Category Archives: Studying popular music

Call for Contributions: RMA Research Chronicle Special Issue – Music and Covid-19

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Dear Fellow IASPM Members (with apologies for any cross-posting), 

Please find below details of a wide-ranging Call for Contributions which will hopefully be of interest to some of you.

Call for Contributions: RMA Research Chronicle Special Issue

The Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle is seeking contributions for a special issue on ‘Music and Covid-19’, guest edited by Dr Larry Zazzo (Newcastle University) and Dr Adam Behr (Newcastle University).  As, educators, scholars, performers and audiences, we are all starting to emerge from the pandemic transformed and still facing substantial challenges.  COVID-19 continues to have an effect on the creative economy and its regulatory environment, as well as the practical contexts of making, distributing, teaching and researching musics of all kinds. For many, these challenges have been — and still are— existential, as musicking performers and venues of every genre still struggle to return to a pre-COVID-19 ‘normal’.

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cfp (deadline extended): Differentiating Sound Studies: Politics of Sound and Listening, Hanyang Univ., Seoul/Hybrid, 15–16 April 2022

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Differentiating Sound Studies: Politics of Sound and Listening 

  • CFP deadline extended: 7 January 2022, 23:59 (UTC+9)

  • Notification of results: 15 January 2022

  • Conference dates: 15–16 April 2022 

  • Conference website: https://mrc.hanyang.ac.kr/differentiating-sound-studies/ 

  • Venue: Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (hybrid)

  • Keynote Speakers:

    Eric Drott (The University of Texas at Austin)

    Mack Hagood (Miami University)

In response to demands for an extension of deadline in the midst of holiday season, we have decided to extend the submission deadline for “Differentiating Sound Studies: Politics of Sound and Listening” until 7 January 2022. Those who have already submitted their abstracts may revise their submissions until the new deadline, if necessary.

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cfp: Methodological Approaches to Music and Dance

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Methodological Approaches to Music and Dance:

Exploring the Field of Heavy Metal and Its Genre Boundaries

September 08 – September 09, 2022, University of Siegen

Music and dance are connected intimately and especially in popular music cultures dance plays a vital role. Even though academic attention so far has rather attended to forms such as tap dance, salsa, hip hop or various forms of electronic dance music, heavy metal is no exception in this respect: It has developed characteristic, music-related bodily practices that at times serve to designate cultural membership as, for example, the term “headbangers” indicates. At concerts, the music is accompanied by common movements like headbanging and moshing and even more unconventional forms such as conga lines or ‘folkloristic’ circle dances can be found. As this suggests, the boundaries to other music genres are not rigid but porous: Historically, for instance, moshing and stage diving entered metal culture via hardcore and (music-)stylistic crossovers can entail extensions of a genre’s dance styles. The specific forms of movement are situated within a complex, relational structure and can vary by (sub-)genre, the course of a concert, the interaction among dancers, the dancers’ evaluation of the music, or the music’s aesthetic character and materiality to name but a few aspects.

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Call for Articles: Journal of Global,Pop Cultures

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We are pleased to announce the first “Call for Papers” (https://www.journalofglobalpopcultures.com/submissions) for the 1st edition of our upcoming “Journal of Global Pop Cultures”, an initiative of Shared Campus and of its the theme group “Pop Cultures” in particular (https://shared-campus.com/themes#pop-cultures). 

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REMINDER – Call for Chapters – Progressive Rock, Metal and the Literary Imagination (extended deadline)

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Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination

Chris Anderton and Lori Burns, editors

Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination will present analyses of progressive rock and metal music that reveals a striking engagement with literary texts and themes – from classic literature, mythology and poetry to science fiction, horror, and other genres. While many of the extant publications on progressive rock and metal have focused on the history of progressive rock, few have examined the ways that it intersects with the literary imagination, whether drawing on myths, legends, and stories as source material, or using storytelling modes to create new stories and worlds. Progressive rock musicians have often created concept albums based around these source materials and worlds, and they offer more than simply fantasy and escapism, with narratives and themes that comment on the social, cultural, and political milieux in which they are made.

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cfp: Differentiating Sound Studies: Politics of Sound and Listening, Hanyang Univ., Seoul/Hybrid, 15–16 April 2022

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Differentiating Sound Studies: Politics of Sound and Listening 

  • CFP deadline: 31 December 2021, 23:59 (UTC+9)

  • Notification of results: 15 January 2022

  • Conference dates: 15–16 April 2022 

  • Conference website: https://mrc.hanyang.ac.kr/differentiating-sound-studies/ 

  • Venue: Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (hybrid)

  • Keynote Speakers:

    Eric Drott (The University of Texas at Austin)

    Mack Hagood (Miami University)
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SEM Journal of Audiovisual Ethnomusicology – Call for Submissions

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The Journal of Audiovisual Ethnomusicology (JAVEM) is a newly established, bi-annual, peer-reviewed streaming journal of ethnomusicological film and video sponsored by the Society for Ethnomusicology.

JAVEM aims to advance the use of video/film as a method for exploring music and its entanglements, and as a medium for presenting those explorations.

We invite the submission to JAVEM of original audiovisual contributions.

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Assistant Professor in Music and Culture

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The following job posting at Carleton University in Ottawa might be of interest to IASPM members. Sorry for any cross-posting…

About the Position

Field of Specialization: Music and Culture

Academic Unit:  School for Studies in Art & Culture: Music

Category of Appointment: Preliminary

Rank/Position Title: Assistant Professor

Start Date: 1 July 2022

Closing Date: 15 January 2022, or until the position is filled

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IASPM Canada/Working in Music 2022 conference: extended deadline

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The abstract submission deadline for the joint IASPM Canada and Working in Music 2022 conference has been extended until 1 December 2021.

We welcome topics within the conference theme of “Starting Over? Popular Music and Working in Music in a Post-Pandemic World,” or any aspect of popular music studies, broadly defined.

The conference will take place in London, Ontario, Canada, from May 22 to 25, 2022.

Further information and submission link available on the IASPM Canada website: https://www.iaspm.ca/2022conference