Dear MSA members,

Some of you may have heard me mention at the Adelaide conference in December that Australia was very close to the required number of members of the International Musicological Society (IMS) that would give us a place on the IMS Directorium.

I was informed yesterday that the number of members is now 32 following a few new…[Read more]

Music, Society, Agency Musicologists have increasingly taken a wide-angled lens on the study of music in society, to explore how it can be intertwined with issues of politics, gender, religion, race, psychology, memory, and space. Recent studies of music in connection with society take in a variety of musical phenomena from diverse periods and…[Read more]

REMINDER – CFP

The interwar period in both Europe and Australia was a fascinating and crucial time for the re-building and reconsideration of national identity. Reeling from the trauma of the Great War, negotiating postwar transitions, surviving the Depression of the 1930s, and hurtling towards yet another world war, all had an impact on c…[Read more]

Dear colleagues

Applications are now open for the 2024 Elizabeth Wood Fellowships at The University of Adelaide:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/363068/the-elizabeth-wood-research-fellowship-in-musicology/

Note that this year two fellowships will be awarded.

Kind regards

Paul

Musicology Australia is pleased to announce the publication of issue 45/1, available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmus20/current

Musicology Australia is open to new submissions at any time. Contributors are not required to write on Australian music or be Australian-based musicologists. For further information and instructions for potential…[Read more]

Musical Nationbuilding and Cultural Exchange in Interwar France and Europe
2-3 August 2024, Melbourne
 

The interwar period in both Europe and Australia was a fascinating and crucial time for the re-building and reconsideration of national identity. Reeling from the trauma of the Great War, negotiating postwar transitions, surviving the…[Read more]

For those wanting to diversify their music research, teaching, and recital programmes, do go and check out the MSA’s new Diversity Resource List. It includes sample syllabi, links to databases, co-design protocols, and repertoire lists arranged by instrument, among other useful resources.

Many thanks to all who have contributed so far!

If…[Read more]

We are pleased to announce the program of the 2023 Grainger Symposium ‘New Media and Old Archives – Exploring Twentieth-Century Music, Media and Technology’ at the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne on 8 December 2023.

Details of the program and registration (for both online and in-person participation) are available here: https://grainger.u…[Read more]

Proposals are invited for next year’s symposium Oceanic Networks of Music and Dance: Performing Continuities, Regeneration and Resonances Across Cultures hosted by the Study Group on Music and Dance of Oceania, an association of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance. This 2-day symposium will coincide with the 13th Festival…[Read more]

The distinguished historian Ann Curthoys will present the final Musicology colloquium for 2023.

“Speaking songs”: Paul Robeson on speech, song, music, politics, and universal humanity while touring Australia in 1960.

In the 1930s and 1940s Paul Robeson was probably the most famous African American in the world, known for his singing, his sta…[Read more]

The Victoria Chapter of the MSA will be holding its 2023 Chapter conference and AGM this Friday, 27th October at Trinity College. Please see attached the conference schedule for additional information on the time and location, and for the speakers’ abstracts. The conference is free and open to the public; voting at the AGM is limited to chapter…[Read more]

MSA members are warmly invited to attend a symposium on

Picasso and Musical Modernity (c.1900-1940) / Picasso y el Modernismo Musical (c.1900-1940), hosted by the 15th Symposium FIMTE and the University of Melbourne, and in hybrid format (in person and online)

• 12-14 October 2023
• Download the conference program HERE (please note that sessions…

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Hello,

There were suddenly many non-MSA-related posts in the MSA forum in the last few days. Could admins please consider removing those posts, and potentially blocking the repeat offenders from posting in the forum? I’ve been receiving a lot of email notifications on those non-MSA-related posts, which has been a bit annoying. Thanks for the…[Read more]

Dear all,

Those not attending the MSA National Conference in Adelaide this year may find this Melbourne event to be of interest:

Registration for ‘Inventing the Human’ (29 Nov – 2 Dec) is now open.

This exciting 4-day event will include provocative keynote speeches, an exhibition, roundtable discussions and more than 80 papers contributed by sc…[Read more]

The next speakers in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Musicology Colloquium Series will be Elizabeth Kertesz and Michael Christoferidis of the University of Melbourne.

‘Revolutionary’ Adaptations of Bizet’s Carmen Between the Two World Wars By the early 20th century Georges Bizet’s Carmen had already been part of a long history of adaptation an…[Read more]

Book Talk: Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America 

When: Wednesday 13 September at 6pm

Where: Prudence Myer Studio – Level Five, The Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street Southbank, VIC 3006 and streaming online

Please join us to launch Nick Tochka’s Rocking in the Free World: Popular Mus…[Read more]