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 →

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 →