Welcome to The International Association for the Study of Popular Music UK and Ireland Branch

Participations Special Issue: Music and Audiences

Posted: May 17th, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Participations Special Issue: Music and Audiences

Proposals are sought for a special issue of Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies on music and audiences. The theme of this issue will be an examination of the music audience from a range of perspectives, with both theoretical and empirical research welcomed on all aspects of music and reception. The issue would also particularly be interested in proposals that consider music audiences in the context of debates over technology and the Internet, and in articles which focus on issues of genre, different music fan cultures, or the specifics and particularities of music audiences, due to contexts such as sexuality, generation or nationality.

Read the rest of this entry »


Hip Hop Samples Jazz

Posted: May 17th, 2011 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Hip Hop Samples Jazz

IMR Seminars: ‘Directions in Musical Research’. Thursday 2 June 2011, 5-6.30pm.
Senate House, Malet Street, London
South Block, Ground Floor, room G35
(Nearest tubes: Euston Square, Russell Square, Goodge Street)
http://music.sas.ac.uk/imr-events/imr-seminars.html#c1213

Tom Perchard (Goldsmiths): ‘Hip Hop Samples Jazz: Dynamics of Cultural Memory and Musical Tradition in the African American 1990s’

Read the rest of this entry »