Louder Than Words: The Festival of Popular Music Writing
The Palace Hotel, Manchester (opp. The Cornerhouse)
15-17 November 2013
http://louderthanwordsfest.com
The event celebrates popular music and the written word through books and magazines, histories and biographies, fanzines and blogs, plays and poetry, publishing and film, and explores the past, present and future of the field through panels, discussions, interviews and performances. Continue reading
Call for chapters
The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema
Diane Hughes & Mark Evans (Eds.)
The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema will be the seventh volume in the Genre, Music and Sound series (Equinox Publishing). Equinox’s Genre, Music and Sound series extends the discipline of screen soundtrack studies by addressing a series of popular international film genres as they have developed in the post-War era (1945-present); analyzing the variety and shared patterns of music and sound use that characterize each genre. This seventh volume will focus on the singing voice in contemporary cinema from 1945 to the present day, and rather than being restricted to one particular genre, will consider how the singing voice has helped define and/or confuse genre classification. Continue reading
Call for papers
Midwest Graduate Music Consortium 2014
11-12 April 2014
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Music
The 18th annual meeting of the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (MGMC) will be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on 11-12 April 2014. Tamara Levitz (UCLA) will serve as the keynote speaker. MGMC is a joint venture organized by graduate students from Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison that encourages the presentation of original research and the composition of new music by graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Continue reading
Assistant Professorship and Professorship in Musicology
Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
University of Copenhagen
Assistant professorship in musicology
Applications are invited from scholars who work on historical source materials in theoretically and methodologically innovative ways. We interpret “historical source materials” in the broadest sense of the term, i.e. from any era or geographical area. Possible fields of research may include, but are not limited to: Western or non-Western art music, popular music, and jazz. Applicants whose work crosses borders between such categories are also encouraged to apply.
Professorship in musicology
There will be a preference for candidates primarily researching relationships between music and media, in relation to multi-media, to the role of music in different media, to sound studies, or as part everyday life, the avant-garde or popular music.
Call for papers
Cultural Appropriation in the Age of Social Media
African Studies Association UK’s Biennial Conference (ASAUK)
University of Sussex
9-11 September 2014
In recent years, social media have played a significant role in catapulting relatively obscure artists or cultural phenomena to international fame, seemingly overnight. The promise of Web 2.0 is that anyone with access to the Internet can find audiences and markets. The spontaneous uptake of memes on social media platforms seems to prove this. Likewise, we have seen South African bands, such as Die Antwoord, rise to fame via social media. Continue reading
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Race & Place in Hip-Hop Beyond the US
African Studies Association UK’s Biennial Conference (ASAUK)
University of Sussex
9-11 September 2014
Hip-hop’s appeal beyond the US has been well documented by recent scholarship and documentaries. Despite the global uptake of hip-hop by a range of musicians, dancers and visual artists, mainstream media tend to focus upon commercial hip-hop from the US almost exclusively. Continue reading
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Metal and Marginalisation: Gender, Race, Class and Other Implications for Hard Rock and Metal
Centre for Women’s Studies and the International Society of Metal Music Scholars
University of York, UK
11 April 2014
Since the rising dawn of metallectualism, heavy metal scholars have acknowledged metal’s capacity to creatively explore forms of individualism, alterity and otherness. Further, metal frequently casts itself as a marginalised group in mainstream society, with fans and musicians often revelling in their outsider status which is reinforced by references to non-conforming traits (Satanism, for example). Continue reading
Call for chapters
Jazz Under Totalitarian Regimes
Transnational Studies in Jazz Series
This is a call for proposals for essays on jazz under totalitarian regimes, to be proposed for publication in the new Routledge Transnational Studies in Jazz series. The chief editor will be Bruce Johnson. Continue reading
Sonic Signatures Symposium
9–11 April 2014
Deadline 1 November 2013
http://www.sss.musik.aau.dk
Sonic Signatures Symposium for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. Registration is free (subject to acceptance of application).
The Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production (ASARP) in collaboration with the European Sound Studies Association (ESSA) is pleased to announce the launch of its annual symposium series, the first of which explores Sonic Signatures. This is a unique opportunity to work with top international academics and recording industry professionals to develop the leading edge of scholarship in this crucial aspect of the analysis of recorded popular music. Over three intensive days you will workshop your own research topic in the context of some of the latest analytical approaches while at the same time being grounded in the practicalities of current creative practice. Continue reading
BEAM
Berlin Ethnomusicology and the Anthropology of Music Research Group
http://berlinethnomusicology.blogspot.de
BEAM is a Berlin-based research group dedicated to the ethnographic study of music. It welcomes local and international scholars and students of various disciplines interested in the social, cultural and political dimensions of music. The group meets Thursday evenings (6-8pm) once a month at different academic institutions around the city. By providing a forum for music scholars to engage in academic exchange, discuss current literature and disciplinary debates, and present recent research, it aims to strengthen a local ethnomusicology community across local Berlin academic institutions, to build connections to a wider international network of ethnomusicologists, and to increase the discipline’s visibility within and expand its impact on local musical, cultural and political life. Continue reading