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Sound in Canada

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Call for chapters
Sound in Canada: Environment, Technology, History
Deadline: 18 November 2013

For the past three decades, cultural studies has become especially attuned to sonic and auditory culture, resulting in the arrival of a new and exciting field known as “Sound Studies”. During this same period, music scholarship has expanded its own purview to include many of the same issues and research methodologies, particularly in approaching musical styles and practices that are not fully suited to more traditional modes of musicological inquiry. There is, however, no central text that offers the uniquely Canadian perspective on sound, despite the fact that Canadian cultural history is replete with studies and cultural production sensitive to the auditory environment. Chapter proposals are requested for such a text, which will provide an interdisciplinary cross-section of current research on Sound in Canada. Continue reading →

New York University Full-Time Faculty Positions

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Multiple full-time faculty positions
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University

New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts invites applications and nominations for multiple full-time faculty positions to commence in the Fall of 2014. We seek candidates to teach undergraduate courses in each of the following areas: Musicianship and Performance; Writing, Journalism, History, and Emergent Media; Studio Production.

Application deadline is 13 December 2013.

Full posting and application details

NYU encourages applications from women and minorities.

IASPM UK and Ireland 2014 Conference

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Call for papers
IASPM UK and Ireland Biennial Conference
Worlds of Popular Music
University College, Cork

Popular music creates worlds around its listeners, temporary, often intimate, and feelingful environments within which the act of listening occurs. It meanwhile plays significant roles in the global flows of capitalism, politics, tourism and migration, and inflects the virtual spaces opened up online by digital technology. Continue reading →

Post-Doctoral Positions King’s College London

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Three Full-Time Post-Doctoral Positions
King’s College London
Modern Moves: Kinetic Transnationalism and Afro-Diasporic Rhythm Cultures

Applications are invited for three full-time post-doctoral scholars to work on the interdisciplinary project Modern Moves: Kinetic Transnationalism and Afro-Diasporic Rhythm Cultures funded by the European Research Council and located in the English Department of King’s College London under the leadership of Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir. The appointments are for 54 months. Applicants must have a completed PhD by the application’s closing date. Continue reading →

35th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Empire

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Call for papers
35th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Empire
19-23 March 2014
Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel

The ICFA welcomes papers on any aspect of the fantastic – broadly defined as including fantasy, science fiction, weird fiction, horror, gothic, and fairy tales – in Literature, Drama, Film, Music, Video Games and Comics. The Visual & Performing Arts and Audiences (VPAA) Division accepts papers on:

– visual arts such as comic books, paintings, architecture, sculpture, photographs and illustrations;
– the performing arts, including (film, TV, game, pop/rock) music, dance and theater;
– games, including fanfic, fan artwork and cosplay;
– transformative texts, both fan and professional, including mashups and viral marketing;
– and audience/reception studies concerning audiences for any medium or genre of the fantastic. Continue reading →