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Call for Papers:
IASPM UK and Ireland Branch Biannual Conference
Popular Music Studies: Problems, Disputes, Questions
University of Glasgow, 12-14 September 2008
The biennial conference of the UK and Ireland branch of IASPM will be hosted by the Department of Music at the University of Glasgow between 12 and 14 September 2008.
Conference Theme
The aim of this conference is to address the issues that have in recent years excited most conversation and disagreement among IASPM members. Papers are invited on three topics in particular:
Music and National Identity
When, if ever, can music usefully be described in national terms? (English or Scottish folk? Welsh or Irish rock?) What are the problems of national music policies? Should popular music studies reject the concept of the nation entirely? Are concepts of ‘ethnic’ or ‘hybrid’ music any more valid? How is the nation gendered within popular music?
Popular Music Theory
Does popular music studies ‘lack theory’? What sort of theory do we need? What are the most useful theoretical concepts in the field? Which the most redundant? Has gender been under-theorised within Popular Music Studies? What is or should be the relationship between academic/theoretical approaches to popular music and vocational/practical approaches?
The Musical Experience
What is a musical experience? How are people’s responses to music determined? How/why do they change over time? How does gender impact on the musical experience? What can we learn about musical subjectivity and response from psychologists of music? Is popular music necessarily a source of pleasure?
Proposals Paper
Proposals are invited on these topics—and on any other issue of popular music debate. Proposals will be welcomed from any perspective, using any methodology and addressing any kind of music. Papers should last for 20 minutes and the conference organisers will be asking chairs to keep to this limit.
Guest Speakers
Guest speakers at the conference will include Professor Simon Frith (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Allan Moore (University of Surrey) in debate, and Bill Drummond (formerly of the KLF). In addition John Williamson (manager of Belle and Sebastian) will present a discussion of the Glasgow music scene with local musicians.
Social Events
The conference will feature a Civic Reception at Glasgow City Halls and a Saturday evening social at a local venue.
Other Information
Glasgow has one of the most vibrant music scenes in the UK, having in the past few years produced acts such as Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand and The Fratellis. It has a great range of venues including The Barrowland Ballroom, King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, the Academy, the ABC, Barfly, the Garage, the (Renfrew) Ferry, the Royal Concert Hall and the SECC. It also boasts a highly diverse music scene with significant dance, country and western and folk scenes. For more information see: http://www.seeglasgow.com/seeglasgow/photo-gallery/cityofmusic The conference will be located at the University of Glasgow which is located in the West End of the City. This location is host to a range of excellent restaurants, bars, pubs and venues all of which are in walking distance of the venue.
Organising Committee
A local Organising Committee has been established consisting of: Martin Cloonan (University of Glasgow Simon Frith (University of Edinburgh) Raymond MacDonald (Glasgow Caledonian University) Mark Percival (Queen Margaret University) John Williamson (University of Glasgow)
Submitting Proposals
Proposals should include the name and contact details (email) of the proposer, the tile of the proposal and an abstract of no more than 150 words. Please send proposals to Martin Cloonan – M.Cloonan@music.gla.ac.uk. The deadline for proposals is 1 May 2008. Website The conference website will be updated regularly. It can be found at: http://www.music.gla.ac.uk/iaspm/
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Call for Papers
Music and Politics Graduate Conference
University of California, Santa Barbara
April 5-6, 2008
The UCSB Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) is seeking submissions for the 2008 “Music and Politics” Graduate Conference to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara on April 5-6, 2008. This interdisciplinary conference—run by graduate students, for graduate students—will focus on the many facets of the convergence of music and politics.
We anticipate that possible topics could include:
• music and war
• music and torture
• music and class/race/gender/sexuality
• music and the body
• music as a unifying or dividing force
• music and oppositional practice
• the politics of listening to and/or making music
• use of music in (re)defining nations/states
• use of music to influence or control public opinion
• music and corporate culture
• music and mass media
• music, aesthetics, and cultural capital
• music in the academy and the politics of pedagogy
• (de)colonization of music
A selection of papers from the conference will be published in the August 2008 issue of Music & Politics.
Please send a 200-300 word abstract of your paper to musicandpolitics@gmail.com no later than January 15, 2008. Include the abstract as an attachment and place it in the body of the email. Paper presentations will be allotted twenty minutes, with an additional ten minutes for questions and answers.
Details on travel, accommodations and the keynote address will be forthcoming. Any questions regarding the conference may also be sent to the above address. Updated information will be posted on our website: http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/CISM/musicandpoliticsconference/
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Call For Papers
Nick Cave Conference
The University of Westminster
July 5-6 2008
The University of Westminster in London, U.K., proposes to host a two-day conference on the work and career of renowned Australian singer- songwriter Nick Cave on July 5-6, 2008. Proposals for papers are welcomed. The conference will primarily focus on Cave as a lyricist and songwriter, but other perspectives - musical, cultural, critical - will be most welcome.
Please submit proposals (300 words max.) to Dr John Baker at bakerj_at_westminster.ac.uk by November 30, 2007. Informal preliminary enquiries are also welcome.
