Perspectives on Musical Improvisation Reminder‏

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Perspectives on Musical Improvisation
10-13 September 2012
University of Oxford

We have a small number of places still available at the conference, and so if you were interested in joining the event or had missed previous announcements, we would encourage you to book sooner rather than later. The conference brings together a rich set of perspectives on musical improvisation with papers approaching the subject from musicological, cognitive, psycho-social, philosophical, anthropological and pedagogical lenses representing a range of improvisatory genres. In addition to papers, there will be practical workshops and performances. Continue reading →

2012 National Graduate Student Conference British Forum for Ethnomusicology

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Music and Movement
2012 National Graduate Student Conference, British Forum for Ethnomusicology
12-14 September 2012
Institute for Music Research (IMR), London WC1

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Bull, University of Sussex

People and music are always moving. Whether across the dance floor, across town, or across borders, neither rests. Sometimes this movement is intentional, other times it is not. Musical movement may benefit some groups but be to the detriment of others. Music can mediate our experiences of movement and movement can mediate our experiences of music. Ultimately, the study of musical movement is the study of social relations. Continue reading →

‘This is the Modern World’: For a Social History of Rock Music‏

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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

In Anglo-American countries, the history of rock music has been institutionalized since the 1970s, notably in musicology and cultural studies departments. In France, on the contrary, it has been considered, until recently, as a rather minor subject, abandoned to journalists and amateurs. Continue reading →

Fourteenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association‏

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Call for papers
Fourteenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
20-23 June 2013
Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Submission Deadline: 1 November 2012

Convention Coordinators:
Corey Anton (antonc@gvsu.edu) Grand Valley State University
Valerie V. Peterson (petersov@gvsu.edu) Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley is happy to host the Media Ecology Association’s Fourteenth Annual Convention in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, 20-23 June 2013. Our aim is to provoke academic dialogue, raise public awareness of media ecology, and discuss the relevance of media ecological thought to the broader culture. The Fourteenth Annual Convention, with the theme of Media Ecology Unplugged, invites papers, panels, creative projects, and other proposals presenting research and/or exploring topics and ideas related to the convention theme. Continue reading →

Faculty Positions Music NYU Abu Dhabi

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New York University
Abu Dhabi campus

NYU Abu Dhabi seeks leading scholars for tenured, tenure-track or contract appointments in its Music program in 1) musicology and/or in 2) ethnomusicology, with a preference for those with an expertise in music of the Middle Eastern region, and 3) performance, a professional with the ability to organize a performance program. Continue reading →

Assistant Professor Communication Studies York University‏

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Position Rank: Full Time Tenure Stream – Assistant Professor
Discipline/Field: Communication Studies, York University
Home Faculty: Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Home Department/Area/Division: Communication Studies
Affiliation/Union: YUFA
Position Start Date: 1 July 2013

Applications are invited for a position in critical communication studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective 1 July 2013. Continue reading →

Hip Hop in Canada and Canadian Hip Hop‏

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Call for chapters
Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel: Hip Hop in Canada and Canadian Hip Hop
Edited by Dr. Charity Marsh and Dr. Mark V. Campbell

Can we confidently assert that there is such a thing as a hip hop nation in Canada? If so, what might this ‘nation’ look like given on-going colonial/settler relations, the nature of overlapping African diasporas, the increasing celebrations of multiculturalism, changing immigration policies, the rise of urban reserves, the on-going threat of francophone separatism, and disparate geographic realities from coast to coast to coast? Or would it be more useful to articulate hip hop in Canada and Canadian hip hop within the framework of Benedict Anderson’s ‘imagined communities’ or through the lens of ‘diasporic sensibilities’ as recently suggested by Murray Forman? Is Rinaldo Walcott’s assertion of Canadian hip hop as subversive and insubordinate vis-a-vis the Canadian state a productive place to begin our critical inquiry? Continue reading →

Patti Smith – Special Issue of Profils Américains

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Call for articles
Patti Smith
Special issue Profils Américains

Contributions are sought for a special issue of Profils Américains, a biannual journal in English published by Montpellier University, France, entirely devoted to Patti Smith’s artistry.

At this point we are looking for contributions more specifically focusing on:

• Patti Smith’s later production (post Dream of Life), and particularly her latest album (Banga) and books (Auguries of Innocence, Just Kids, The Coral Sea).

• Her visual arts production (photography, painting, drawing) and her artistic connection with Robert Mapplethorpe.

Deadline for proposals: 30 October 2012

Please send a 300-word outline to: claude.chastagner@univ-montp3.fr

2013 IASPM-US Annual Conference

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Call for papers
Liminality & Borderlands
2013 IASPM-US Annual Conference
Austin, Texas
28 February–3 March 2013

Crossover stars, vampires and zombies, gender-bending divas and divos, international sensations who truck cultural ideas across borders: popular music and culture are full of performers and characters who move through and effectively occupy zones of “in-betweenness”, carrying signifiers of more than one identity at a time while fully embodying none. In light of the many pop culture projects that inhabit these less-definite stations and/or spread across and blur boundaries, the 2013 IASPM-US Conference in Austin, TX, will explore the ideas of liminality & borderlands in popular music, focusing on those things (artists, genres, textures, developments, etc.) that are “neither” and “both” at the same time. Continue reading →