Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre 2012 Research Festival
19-22 November 2012
South Bank, Brisbane, Australia
This is a FREE public event open to all local, national and international academics, students, organisations and individual participants with a keen interest in music research and practice. Download the event flyer and program for more information.
Call for articles
Grainger Studies
Issue #3
Submissions are now sought for issue #3 (to be published in 2013) of Grainger Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Please download the flyer for details. Continue reading
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Music
School of Music, Research School of Humanities and the Arts
College of Arts and Social Sciences
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT, Australia
Situated in a magnificent purpose-built building in the heart of Australia’s leading research University, the ANU School of Music is seeking Lecturers and Senior Lecturers in Music who have an emerging or established record of research and research-led teaching and performance. Continue reading
Journal on the Art of Record Production
Publication of Issue 7: Technology, Time and Place
www.arpjournal.com
We are pleased to announce the online publication of Issue 7: Technology, Time and Place
The issue opens with Dr. Mark Katz and Dr. Samantha Bennett’s editorial and includes: 10 articles; Ken Scott, Kevin Doyle and Dave Fisher interviews; a review of Allan Moore’s new book Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Popular Recorded Song; and a review of Ken Scott’s EpiK DrumS – A Ken Scott Collection.
Read more at www.arpjournal.com
Rosalind Franklin Fellowship
Theatre Studies or Music Studies
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
We would like to draw your attention to the Rosalind Franklin Fellowships, a special tenure track programme for talented women scholars at the University of Groningen. The Department of Arts, Culture and Media is currently seeking a specialist either in Theatre Studies, preferably in combination with new media, or in Music Studies (popular music, ethnomusicology). These Fellowships offer short-term tenure track positions with limited teaching assignments. Continue reading
Call for papers
‘This is the Modern World’: For a Social History of Rock Music
International Conference
University Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3 (Lille, France)
13-15 June 2013
The deadline for submissions to the conference has been extended to 15 November. Please see the original CFP post for further details.
Call for papers
The Cultural Memory of Sound and Space
The 17th Finnish Music Researchers’ Symposium
Turku
13–15 March 2013
The myriad forms of music and modes of musical performance on offer today have prompted debate about the materials and methods of music research. Uses of music in different media, for example, raise questions about the relationship between music and space. In addition, new interpretations have been offered about the boundaries between music and sound. The temporal dimension, too, has garnered the attention of researchers; particularly how time is bound up with musical cultures and experiences of music. Continue reading
Call for papers
Music in TV Series
University of Nantes
International Conference
30 and 31 May 2013
Organized by the Atlantic Center for Philosophy
Call for papers on the following issues: Continue reading
Associate Lecturer
Contemporary Music
Southern Cross University, Lismore Campus, Australia
Vacancy ID: 12119
Appointment Type: Part-time (50%), continuing
Salary: $28,389 – $38,366 per annum plus leave loading and employer’s contribution to superannuation
Open to: Australian or New Zealand citizens or Australian permanent residents. Indigenous Australians are encouraged to apply. Continue reading
Call for papers
Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound
University of Stellenbosch (South Africa)
9-11 September 2013
‘We live in densely storiated landscapes […there are] song-lines, if you will, joining place to place.’ (Robert Macfarlane)
Landscapes are divided and dissonant sites of private and collective being. They bear traces of present, past and future ambitions, injustices, and interventions. And yet, their grammars and sounds, whether intimate, commodified or instrumentalised, push at the limits of theory and representation and simultaneously construct systems of aesthetic, ideological, historical and political appropriation. Continue reading