Live Music Exchange, Leeds: Interesting Times for Local Live Music‏

Posted on February 18, 2012 by IASPM webmaster

Call for papers
4-5 May 2012
Venue Bar Meeting Room, Leeds College of Music, Leeds

A conference to mark the start of a new AHRC-funded initiative: the Live Music Exchange, a knowledge transfer project emerging from three years of wide-ranging research into the social, cultural, historical and economic dimensions of live music. For more information about the Live Music Exchange, please see http://www.livemusicexchange.org

This conference is designed to forge links between industry and the academy by examining the issues facing those working at the front-line of local live music, and exploring the ways in which academic research can encourage and assist a vibrant and sustainable live music ecology. Continue reading →

Lecturer in Popular Music

Posted on February 15, 2012 by IASPM webmaster

University of Huddersfield
Lecturer in music and the moving image

The ideal person will have teaching skills that would cover popular music as well as some area of music and the moving image. This may be theory, practice, or a mix of the two.

Further information: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADY556/senior-lecturer-in-music-technology-music-

David Sanjek Archive‏

Posted on February 11, 2012 by IASPM webmaster

This is posted on behalf of Dave Sanjek’s family.

Dear Family & Friends,

A campus-wide memorial service for Professor David Sanjek will be held on Thursday, February 23 from 11 am to 2 pm at the University of Salford in Salford, England.

David passed away on November 29, 2011 in New York while en route to the annual meeting of the Historic Recording Preservation Board at the US Library of Congress, a board on which he had served for the past ten years. Continue reading →

Master of Music degree at Texas State University – Mariachi and Salsa tracks

Posted on February 5, 2012 by IASPM webmaster

Texas State University offers a 36-hour Master of Music degree with emphases in either Latin Music Performance or Latin Music Education, and tracks in either Mariachi or Salsa music. The program includes specialized courses in Salsa and Mariachi arranging, vocal and instrumental techniques, ensembles, and history and research. For degree plans, media, and info on the award-winning ensembles Salsa del Rio and Mariachi Nueva Generacion, please visit http://latin.music.txstate.edu or contact John Lopez (johnlopez@txstate.edu).

33 1/3 Book Series

Posted on February 4, 2012 by IASPM webmaster

Call for proposals
33 1/3 book series
Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is thrilled to announce a call for new proposals for the acclaimed 33 1/3 book series, previously published by Continuum (Bloomsbury acquired Continuum in July 2011). Continue reading →

IASPM 17th Biennial Conference‏

Posted on February 4, 2012 by IASPM webmaster

Call for papers
Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Challenging Orthodoxies
IASPM 17th Biennial Conference
24-28 June 2013
Universidad de Oviedo
Place: Gijón, Spain

The popular music studies field in all its inter-disciplinarity has been characterised by encounter, dialogue and exchange, and also by tension. Our title ‘Bridge Over Troubled Waters’ takes the triple metaphor of bridge, inferring meetings and communication; trouble, indicating stresses and power struggles; and water, indicating flow and travel, as fertile themes for debate at the 17th Biennial IASPM Conference. We propose five streams (TRACKS) dealing with popular music and history, marginality, copyright, collectivities, and space. Extending across all streams is the topic of technology. Continue reading →

Virtual Bands, Virtual Music

Posted on January 30, 2012 by IASPM webmaster

Call for chapters
Virtual Bands, Virtual Music
Deadline for proposals: 31 May 2012

Shara Rambarran and Sheila Whiteley are seeking contributions from the wide spectrum of musicology and social sciences for an edited text on Virtual Bands, Virtual Music that will reflect upon its origins, its characters, its music(s), its scattered identity, its legacy, its worldwide membership and circulation. How can we define aesthetically, culturally, politically, and ideologically the concept and meaning of virtual bands? To what extent is contemporary popular music driven by the digital media (Internet, digital music distribution, consumption), music technology (sampling, remix, MP3), and creative artistic technology (music video, performance, virtual groups)? Continue reading →

IASPM-US and Pop Conference details now posted‏

Posted on January 30, 2012 by IASPM webmaster

Details on this year’s joint IASPM-US and EMP Pop Conference, “Sounds of the City,” which is being held March 22 – 25 at NYU’s Kimmel Center, can now be found at the EMP website, including bios and abstracts for almost 300 presenters from many backgrounds.

Registration is completely free, so please attend if you can.

BAPMAF Archives Accra Flood Disaster Report

Posted on January 26, 2012 by IASPM webmaster

Update from John Collins on the Accra flood disaster
BAPMAF webpage
Information on donations

It’s now almost three months since the disastrous Accra floods of October 26th hit my house and the BAPMAF music archives. So in this letter I want to update the situation and also thank the people who contributed through sympathetic and morale-boosting emails and through financial donations and other forms of support. Continue reading →

4th Music and Media Meeting

Posted on January 25, 2012 by IASPM webmaster

Call for papers
Music and Media
28-29 June 2012
Università di Torino, Turin

The IMS study group ‘Music and Media’ (MaM) will hold its fourth international meeting in Turin at the Università di Torino, as pre-conference to the IMS Rome 2012 conference. One of the themes will be ‘Unheard Melodies: 25 years’. This session will thematize a retrospective on Claudia Gorbman’s groundbreaking book on the role of narrative film music. Continue reading →