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Call For Contributions:
“No Time For Losers. Canonisations in Popular Music”
Ed. by Dietrich Helms and Thomas Phleps (Beitraege zur Popularmusikforschung Vol. 36).
The "Arbeitskreis Studium Populaere Musik" (ASPM) invites German and English submissions for an edited volume on theoretical and empirical essays on the canonisations in popular music.
We encourage any number of approaches, e.g. literary and cultural studies, musicology, sociology, psychology, aesthetics, media and communication studies dealing with current or historical forms of canonisation of pop, rock, soul, jazz, folk, hip hop, blues, etc.
Here are a few possible topics:
- functions of canonisation
- the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- canonisations in music journalism
- Museums dedicated to popular music and their effect on pop canons
- Best of all Times-Lists
- DeLuxe-Editions of canonical works (e.g., Pet Sounds, Velvet Underground & Nico...)
- Historiography of popular music and canonisation
- aspects of ideology, e.g. historicism
- issues of power, cultural capital and discourse analysis
- the role of the internet - canons as a form of orientation in times of file-sharing and the iPod
- the role of the white/male rock canon in non-western cultures
- historical origins
- aspects of gender and sexism
- alternative canons, processes of de-canonisation
- re-canonisations
Articles of 5,000 - 7,000 words should be sent to the editors:
Thomas Phleps (Thomas.Phleps@musik.uni-giessen.de) and Dietrich Helms (Dietrich.Helms@uni-osnabrueck.de).
All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Inclusion in the book requires a positive review. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Deadline for submissions is February 29th 2008.
The volume "No Time For Losers" will be published by Transcript ( Bielefeld , Germany ) in September 2008 as volume 36 of the "Beitraege zur Popularmusikforschung" series (http://www.transcript-verlag.de/main/prg_kul_pop.htm).
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Call for Papers
Exploring New Media Worlds: Changing Technologies, Industries, Cultures, and Audiences in Global and Historical Context
An international conference hosted by Texas A&M University, February 29 to March 2, 2008 Integrating fields of study in a time of change; setting a new agenda for media studies.
Papers and proposals are invited on any aspect of the conference themes, offering reports of new research, position-taking conceptual essays, discussions of media and telecommunication policy, and both international and historical comparisons on changing technologies, industries, cultures, and audiences.
The program will include keynote speakers, roundtable discussions, thematic panels, prominent scholars as respondents, and time for interaction. A wide selection of papers from the conference will be published.
Travel grants are available for student members of the National Communication Association (see our webpage for more information).
Send papers or proposals (abstracts or annotated outlines) with a 50 word professional biography by email attachment to mediaworlds@libarts.tamu.edu. Panel proposals are also acceptable.
Deadline: November 20, 2007.
For more information see http://comm.tamu.edu/mediaworlds
email mediaworlds@libarts.tamu.edu or Rothenbuhler@tamu.edu.
Keynote speakers: Larry Grossberg; Steve Jones; Vinny Mosco; and Ellen Seiter. Confirmed participants: Carole Blair, Sandra Braman, Celeste Condit, Bruce Gronbeck, Andrea Press, Ronald Rice, Paddy Scannell, Joseph Turow, Angharad Valdivia. And the Texas A&M faculty: Patrick Burkart, Heidi Campbell, Antonio La Pastina, Srivi Ramasubramanian, Eric Rothenbuhler, Michael Stephenson, Randy Sumpter, and Ian Weber plus strong faculty groups in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Health Communication, and Organizational Communication.
The Exploring New Media Worlds conference is hosted and co-sponsored by the Department of Communication, the College of Liberal Arts, the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, and the Program in Presidential Rhetoric, Texas A&M University, with support from the National Communication Association.
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Call For Articles
Theorizing the Boss: Critical Readings of the Songs of Bruce Springsteen
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume of critical theoretical essays on Bruce Springsteen's work. We encourage a wide range of approaches, particularly literary and cultural studies, but chapters should be written in a style accessible to a non-academic audience.
Chapters might use any number of theoretical approaches to consider relevant themes in Springsteen's oeuvre. Here are a few possible themes:
- Readings of genre, including the dramatic monologue
- American voices: the American dream, Manifest Destiny, or American Ideals versus American Reality
- Prophecy and visionary voices
- Narratives of the immigrant and oppressed
- The nuclear family and conservatism
- Considerations of violence
- Springsteen as Catholic apologist/liturgist
- We are especially eager for readings of Springsteen's work alongside the work of those writers and musicians who have most influenced him, including, but not limited to, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan.
Please send a 500-word proposal and full vita to Roxanne Harde (rharde@augustana.ca) and Irwin Streight (streight-i@rmc.ca) by 7 January 2008.
Upon acceptance, articles of around 8000 words will be due 1 June 2008. Please feel free to get in touch with any questions.
Dr. Roxanne Harde,
Assistant Professor University of Alberta,
Augustana Faculty 4901 - 46 Avenue,
Camrose,
Alberta T4V 2R3 206 North Hall,
780-679-1579 |
