastle University) & Christopher Tinker (Heriot-Watt University)
Volume!, the French peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of popular music, seeks contributions for a special issue on nostalgia and popular music in a variety of national, international and transnational contexts. Continue reading
One-day workshop
Musicians and Their Audiences
King’s College London
Saturday 1 December 2012
The musician/audience dichotomy has served as a constant subject of scrutiny for the sociocultural study of music practices. Both in ‘presentational’ and ‘participatory’ performances (Turino, 2008), the dynamic relationship between performing and being watched/heard has been central to the construction of music genres and identities. Moreover, as music cultures become re-contextualised from local communities to the world stage, and reversely from global scenes to subcultural formations, the dialectics of performance and spectatorship become more complex. Continue reading
Arts, Culture and Media Department, University of Groningen
One-year 25% (.25 fte) replacement teaching position
Two popular music courses
The Arts, Culture and Media Department at the University of Groningen invites popular music candidates to apply for a one-year 25% (.25 fte) replacement teaching position. This position would entail teaching two popular music courses:
1. Studying Popular Music: Theories and Methodologies
2. European Popular Music Continue reading
Music, Politics and Agency Seminar 3: Sonic Radicalism
23 May 2012
13:00-17:00
University of East London, Docklands Campus Room EB.1.03 (directions below)
Can sound subvert? Thinkers since Plato have assumed that it can, that social form and musical form are intrinsically linked, resonant, or pre-figurative of each other. In this seminar, leading and innovative thinkers will interrogate and explore these claims and their implications. Continue reading