Background:
Bloomsbury is thrilled to announce a call for new proposals for the acclaimed 33 1/3 book series, previously published by Continuum. (Bloomsbury acquired Continuum in July 2011).
The series – each volume of which focuses on one popular music album of the last several decades – started in September 2003 and has so far published 85 titles. Books in the series so far have taken a wide range of approaches, on subjects ranging from albums by the Kinks to James Brown, from Bob Dylan to Prince, from the Pixies to Public Enemy, and from the Beastie Boys to Celine Dion.
In these new proposals, we’ll be looking for original research, for stories in the history of popular music (recent or otherwise) that haven’t been told too often (if at all), and for perspectives that will broaden and develop the discipline of writing about music, as read by a global readership of music scholars and fans. [Read the full post…]
The IMS study group “Music and Media” (MaM) will hold its fourth international meeting in Turin at the Università di Torino, as pre-conference to the IMS Rome 2012 conference. One of the themes will be OUnheard Melodies: 25 years. This session will thematize a retrospective on Claudia Gorbman’s groundbreaking book on the role of narrative film music.
Other areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
- (New) methodologies for the study of film soundtracks;
- Unheard melodies and New Media;
- Synchronisation;
- Non-canonical music and New Media.
North American British Music Studies Association (NABMSA) Fifth Biennial Conference University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
July 25-28, 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
NABMSA’s fifth conference will once again bring together scholars and lovers of British music from various academic fields and locales for three days of papers, discussions, and musical performances. The 2012 conference will take place from July 25-28 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The theme of the conference is Anglo-American music and musical relationships, and we are especially interested in papers that explore these connections, such as those on British brass bands in America, British-American folk traditions, and other transatlantic collaborations and influences. [Read the full post…]
Scarecrow Press is accepting proposals for book-length studies on rock, popular music, and culture for a new book series called TEMPO.
“Drawing from the fields of cultural studies, sociology, media studies, music history and literary studies, Tempo books will study an artist, genre or subgenre of rock or popular music as emerging in a cultural context and as developing in response to the surrounding forces of the times. [Read the full post…]
This comes from Lindsay Bernhagen, one of the student representatives for IASPM:
You are invited to participate in a new initiative supporting graduate student popular music scholars. This year, we are establishing the IASPM-US Mentorship Program. The IASPM-US Mentorship Program, which is loosely based on the Preparing Future Faculty model, is designed to facilitate mentorship relationships that provide support for advanced graduate students preparing to enter academia. The program also offers current faculty a chance to directly invest in the future of popular music studies.
In particular, this new program is designed to assist graduate students in strategizing their professional development as popular music scholars in terms of:
finding and applying for jobs, fellowships, postdocs, etc.
compiling C.V.s and composing job letters
identifying appropriate venues for presenting and publishing research
establishing legibility (and legitimacy) to a variety of audiences/colleagues
The specific responsibilities of each member of the mentor/mentee pair are at the discretion of those involved, but please note that this program is not intended to add dissertation or thesis advising responsibilities for the mentor.
If you are interested in participating as either a mentor or a mentee, email your name, affiliation, whether you are a graduate student or a faculty member, your preferred email address, and a brief description of research interests and/or the disciplines with which your work overlaps to lindsay.bernhagen@gmail.com. If you are a faculty member, please indicate whether you would be willing to provide mentorship to more than one graduate student.
Please submit your information by February 24th, 2012. We will do our best to pair each applicant well in advance of our upcoming conference, so that participants who are attending will be able to arrange a time to meet in person.
The 2011-2012 IASPM-US Nomination Committee seeks calls for nominations from IASPM-US’s membership to fill the positions of secretary, treasurer, two Open Seats and one Student Seat (each of which is a two-year term) on the Executive Committee. Descriptions of each position are located below.
All active members of IASPM-US are eligible to run for elected office. Any member may make a nomination by sending an email to Theo Cateforis (tpcatefo@syr.edu) before 3 February 2012. Self-nominations are strongly encouraged.
We look forward to your nominations!
IASPM-US Nomination Committee
Lindsay Bernhagen
Theo Cateforis
Zack Stiegler
DUTIES OF SECRETARY
The secretary shall:
Certify and keep at the principal office of the corporation the original, or a copy, of these Bylaws as amended or otherwise altered to date.
The schedule is set and available for viewing for the 2012 IASPM-US/EMP joint conference. Over at the EMP website, you can see the panel schedule, and you can also look through each presenter’s bio and abstract. You’ll also find permanent links to this information on the 2012 conference page here at the IASPM-US site.
