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Riffs: Call for Proposals

Posted: July 26th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Riffs: Call for Proposals

Technology is something I love and hate at the same time. One one hand the absence of any kind of technology means silence (or an environment of natural sounds which we hear much clearer because of the general silence); on the other hand, you need technology to make art’.

Christina Kubisch, ‘Artists’ Statements II: Christina Kubisch’, in The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, ed. by Nick Collins and Julio d’Escriván, 2nd edn (Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2017:176)

This issue of Riffs will engage with music and technology, and the ways in which we communicate our insights, observations, engagements and relationships between them. As the journal title suggests, we are interested in pieces that take an experimental approach to the analytical consideration of popular music. For examples of pieces based on previous prompts, have a look through our current and past issues, available to download from our website – www.riffsjournal.org.

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Punk and the Sacred

Posted: July 26th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Punk and the Sacred

The Punk Scholars Network will be hosting a 1 -2 day symposium at Mansions of the Future (Lincoln, UK) on the 28th and 29th November 2019 on the theme of ‘Punk and the Sacred’ as part of the Punk Scholar’s Network’s series of themed symposiums.

The keynote will be delivered by Ross Haenfler.

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International Artistic Jazz Research Symposium

Posted: July 26th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on International Artistic Jazz Research Symposium

Date: 6 October, 2019
Venue: Jam Music Lab Private University Vienna, Guglgasse 8, Gasometer B, 1110 Vienna
Submission Deadline: 19 August 2019

In partnership with Institute for Jazz Research, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, and Jam Music Lab Private University for Jazz and Popular Music Vienna

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Imperfection as an Aesthetic Idea in Music: Perspectives from Musicology and Artistic Research

Posted: July 21st, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Imperfection as an Aesthetic Idea in Music: Perspectives from Musicology and Artistic Research

Venue: University for Music and the Performing Arts, Graz, Austria (Kunstuniversität Graz)
Dates: May 6 and 7th, 2020
Submission Deadline: 15 October 2019
Languages: English and German
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Seth Brodsky (University of Chicago)

Web address: https://musikaesthetik.kug.ac.at/institut-14-musikaesthetik/symposien/imperfection-as-an-aesthetic-idea-in-music.html

When we look to music, are we looking for perfection? Or does imperfection ultimately have more aesthetic value for us as practitioners and researchers? Historically, perfection has been treated with suspicion as an aesthetic idea in general.  Already in the 1757 On the Sublime and the Beautiful, Edmund Burke mused that “beauty in distress is the most affecting beauty”; Heinrich Kleist, in his 1810 On the Marionette Theater, further suggested that perfection in art only resided beyond the domain of the properly human.  In recent discussions of aesthetics in the more specific realm of music, however, the issue of imperfection has most often been discussed with primary reference to musical improvisation, although additional topics have sometimes been part of the discourse in musicology and artistic research.

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Researching Live Music: Gigs, Tours, Concerts and Festivals

Posted: July 11th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Researching Live Music: Gigs, Tours, Concerts and Festivals

Following publisher feedback, the previously advertised title of ‘Studying Live Music and Festivals’ has been amended to the following title, and is now under contract with Taylor & Francis/Routledge:

Researching Live Music: Gigs, Tours, Concerts and Festivals

Edited by:

Chris Anderton (Solent University, Southampton, UK)
Sergio Pisfil (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)

We would like to encourage scholars from all disciplines to present chapter proposals for research that relates to one of three broad areas of the live music ecology. First, research that reconsiders the role of technology in the production of music events. Second, research that examines the complex set of industries and issues that surround the promotion and business of live music. Finally, research that explores the social issues and factors involved in the consumption of live music performances. Our objective is to bring together solid methodological and theoretical positions to provide a critical resource that casts new light on the practices of live music – past or present, and from any part of the world. 

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Special issue of the Journal of Festive Studies on “The Materiality of Festivity”

Posted: July 9th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Special issue of the Journal of Festive Studies on “The Materiality of Festivity”

In previous issues, the Journal of Festive Studies explored the emerging academic sub-field of festive studies (broadly defined) and the politics of carnival. For this issue, we follow Peter-Paul Verbeek’s advice and look at “the things themselves,” i.e. at the material culture in which carnivals and other festivities are rooted (Verbeek, 2005).

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British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2020

Posted: July 8th, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2020

16-19 April 2020
Bath Spa University, Newton Park, Bath, UK

Keynote speaker: Dr Angela Impey (SOAS, University of London)

As with all BFE Annual Conferences we welcome papers and panels on any aspect of current ethnomusicological research.

The 2020 theme will be Music, Culture and Nature.

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78-88: Prince, The First Decade: An Interdisciplinary Conference

Posted: July 3rd, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on 78-88: Prince, The First Decade: An Interdisciplinary Conference

A two-day international conference hosted by The School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, United Kingdom and  the Department of Recording Industry, Middle Tennessee State University, USA.

June 3 & 4, 2020,  The Robert E. Jones Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center, University of Minnesota, 2001 Plymouth Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Organising Committee:

Dr Mike Alleyne, Dept. of Recording Industry, College of Media & Entertainment, Middle Tennessee State University.

Dr Kirsty Fairclough, School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK.

Kristen Zschomler, Minneapolis-based historian and writer, Sound History, LLC.

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Media Trades and Professions (18th to 21st Century)

Posted: July 2nd, 2019 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Media Trades and Professions (18th to 21st Century)

AAC – SPHM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2020
June 4th to 6th, 2020 University of Lausanne (Switzerland)

This third edition of the SPHM International Conference is organised by the Society for Media History (la Société pour l’histoire des Médias, http://www.histoiredesmedias.com) and by the Centre for the Historical Sciences of Culture of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lausanne (le Centre des Sciences historiques de la culture de la Faculté des Lettres, https://www.unil.ch/shc), with the support of several research laboratories based in Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, and Québec1, including the National Audiovisual Institute (Institut national de l’audiovisuel) and the Historical Committee of the Audiovisual and Digital Observatory (Comité d’histoire de l’Observatoire de l’audiovisuel et du numérique).

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