Posted: October 11th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Prince from Minneapolis
A Symposium at the University of Minnesota
April 16-18, 2018
Prince was proud to hail from Minneapolis. Continuing to live and work there, he put the city firmly on the map of the music industry through the Minneapolis Sound. Until his unexpected death on April 21, 2016, he hosted parties for local fans at his Paisley Park studio. Prince is probably the only global megastar who has remained so embedded in the cultural life of their hometown.
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Posted: October 4th, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on The U2 Conference
U2: POPVision 2018
CFP Deadline: December 15, 2017
Conference date: June 13-15, 2018
Conference venue: Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Website: http://u2conference.com
Call for Presentations: Papers, Panels, Posters, Performances and Chairs
The U2 Conference, in partnership with The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast, and Fitzroy Presbyterian Church, will meet 13-15 June 2018 in Belfast, on the theme U2: POPVision. The conference is open to all scholars, critics, teachers, students, composers, performers and fans, and invites all disciplinary interests to explore the music, work and influence of U2, giving particular attention to U2’s Pop era of 1997-98 from a perspective some 20 years on.
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Posted: October 2nd, 2017 | Filed under: Calls for Papers, IASPM Conferences | Comments Off on Gathering Diversities, Sounding Justice
IASPM-Canada Annual Conference
University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
May 27-29, 2018
Submission deadline: November 30, 2017
The 2018 IASPM-CA annual conference will take place at the University of Regina from May 27-29 in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which has announced “Gathering Diversities” as its theme (the Congress theme is described at https://www.uregina.ca/congress2018/theme.html). In conversation with this broader theme, IASPM-CA encourages participants to explore questions concerning popular music, its aims and claims regarding diversity, and its impact in promoting equity in a wide range of contexts and scenes. Diversity has long been a stated goal for institutions, organizations, and communities of all types, yet diversity remains a complex and contested issue, particularly in the field of popular music. To what extent does popular music productively model and promote diversity, and to what extent does diversity extend beyond surface appearances to institutional structures? To what extent is diversity in itself a laudable goal if not accompanied by equity and social justice? How do popular music and popular music studies either promote or impede diversity, equity, and social justice?
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