Don’t forget that we’ll be featuring previews of conference papers here on the front page of the IASPM-US site in the coming weeks. If you’re interested in showing us some of what you have, be sure to send a sneak peek to iaspmus@gmail.com.
This year’s IASPM-US/EMP joint conference is just a couple of months away, and we’d like to whet your appetites for all of the pop music goodness you’ll be enjoying that weekend. To that end, we’ll be previewing conference papers on this site between now and March 22.
If you’ve had a paper accepted and would like to give us a small taste of what you’ll be discussing at the conference, submit a short “sneak peek” of your material to Justin Burton at iaspmus@gmail.com. Your preview needs only to be about 1000 words but should be more substantive than a simple abstract. You don’t have to summarize all of your primary points; rather, let us know what you’re writing about and include an example or two (we can include video clips quite easily) connected to the larger project.
We’ll start posting these as soon as we get them, so send them along!
Many of you are beginning to make plans to attend the 2012 joint conference with EMP, and we’re here to help. Hotel information can be found at the EMP site, and we’ve also provided a link from the IASPM-US Conference page. In the coming days, the EMP site will also include abstracts and presenter bios as well as the weekend’s schedule; when those post, we’ll let you know.
Kim Novak, lead actress in Vertigo and current Oscar voter, made headlines yesterday with her reaction to the use of Bernard Hermann’s music in Oscar hopeful The Artist. Her statement:
Los Angeles: “I want to report a rape,” said Kim Novak, the legendary star of “Vertigo,” “Picnic,” and many other revered classics. “My body of work has been violated by ‘The Artist.’ This film took the Love Theme music from “Vertigo” and used the emotions it engenders as its own. Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart can’t speak for themselves, but I can. It was our work that unconsciously or consciously evoked the memories and feelings to the audience that were used for the climax of ‘The Artist.’”
The committee for the David Sanjek Graduate Student Paper Prize of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music – US Branch (IASPM-US) invites graduate students who will be presenting at the 2012 IASPM-US annual conference to submit their papers for consideration. Eligibility: Any student who presents, in person, a formal paper at the IASPM-US [...]
David Rovics is a musician and activist who routinely posts essays on music and culture at his blog. The following essay, “The Cultural 1%,” was recently published at his blog and circulated to readers via his email with the invitation to repost it. So we’re taking Rovics up on that invitation and posting his essay [...]
Sonic Work: Music, Labor, Value A Special Issue of the Journal for Popular Music Studies Call For Papers Marina Peterson, Jesse Shipley, Guest Editors We are interested in papers from a variety of academic fields and sonic contexts that address issues of music, labor, and value broadly conceived. Making music involves labor of various sorts, whether [...]
Mike Jones (Who?) and Technological Angst I’m Mike Jones/(Who?)/Mike Jones/The one and only/You can’t clone me A rapper obsessed with his name is nothing new. “Still D.R.E.” “Forgot about Dre,” “Izzo (H.O.V.A.),” “Big Pimpin,” and “My Name Is” all feature hooks built around musicians’ names—names uttered not by the rappers themselves but by colleagues, protégés, [...]
I can’t resist year-end lists. They’re hokey and arbitrary; they often include songs that weren’t even released in the designated year and are so self-conscious that they say much more about the lister than the listed. But anytime I come across a year-end list, I can’t help myself. At Time, Claire Suddath has released her [...]
This comes from Lindsay Bernhagen, one of the student representatives for IASPM: You are invited to participate in a new initiative supporting graduate student popular [...]
The 2011-2012 IASPM-US Nomination Committee seeks calls for nominations from IASPM-US’s membership to fill the positions of secretary, treasurer, two Open Seats and one Student Seat [...]
Kim Novak, lead actress in Vertigo and current Oscar voter, made headlines yesterday with her reaction to the use of Bernard Hermann’s music in Oscar [...]
The committee for the David Sanjek Graduate Student Paper Prize of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music – US Branch (IASPM-US) invites [...]
Mike Jones (Who?) and Technological Angst I’m Mike Jones/(Who?)/Mike Jones/The one and only/You can’t clone me A rapper obsessed with his name is nothing new. [...]
The IASPM-US Commercial Music Graphic series is offered in tribute to the late Archie Green. Folklorist, labor historian, activist, and pioneering popular music scholar, Green [...]
We’ve recently updated our Resources page to include a set of sample syllabi collected by the Pedagogy Committee. In conjunction with the new page, we’ll [...]
