Call for papers
13-14 September 2012
University of Leeds
The label singer-songwriter has been applied to a wide range of artists, including Joan Manuel Serrat, Paolo Conte, Véronique Sanson and John Lennon. The use of this and related terms (auteur-compositeur-interprète, cantautore and cantautor to name but three) and interpretations of the singer-songwriter’s work differ significantly according to the cultures in which such music is produced and received. Continue reading
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Per Musi
Per Musi, the leading scholarly music periodical in Brazil, welcomes submissions for its special issue on popular music. Deadline is July 30 2012. Continue reading
Reminder Call for papers
10th-13th September 2012
Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
The programme committee has extended the call for papers deadline by one week. The closing date is now Monday 16th January.
Please send submissions to impconfsubmission@music.ox.ac.uk
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Issue #8: Technology, Time and Place
The newly reworked Journal on the Art of Record Production invites articles for Issue #8: Technology, Time and Place. Technologies are central – and essential – to sound and music recording and production processes. Over time, technological change has impacted on roles, working practice[s] and the recording and production workplace. Indeed, notions of time impact on production processes in a multitude of ways. Continue reading
We are pleased to announce the relaunch of the Journal on the Art of Record Production website and issue 5 of JARP. Aptly, the editorial, Change and Continuity: Transformations, Innovations and Tensions in the Art of Record Production, has been written by ARP 2010 conference hosts Robert Davis and Justin Morey of Leeds Metropolitan University. Continue reading
Call for papers
An international conference on Transformations in/of Broadcasting
July 12-13 2012
Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds
In association with The ECREA Media Industries and Cultural Production Temporary Working Group; The Media Industries Research Centre, University of Leeds; Centre for Digital Citizenship, University of Leeds.
Confirmed speakers include Stephen Coleman, John Corner, Des Freedman, Sylvia Harvey, David Hesmondhalgh, Lynn Spigel, Graeme Turner. Continue reading
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TACET: Experimental Music Review #2
http://www.tacet.eu/
Experimentation In Question
Issue edited by Matthieu Saladin – IDEAT (Université Paris 1/ CNRS), Le Quai École supérieure d’art de Mulhouse
According to one of the definitions of experimental music formulated by John Cage, the role of experimentation is to ask questions rather than to provide canned answers. This issue of TACET seeks to turn this saying back on experimentation itself, by examining its principles, manifestations and challenges, both historical (provided they question our contemporaneity) and current. Continue reading
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IASPM Journal
http://www.iaspmjournal.net/
Copyright debates continue to be interesting in the popular music industries for many reasons. Copyright remains a chief mechanism by which the recording and related publishing industries derive income, status and wealth. Yet it is also increasingly an index of measurement of nations’ viability as knowledge economies as much as an index of the tensions between producers and consumers of music. Continue reading
Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Challenging Orthodoxies
17th Biennial IASPM Conference
24-28 June 2013, Oviedo, Spain
Please put in your diaries the dates 24-28 June 2013 to go to Oviedo, Spain for the IASPM biennial conference. The CFP will be posted soon. For now, here’s the conference abstract: Continue reading
The Refereed Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Jazz Conference August 19–20 2010, Helsinki, Finland
Edited by Janne Mäkelä
Since its arrival on the public scene in the early 20th century, jazz has been characterised by a remarkable ability to cross musical, social and cultural borderlines. In terms of musical style and character, jazz has often crossed genre categories and undergone radical changes. In terms of geographical and cultural boundaries, one of the most notable developments in jazz has been the internationalisation of its sound. Continue reading