This is a call for proposals for essays on jazz under totalitarian regimes, to be proposed for publication in the new Routledge ‘Transnational Studies in Jazz’ series. The chief editor will be Bruce Johnson. Broadly speaking, totalitarianism is here understood to be a regime in which the state ...

Project 4 organizes the conference Over and Over: Exploring Repetition in Popular Music  at the University of Liège, June 4 th -6 th 2015. This conference aims at identifying and studying the recent aesthetic and analytical developments of musical repetition. From the 32-bar forms of...

Call for papers Popular Music Studies Today 19th Biennial IASPM Conference 26 June – 30 June 2017 University of Kassel Germany Popular Music Studies are today a key field of enquiry. Exploring the parameters of research on popular music in contemporary times lies at the centre of the 19th Biennial...

The 11th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology - CIM17 under the theme “Popular Music” will be held at the Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM), Istanbul Technical University in  Istanbul, Turkey, on 30 November - 3 December...

Registration for the BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference, taking place at Canterbury Christ Church University in January, is now open. The provisional programme is also available . The school of Music and Performing Arts at Canterbury Christ Church University is honoured to host the second...

Music Production Education Conference 2017 York St John University, York, UK, Thursday June 29 th 2017 www.musicproductioneducation.co.uk MPEC is a new addition to the conference calendar for the study of Music Production pedagogy. MPEC seeks to provide a forum for the discussion and analysis...

Politics and Ethnography in an Age of Uncertainty The University of Manchester 29th August - 1st September 2017 The Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester hosts this year Annual Ethnography Symposium, August 29th – September 1st 2017. The Annual Ethnography Symposium ...

Interacting in and with music Sound, gesture, devices in contemporary electronic and electroacoustic music 11-12 October 2017 – Université Rennes 2, France   Keynote Speakers Mark J. Butler, Professor of Music theory and Cognition at Bienen School of Music, Northwestern, ...

In 2018 The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation celebrates the centennial of its founder, Barry S. Brook (1918–1997). A musicologist with a global vision who lived and worked both in  New York and in Paris, his scholarly interests were broad: His research covered ...

What Difference Does It Make? Music and Gender 2018 MoPOP Pop Conference April 26-29, 2018, Seattle WA   Popular media in the 21st century is rife with radical differences around gender. Even as audiences cheer on shows like  RuPaul’s Drag Race, viewers and voters reward toxic...