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

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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 →

Piracy and Social Change

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Call for articles
Piracy and Social Change
Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture
Co-editors: Patrick Burkart and Jonas Andersson Schwarz

The editors of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture invite submissions for a special issue on the topic of piracy and social change.

Scholarship on piracy and pirates is itself changing, partly in recognition of the fact that “pirate” culture and everyday culture increasingly mix in popular communication. Piracy reflects social changes that transgress legally proscribed orders, while the “piracy” label itself is often used to shore up support for entrenched political and economic interests. For this special issue, we solicit contributions that take a novel and inquisitive approach to piracy and popular communication, while also mapping the current state of the field. Contributors can focus on one or more communicative aspects of piracy, such as pirate cultures, practices, politics, aesthetics, ethics, law and policy, and modernities. Continue reading →

Interview with Simon Frith

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Interview with Simon Frith
Live Music Exchange

IASPM members may be interested in an interview conducted with Simon Frith in which he discusses the interaction of popular music and politics, and outlines his reflections on the early days of IASPM.

The interview can be found at: http://livemusicexchange.org/blog/simon-frith-and-politics-an-interview/

Please also take time to look around the Live Music Exchange website while you’re there.