Call for Papers:
Crosstown Traffic: Popular Music Theory and Practice
University of Huddersfield, UK
3rd-5th September 2018
Call for Papers:
Crosstown Traffic: Popular Music Theory and Practice
University of Huddersfield, UK
3rd-5th September 2018
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Musicology and
Media Studies, invites applications for a
Full Professorship for Popular Music Studies (W3)
to be filled as soon as possible.
Call for Papers
12th International Jazz Research Conference Graz
Jazz Voices
17–20 May 2018 Institute for Jazz Research, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria) International Society for Jazz Research
Deadline 31 October 2017
Call for Papers
Web Conference: Locating the “Avant-Garde”: (Post)Modern Music at the Boundaries in the 20th & 21st Centuries
Conference Dates: April 14-15, 21-22, 28-29, 2018
Proposal Deadline: 1 January 2018
Call for papers
Design, Sound and Vision in Midcentury Media
The 8th William A. Kern Conference on Visual Communication
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
April 26-28, 2018
Call for papers
U2 Conference 2018
Belfast
13-15 June 2018
2017 IASPM Book Prize
Winner Announcement
Award: Jeremy Wade Morris, Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture (University of California Press, 2015)
Award: Berenice Corti, Jazz Argentino: La música “negra” del país “blanco” (Gourmet Musical, 2015)
See the IASPM Book Prize page for previous winners and jury reports.
Scholar of Popular Music
School of Fine Art and Music
University of Guelph, Canada
The School of Fine Art and Music (SOFAM) at the University of Guelph is searching for a scholar of popular music, to teach in the areas of popular music, musicianship and/or music theory. With four full-time faculty members and over 20 adjunct instructors, the Music program at the University of Guelph is an undergraduate program offering a BA Honours degree. This is a tenure-track position to start either 1 August 2017 or 1 January 2018. Continue reading
Call for chapters
From State Control to Free Market: Transition of Eastern European Music Industries After the Fall of Communism
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2017
Call for expressions of interest to contribute a chapter to a book on transition of Eastern European music industries after the fall of communism Continue reading
Call for papers
Transnational Connections: Musical Dialogues Between Global Peripheries
International Summer Workshop
School of Arts, University of Haifa
3-4 July 2017
The Forum for Contemporary Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce our second international summer workshop, in conjunction with the Music Department, School of Arts, University of Haifa. The theme of the workshop will be “Transnational connections: musical dialogues between global peripheries”. While transnational frameworks often highlight exchanges along axes of center-periphery, global North-global South etc, we would like to illuminate musical dialogues that operate between peripheries. How might such thinking might contribute to novel understanding of musical activity in multiple localities? What are the methodological challenges that transnational fieldwork poses to ethnomusicologists? How do processes such as musicians’ translocation and music circulation that crisscross national and cultural boundaries change over historical periods? Continue reading