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Call for Papers IASPM 2011 17th Biennial International Conference Grahamstown South Africa 27 June/1 July 2011 Extended Deadline: 1st September 2010 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 [...]

British Academy, London, 13-15 January 2011 Keynote speakers: Prof Gianmario Borio (Pavia); Prof Georgina Born (Cambridge); Prof Anne Shreffler (Harvard) Panel session: Konrad Boehmer; Henry Flynt; Giacomo Manzoni Themed paper sessions include: Communist Parties Popular music Folk song The Black Panther Party US-Soviet friendship Soviet realism overseas Communist nationalisms Communism’s cultural legacy Full programme: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/music/documents/communism-programme.pdf Conference information and online registration: http://redstrains.blogspot.com/

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Chapter (IASPM-US) will hold its annual conference Mar. 9-13, 2011 in Cincinnati, OH, in a joint meeting with the Society for American Music. We invite proposals for individual papers or panels of three or four presenters. Alternate presentation formats, such as lecture/performances and roundtable panels, [...]

Faculty of Humanities Department of Musicology Oslo’s multi-purpose new Opera house Scandinavia’s leading music department at the University of Oslo is announcing a number of research posts in popular music linked to the project ‘Popular Music & Gender in a Transcultural Context’, led by professor Stan Hawkins. The first two appointments are a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship and a PhD [...]

Faculty of Humanities Wits School of Arts Music Wits Music is distinctive in being the only university music department in Africa to be part of a School of Arts that includes television and film, drama, digital arts, fine arts, and arts, culture and heritage studies divisions: www.wits.ac.za/wsoa. The School is seeking to make two appointments from 1 January [...]

The Society for Ethnomusicology will hold its 55th Annual Meeting on November 11-14, 2010, at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Titled ‘Sound Ecologies’, this year’s meeting features more than 400 presentations, as well as a variety of concerts and other special events. The meeting is hosted by UCLA, which is celebrating the [...]

The British Academy, London Thursday 13 January – Saturday 15 January 2011 Proposals are invited for this conference, to be held at the British Academy in London, in conjunction with the University of Nottingham. The relationship between state communism and music behind the Iron Curtain has been the subject of much scholarly interest. The importance of communism for [...]

ARP 2010 Call For Papers Extended deadline: Tuesday 1st June 2010 The Sixth Annual Art of Record Production Conference will be hosted by Bob Davis and Justin Morey at Leeds Metropolitan University on December 3rd – 5th 2010 The theme of the conference is centred around the idea of change and continuity – the idea that music and [...]