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A conference to mark the completion of the AHRC funded project ‘The Promotion of Live Music in the UK–an Historical, Cultural and Institutional Analysis’ – University of Edinburgh, March 31/April 1 2011.
We invite papers on any aspect of the business of live music from any disciplinary perspective. Themes for discussion include the history of live music, promotion as a business, live music and the state, the value of live music, and the live musical experience. Papers on any kind of music are welcome, classical or popular, successful or obscure! Presentations will be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes and proposals should be no more than 200 words.
Closing date for proposals: September 1 2010.
For further information please contact Simon Frith ([email protected]) or Martin Cloonan ([email protected]).
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »
Dec 2-3, 2010
University of Wollongong http://uow.edu.au , Wollongong, Australia
In a media saturated environment, questions about authoriality and the ownership of cultural content have come to be increasingly urgent. A number of recent, high profile legal cases have highlighted the difficulties involved in adjudicating between different models of ownership and of cultural production. Furthermore, online environments render local, fannish, and ‘amateur’ forms of cultural production (frequently drawing on ‘Big Content’) increasingly visible – sometimes to the apparent detriment of these forms of vernacular creativity.
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A conference at The Open University, 11-12 November, 2010
Keynote speaker: Guthrie Ramsey, Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania and author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (2003).
Emerging at the confluence of diverse streams, the genre we know as jazz was made predominantly by African-Americans for a good deal of its history. Indeed, African-American musicians and critics have often claimed the form as their own, part of their people’s struggle to assert their humanity in the face of a racialised structure of power which would deny it. However, year by year this position grows more difficult to sustain as jazz spreads around the world, and more musicians of other ethnic origins, and who are socially positioned in different ways, enter the field. Often they bring their own distinct musical and cultural resources to bear on the problem of making jazz. Meanwhile, of course, racial oppression persists in western and other societies.
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Conference, 18/19 February 2011, University of Glasgow
Keynote address: John Altman
Jazz historiography has traditionally revolved around sound recordings, with still images, written documents and oral histories employed as complementary sources.
Although this approach has generally been regarded as successful, there is growing awareness among scholars of the problematic nature of such heavy reliance on sound recordings. In particular, it has obscured aspects of the music and the cultural practices surrounding it that are not apparent from sound recordings, and has led to the marginalisation of musicians who did not produce their best work in the recording studio.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »
Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, the journal of ASLE-UK (the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment), explores interdisciplinary interfaces between humans and the natural and built environment. Submissions are invited for our summer 2011 edition which will focus on music.
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Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | No Comments »
‘Situating Popular Musics’
Grahamstown South Africa, Monday 27 June until Friday 1 July, 2011
For its 17th biennial conference, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) invites papers which explore the many ways of situating popular music in the light of IASPM celebrating its 30th year. The opening plenary will be given by Philip Tagg, IASPM founder.
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Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »
Special Issue on Popular Music and Marketing
Submissions are invited for a special issue of Popular Music and Society, which will focus on the theme of popular music and marketing. While the subject of popular music and marketing has been a regular focus of business, marketing, and advertising research, there have been relatively few critical and cultural studies in this area. This special issue aims to explore and critically interrogate the various intersections of popular music and marketing, and the role of commerce in popular music culture. All disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical perspectives are welcome; possible themes might include:
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Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Filed under: News | No Comments »
Welcome to the new IASPM UK & Ireland branch website. We’re now fully equipped with all the mod cons: we have a completely redesigned layout; simple clear navigation; categories and searchable archives. You should now find it much easier to locate the information you’ll need in order to submit for conferences and journals.
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2-3 July 2010, Dortmund, Germany
For one whole year, the Ruhr Area will be European Capital of Culture. The extensive program in more than 50 cities will explore many different cultural phenomena. A key event located between scholarship and performance, the conference on “Hip-Hop on the Ruhr: Identities – Economies – Politics” will examine the cultural and economic significance of hip-hop in the Ruhr Area in an international context.
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Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »
Conference on sound studies
University of Aarhus, Denmark
September 23–25, 2010
Today, sound studies provide an important framework for furthering cultural research related to a broad range of historical and contemporary issues. Also, sound studies contribute to the understanding of currents in social and global activity increasingly determined by auditory, sonic, and communicative materiality. At the same time, the exploration of auditivity and auditory cultures raises a series of significant aesthetic, medial, historical, cultural, and theoretical questions.
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