Posted: January 21st, 2012 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »
An interdisciplinary conference to be hosted at Northumbria University in conjunction with the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster June 27th-28th 2012.
Ireland and Britain share in large measure a common, if disputed, history. Ireland is, of course, a former colony of Britain, and Northern Ireland is still part of the United Kingdom so that one of the conundrums of the Irish experience is that it is both post-colonial and neo-colonial; national and regional; periphery and centre. Irish popular music, therefore, displays a complex set of sometimes contradictory characteristics, and Irish artists and musicians work within and against such an intricate web of social, economic, political and cultural influences that their art and music raises dizzying questions about national identity.
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Posted: January 10th, 2012 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »
A One Day Symposium: Friday 22nd June 2012
Binks Building
University of Chester, England
From Cadillacs to tour buses, motor vehicles and popular music have developed in parallel as symbiotic commodities. Their intimate and intertwined relationship evokes issues and feelings that characterize life in modern society. The conference aims to outline and discuss this relationship between these two culturally charged commodities. Motor transport is a dominant feature of the modern world. Cars, buses, trucks and everything in between have their followers and dissenters. Vehicles offer the functions of mobility, freedom, speed and comfort, but they are not just physical machines. Contemporary and historic brands offer consumers opportunities to display status, belonging, style and choice. Social and utilitarian elements combine within a motor aesthetic that provides individuals with entry into particular imagined communities. A multiplicity of brands and logos symbolizes the various styles, designs and attitudes that are now a global currency. Advertising and marketing have elevated the social place of particular vehicles to objects of fantasy, desire, status and play. Just as motor vehicles are referenced in popular music, so music is a part of automobile culture and design.
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Posted: December 15th, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »
Call for papers
2nd and 3rd March 2012, The Arches, Glasgow
A festival of sound and performance and associated research, run by postgraduate students from Glasgow University in partnership with The Arches, welcomes papers from researchers of any discipline.
Sound Thought 2012 considers the idea of music as gift: What value has this? What is offered and what is returned? What is at stake in the exchange? Does giving diminish the giver? Do gifts require justification or is it the thought that counts?
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Posted: November 21st, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »
Journal on the Art of Record Production ISSN: 1754-9892
CALL FOR ARTICLES
Issue #8: Technology, Time and Place
The newly reworked Journal on the Art of Record Production invites proposals for Issue #8: Technology, Time and Place. Technologies are central – and essential – to sound and music recording and production processes. Over time, technological change has impacted on roles, working practice[s] and the recording and production workplace. Indeed, notions of time impact on production processes in a multitude of ways. From the macro, e.g. time and economics, time spent in pre-production, time allocated to sessions/ roles, performance time and time signatures, to the micro, e.g. the intricacies of time-based effects processing and the capability of DAWs to manipulate and ‘edit’ time by means including quantization, programming and time-stretching. Over time, the workplace has evolved from a basic, acoustically-treated facility, through church conversions, the ‘Westlake’ studio style and home set-ups, to today’s portable desktop/ laptop-based production centre; the ‘studio’ has undergone immense transformation in little over a century. Studies of technology and/ or workplace may be chronological, diachronic or synchronic in approach. Research is welcome from sociological, cultural theoretical, scientific, musicological, philosophical and anthropological perspectives.
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Posted: November 9th, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | No Comments »
Biennial IASPM-UK/Ireland conference
September 7-9, 2012
Salford University
Albion … Chocolate City … Highway 61 … Route 66 … Wonderland … Strawberry Fields … the Crossroads … Beale Street … Haight Ashbury … Music City U.S.A.
Popular music has always been affiliated with physical places, both literal and imaginary. It is one of the ways that the inhabitants of those locations define both their residence and themselves. To borrow the components of the title of Benedict Anderson’s widely read book, one of the most telling ways communities imagine themselves is acoustically. An indissoluble connection exists between musical expression and geography, both the landscape of actual locale and that conjured up by the mind. The persistent academic interest in the notion of scenes reflects this set of circumstances. So too does the research that examines how the state defines itself sonically and, in some cases, pursues its objectives with the assistance of acoustic apparatus, as in the torture of prisoners by a barrage of undesired sound. In addition, there are those composers, performers, compositions and performance practices that are thought to be quintessential expressions of states, peoples or defined populations.
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