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Social Alternatives: Music, Politics and Environment

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Call for articles
Special issue of Social Alternatives: Music, Politics and Environment
Edited by Tony Mitchell, University of Technology, Sydney

Music is increasingly playing a role in environmental activism, from rock, hip hop, folk, dance music and other forms of popular music through to jazz, classical music, experimental music and sonic arts and installations. How does one measure the ‘carbon footprint’ left by an opera production at the Sydney Opera House, a world tour by U2, the Big Day Out, the Livid Festival, or a gig at the local pub or an unlicensed venue? And how do environmental issues such as these affect the way music is produced and received? This issue of Social Alternatives invites papers that consider any genre of music in terms of political and environmental activism and ways in which music can relate to issues such as climate change, global warming and carbon emissions. Continue reading →

Global Glam

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Call for chapters
Global Glam: Style and Spectacle in Popular Music from the 1970s to the 2000s
Deadline: 1 November 2013

Contributions are invited for an edited book on style and spectacle in “glam” popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day. The editors are seeking chapters of about 7000 words on artists, bands, and movements, and covering a range of national, regional, and cultural contexts from around the globe. Continue reading →

Thinking With Jazz Symposium

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Thinking With Jazz Symposium
Lancaster Jazz Festival 2013‏
20 September

thinking with jazz is a day-long symposium that takes place during the 2013 Lancaster Jazz Festival. This year, panelists and keynote speakers include John Cumming (London Jazz Festival), Fiona Talkington (BBC Radio 3), Gerry Godley (Twelve Points Festival, Dublin), George McKay (University of Salford), Tim Wall (Birmingham City University), Kristin McGee (University of Groningen), Matt Robinson (Lancaster Jazz Festival), Pete Moser (More Music) and Tony Whyton (University of Salford). Continue reading →

International Doctoral Workshop in Ethnomusicology

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Sixth International Doctoral Workshop in Ethnomusicology
25–29 June 2014
Hildesheim/Hanover

The Center for World Music at the University of Hildesheim and the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media are pleased to announce the sixth annual workshop for PhD candidates in ethnomusicology. Through paper presentations, discussions and working groups, the workshop offers a unique environment for 16 doctoral students to engage in international dialogue and exchange, and expand critical debate on recent ethnomusicological research. The workshop will be directed by Prof. Dr. Philip V. Bohlman (Chicago/Hanover), Prof. Dr. Raimund Vogels (Hildesheim/Hanover), and Dr. Thomas R. Hilder (Hildesheim). Continue reading →

EMP Pop Conference 2014

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Call for papers
GO! MUSIC AND MOBILITY
EMP Pop Conference
24-27 April 2014, Seattle, Washington

We turn to music to put the world in motion. Music on mobile phones, music over the airways, communication by talking drums: these sounds have accompanied the voluntary and involuntary movement of people, alleviated work and pulsated leisure, animated borderlands and virtual spaces with patterns that root and are made material. As rites of charivari and Pink Floyd songs demonstrate, when music stops conveying mobility we bang on pots and walls. Continue reading →

Music, Gender & Difference Conference

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Music, Gender & Difference
10-12 October 2013
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria

The program and all the information about the conference can be found here: http://www.sektionfthg.at

For registration send an email to: reitsamer@mdw.ac.at

Conference Fee:
30 Euro for students, musicians, artists, etc.
50 Euro for all other visitors

The conference is organised by the Institute for Music Sociology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in cooperation with:

· The Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the Austrian Society of Sociology
· The Women and Gender Studies Section of the German Society of Sociology
· The Gender Studies Committee of the Swiss Society of Sociology

Original call for papers post

Australian Jazz‏

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Call for articles
Australian Jazz
Jazz Research Journal

This is a call for proposals for articles to be published in a special double issue of Jazz Research Journal (JRJ) in 2015 devoted to Australian jazz. JRJ, one of the world’s leading scholarly jazz journals, is published by Equinox Press in London. The Guest Editor for this issue will be Bruce Johnson. Equinox plans to then publish the essays within twelve months as a book collection on Australian jazz, and as such it will be the first international academic anthology in the field. Continue reading →

Subculture of Skateboarding‏

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Call for chapters
Subculture of Skateboarding‏
Due date: 1 November 2013

In Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body, the first academic monograph on skateboarding, Iain Borden noted that “academic and external records of skateboarding are extremely limited… there have been few historical accounts of its internal practices and development, still less of its wider social meanings” (2001, p. 4). Since then, many more studies on skateboarding have emerged from areas as diverse as urban design, sociology of sport, medicine, geography and youth studies. Academic discussion reveals various and often contradictory understandings of skateboarding: it is a multi-million dollar industry, recreational activity, sport, children’s pursuit, fad, underground movement, criminal activity, form of transport, and an aesthetic practice. Considered ‘extreme’ by corporations, yet not by those involved in the subculture (e.g. Australian Skateboarding Magazine editorial April 2003), skateboarding has become more ‘respectable’ as it is increasingly mainstreamed, yet is still considered in terms of resistance (to capitalist social relations, spatial control, and commodification, for example). Continue reading →