Music, Style, and Aging

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New book
Music, Style, and Aging: Growing Old Disgracefully?
Andy Bennett

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The image of the aging rock-and-roller is not just Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger on stage in their sixties. In his timely book, Music, Style, and Aging, cultural sociologist Andy Bennett explains how people move on from youth and effectively grow older with popular music. For many aging followers of rock, punk, and other contemporary popular music genres, music is ingrained in their identities. Its meaning is highly personal and intertwined with the individual’s biographical development. Bennett studies these fans and how they have changed over time – through fashions, hairstyles, body modification, career paths, political orientations, and perceptions of and by the next generation. The significance of popular music for these fans is no longer tied exclusively to their youth. Bennett illustrates how the music that ‘mattered’ most to people in their youth continues to play an important role in their adult lives – a role that goes well beyond nostalgia.

Music, Politics, and Violence

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New book
Music, Politics, and Violence
Edited by Susan Fast and Kip Pegley

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Music and violence have been linked since antiquity in ritual, myth, and art. Considered together they raise fundamental questions about creativity, discourse, and music’s role in society. The essays in this collection investigate a wealth of issues surrounding music and violence – issues that cross political boundaries, time periods, and media – and provide cross-cultural case studies of musical practices ranging from large-scale events to regionally specific histories. Following the editors’ substantive introduction, which lays the groundwork for conceptualizing new ways of thinking about music as it relates to violence, three broad themes are followed: the first set of essays examines how music participates in both overt and covert forms of violence; the second section explores violence and reconciliation; and the third addresses healing, post-memorials, and memory. Music, Politics, and Violence affords space to look at music as an active agent rather than as a passive art, and to explore how music and violence are closely – and often uncomfortably – entwined.

Lecturer Screen Music

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Lecturer Screen Music
Australian Film Television and Radio School
Australia’s national screen arts and broadcast school
Closes: 23 January 2013

Part-time – 5 days per fortnight; 3-Year contract; $67,575 to $92,844 pa (full-time equivalent)

We are seeking a professional practitioner with experience in composing for the screen to take on this role combining teaching with curriculum development and research. As Lecturer you will have the opportunity to teach and mentor exceptionally talented students. To do this effectively, relevant experience in teaching and/or training, as well as an understanding of music composition, arrangement, recording and production processes, is essential. To be successful you must be an effective communicator with a collaborative approach, and qualifications in a relevant field will be considered an advantage. Continue reading →

Beyond “No Future”: A German Punk Reader

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Call for chapters
Beyond “No Future”: A German Punk Reader
Edited by Mirko Hall, Seth Howes, and Cyrus Shahan

Punk rock has had quite a decade. Exhibition catalogues, photographic retrospectives, CD box sets, and sold-out reunion tours attest to the central role punk continues to play in stories we tell about the ’70s and ’80s, about their politics, and about their culture. If punk comes from England, it has always been equally at home in Germany, where punk scenes, zine networks, and record labels appeared almost as quickly as they had in Britain and the United States. In Germany, as in Britain and the United States, new archives, museum exhibits, and discography projects have emerged which are devoted exclusively to punk and to thinking about what punk meant for its own historical moment and might still mean for ours. Continue reading →

Researching Music Censorship

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Call for papers
Researching Music Censorship
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
6-8 June 2013
Deadline: 6 February 2013

Music censorship is a relatively new area of research and as a scholarly field of study it is a disputed issue. This is so because it involves a large range of intertwined components and because in discourses over censorship it is generally difficult to pinpoint the relation between cause and effect. The immanent versatility of the concept – as well as its practical dimensions – calls for a multidisciplinary approach. Further it has proven vitally important to understand the process as a political and social phenomenon resting on various aspects like race, gender, religion and class and the intricate power relations involved in the concept/phenomenon of freedom of expression in relation to music and musicians and to an overarching relation between human rights and musical performance in its broadest sense. Continue reading →

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Emergent Media

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Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Emergent Media
Program in Media and Screen Studies
Department of Art + Design
Northeastern University

The Program in Media and Screen Studies and the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University invite applications and nominations for a joint appointment as an Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Emergent Media, beginning in the fall, 2013. Continue reading →

Director – Center for Popular Music‏

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Director
Center for Popular Music
Middle Tennessee State University

The Center for Popular Music is a major research facility at Middle Tennessee State University. There are more than one million items in the Center’s archives, including 200,000 sound recordings, over 100,000 pieces of sheet music, 11,000 photographs, one of America’s largest collection of songsheet broadsides, manuscripts, scores, theater/dance band arrangements, gospel song books, tunebooks, etc. Continue reading →

Music Theory / Jazz Artist Position

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Music Theory / Jazz Artist
Department of Theatre and Music
University of Illinois at Chicago
Deadline: 18 January 2013

The Department of Theatre and Music at the University of Illinois at Chicago seeks a distinguished jazz artist with strong teaching skills in the areas of theory and performance beginning August 2013. The position will be a full-time appointment as Assistant Professor, tenure track. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses in common practice and 20th century theory, ear-training, counterpoint, analytic techniques, and applied jazz performance. The individual must maintain an active professional career as a jazz performer and jazz composer and/or scholar. All faculty are expected to serve on committees and assist in student advising and recruitment. Continue reading →

Music, Fashion and Style‏

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Call for articles
Music, Fashion and Style
Special issue of Journal of Fashion, Style & Popular Culture
Editor: Jessica Strubel

This issue of Fashion, Style and Popular Culture will take an in-depth look at the interface of popular music and style in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The sartorial element of music subcultures is basic to subcultural identity in that dress is a visual language that reflects the shared understandings of a culture. Continue reading →