IASPM - ANZ

Creative Communities 2
Culture Identity Inclusion

21 – 23 September 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Mary Fogarty (University of East London)

Conference convenors: Professor Andy Bennett, Dr Ian Woodward & Dr Jodie Taylor
Conference organisers: Ms Jill Jones & Ms Sarah Gornall
Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University

A three-day international conference hosted by the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at Griffith University

Call for Papers

IASPM 2011 17th Biennial International Conference ‘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.

The week of the conference leads up to the Grahamstown National Arts

Call for Papers

The First Annual Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) will be held June 30, July 1, 2 at the VIBE Hotel in Sydney.

This interdisciplinary and transnational conference is accepting proposals on ALL aspects of popular culture including but not limited to:

•Graphic Novels, Comics and Visual Cultures (Dr Paul Mountfort, AUT)
•Popular Design (Dr Derham Groves, University of Melbourne)
•Popular Romance Studies (Dr Glen Thomas, QUT)
•Popular Fiction (Dr Toni Johnson-Woods, UQ)

After the initial call for contributions some ten months ago, I am now delighted to announce the launch of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture. The first edition of Dancecult, a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC), is now live, with downloadable PDFs accessible at http://dj.dancecult.net. Alongside Managing Editor Eliot Bates and Reviews Editor Karenza Moore - who have thrown themselves headlong into the journal - I am happy to see the EDMC research mothership slide down the sluiceway to begin her maiden voyage.

The Transforming Cultures Research Centre is proud to announce the publication of the newest Transforming Cultures eJournal:

Music and the Production of Place, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2009), edited by Tony Mitchell.

Get the latest edition here