Posted: January 14th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me: Tommy, Rock Opera and Twentieth Century Britain
Special Issue, IASPM journal
Edited by Keith Gildart and Benjamin Halligan
With Tommy, British rock group The Who audaciously scoped British social history across the middle decades of the twentieth century in order to engage with themes of youth culture, hedonism and alienation, family dysfunctionality, the horrors of war and its aftermath, stardom and psychic damage, sexual abuse and exclusion, and the permissive society. The rock opera concept of Tommy was one that resulted in multiple iterations: the original album (1969), the London symphony production (1972), Ken Russell’s glam-era film (1975), stage productions at the moment of the “Britpop” renaissance in British culture (in the 1990s, and a 2015 revival), and the music continuing to feature in the live sets of The Who.
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Posted: January 14th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Pedagogy and Practice in Popular Music Education
Association for Popular Music Education European Conference 2025
July 22-24, 2025, Liverpool, UK
The Association of Popular Music Education (APME) European Conference 2025, hosted at Liverpool Institute for Performance Arts in Liverpool, invites scholars, educators, musicians, practitioners, and industry professionals to submit proposals for papers, presentations, and workshops that explore innovative practices, foster critical discussions, and share emerging trends in popular music education. This year’s conference focuses on the intersection of pedagogy and practice in popular music education, highlighting key issues in diversity, social justice, and the evolving role of music education in our communities.
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Posted: January 6th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Changing Mediations of Music, Audio and Sound: New Systems Across the World
Audio streaming, social media and short video platforms are transforming the systems by which sound media are configured internationally. Platformisation, datafication and automated recommendation have been central to such transformations, and now generative AI is bringing about further changes. These developments have generated great controversy, for example concerning effects on musicians, on local music production, and on the way that music is experienced in everyday life. These changes also have significant implications, via the rise of podcasting and other related developments, for the fate of radio, even if radio remains resilient in many territories. Arguably such transformations require a major rethinking of the politics of sound in everyday life.
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Posted: January 6th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Artificial intelligence in the creator economy
Special edition of Global Media and China
Issue Editors
Keith Negus (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, and University of Agder, Norway)
Qian Zhang (Communication University of China, Beijing)
Artificial intelligence in the creator economy
Artificial Intelligence (AI), powered by large data sets and advanced algorithms, is having a profound impact upon the global media. It is disrupting approaches to knowledge and information, models of communication and representation, along with creative practices and cultural production. This special edition addresses the impacts and consequences of AI for the study of global media, by focusing specifically on how AI is driving a growing creator economy. The creator economy refers to the way ever more content is made, modified, and monetized, using accessible AI apps, across audio-visual platforms like Douyin/ TikTok, YouTube, Sina Weibo, WeChat, Twitch, Bigo Live, and Boomplay.
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Posted: January 6th, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Depression in Popular Music
International Conference, June 26-27, 2025
Sorbonne University, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health (iPLesp), Paris
Conference organizers:
Jessica A. Holmes
Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Copenhagen
4EU+ Visiting Professor, Sorbonne University iPLesp (Spring 2025)
iPLesp Social Epidemiology, Mental Health and Addictions Research Team led by Judith van der Waerden, Senior Research Associate, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)
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