cfp: Music and the Internet

Call for Papers: Music and the Internet conference, University of Chicago and virtual, 9-10 June 2023

Music and the Internet (musicandtheinternet.co) is a hybrid, multi-day interdisciplinary conference that will take place virtually and at the University of Chicago June 9-10 2023.

From autoplaying videos to social media echo chambers, the 21st-century internet is a noisy place. The internet and online platforms have become increasingly entwined in both the music industry and in everyday musical activity, with music as both a shaped and shaping medium. Online music communities have emerged around net-native genres with distinct aesthetic, communicative, and meme-based conventions. Such developments have varied throughout the history of music on the internet, with reverberating effects in other online creative industries. Accordingly, a range of theoretical, practical, and ethical issues are in open (and often urgent) discussion for those studying these phenomena.

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cfp: Horizons of Punk

Horizons of Punk: Punk-Rock Scholarship and its Methodologies

A Collaboration Between Gustave Eiffel University (Laboratoire LISAA) and Punk Scholars Network UK & South Korea

When: 9th June 2023

Where: Auditorium, Georges Perec Library, Gustave Eiffel University, Champs-sur-Marne, France

“The horizon is the range of vision that includes everything that can be seen from a particular vantage point […] A person who has no horizon is a man who does not see far enough and hence overvalues what is nearest to him. On the other hand, ‘to have a horizon’ means not being limited to what is nearby, but to being able to see beyond it.” (Gadamer, Truth and Method).

What are the horizons of punk-rock? What are the horizons of punk-rock scholarship? How are these horizons defined, and how do they operate in punk music, culture, and scholarship? As they evolve through time, history, and geography, what commonalities and contradictions emerge? 

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cfp: Probing the Borderland

Probing the Borderland
Between Popular Music and Literature

1-Day Symposium, Friday 9th June 2023

Hosted by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France)

(Hybrid event)

Abstracts of 200 words should be sent, along with a short biography of no more than 100 words, to Catherine Girodet (catherine.girodet@univ-reims.fr) and Sylvie Mikowski (sylvie.mikowski@univ-reims.frby 15th March 2023.

Messages of acceptance will be sent by March 29th 2023.

Keywords: popular music, popular song, literature, song-writing, intertextuality, interartistry, aesthetic resonance, intermediality, hybridity, transformative space

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cfp: Soundscapes of ­the South

Call for Papers: Soundscapes of ­the South
Macon, Georgia 
September 28-29, 2023


“Precisely how and why the American South has shaped and nurtured so much successful art is something sociologists and anthropologists will still be bickering about a half century from now,” Amanda Petrusich wrote in It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music (2008): “All I know is that it is mostly true.” Fifteen years on, her musical travelogue remains a vital exploration of the ways in which place may infl­uence “the sounds we make.”

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cfp: Music and Ideas of the Popular: Reconsidering British Music and Musical Practice

Call for Papers:

North American British Music Studies Online Symposium:

Music and Ideas of the Popular: Reconsidering British Music and Musical Practices

August 10-12, 2023 on Zoom

The topic of the 2023 biennial online symposium is “Ideas of the Popular in British Music.” Despite the messiness involved in “popular” (or, for that matter, “art”) music, we propose a rethinking of “popular” and “popular culture” in British music, broadly construed, in local and global contexts.

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Job Announcement: Northeastern University (Boston, USA) FT/NTT “Freshman Experience” in Music

About the Opportunity: The Department of Music in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University (Boston, USA) invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Teaching Professor, Associate Teaching Professor, Teaching Professor, or Professor of the Practice, commensurate with qualifications and experience. We seek an experienced college-level educator and advisor with an advanced degree in interdisciplinary music studies or the equivalent, and/or with a strong background in cross-disciplinary approaches to teaching, advising and curriculum design. The successful candidate will play a leadership role in the Department’s academic programs, assist in mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in preparation for a flexible array of future professional opportunities, and support Northeastern University’s traditional strengths in experiential education. The anticipated start date for this position is Fall 2023.

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call for chapters: Vivid Versions: Cover Songs, Contexts, and Subjectivities

Vivid Versions: Cover Songs, Contexts, and Subjectivities

Edited by Mike Alleyne and Lori Burns

~Call for Proposals~

The covering of an iconic song has long been a popular music strategy for an artist’s expression of identity and musical subjectivity. Such song adaptations often entail the traversing of borders that articulate significant contexts for social and musical identities. We summarize these potential contexts in the following list, in no particular order of critical importance:

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cfp: Innovation in Music Conference 2023

Call for Papers: Innovation in Music Conference 2023
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InMusic23: Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK: 30 June, 1 & 2 July 2023

Innovation In Music celebrate their 10 year anniversary in 2023 and are excited to be heading to Edinburgh Napier University for our 10th year conference.

The InMusic23 conference theme is ‘You’re not supposed to do that’ with a focus on misuse and reuse; reimagining and repositioning; hybridisation and recontextualisation; and creating unique pathways and perspectives in music production, performance, technology and business.

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cfp: Probing the Borderland between Popular Music and Literature – SYMPOSIUM June 9th

Probing the Borderland

Between Popular Music and Literature

1-Day Symposium, Friday 9th June 2023 

Hosted by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France)

(Hybrid event)

Abstracts of 200 words should be sent, along with a short biography of no more than 100 words, to Catherine Girodet (catherine.girodet@univ-reims.fr) and Sylvie Mikowski (sylvie.mikowski@univ-reims.frby 15th March 2023.

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cfp: “You are beautiful, no matter what they say”
Sentimental Ballads in Popular Music

Call for Papers
“You are beautiful, no matter what they say”
Sentimental Ballads in Popular Music

International Symposium
September 13-14, 2023, University of Siegen, Germany

Getting goosebumps while listening to “I Will Always Love You”, being moved to tears by “Un-Break My Heart”, being carried away by “Beautiful” – the sound of ballads may evoke affective as well as physical responses. Such somatic interactions with popular songs are apparently based on a common ground of cultural production of affect that parallels the cinematic “body genre” of melodrama (Meier 2008).

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