Dear MSA Members,

A reminder that the conference Music in the Pacific World: Change and Exchange Through Sound and Memory is coming up in October 2021 and abstracts are due by 15 February… http://www.gim.ntu.edu.tw/ims-study-group-ghm2021/

Dear MSA Forum members,

On behalf of Milijana Pavlovic, I would like to bring to your attention the call for papers for the conference, “Music and Medicine: Musicological and Medical-Historical Approaches,” which is taking place in Innsbruck, Austria, from November 4 to 6, 2021. Please see the attached PDF for further details.

Cheers

Fred.

Dear MSA Form members,

From the IMS team:

From January 29 to 31, 2021, the School of Music at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts will host a free online music festival entitled “Szenenwechsel ‘Re-Mix’.” We cordially invite you to take part online via the following link: hslu.ch/szenenwechsel

As part of the festival, the researc…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

I draw your attention to a new study group established by the IMS, “Temporalities in Music Theater”.

The mission statement for the group is as follows:

Temporal structures and forces have yet to be meaningfully addressed by scholars of music theatrical genres. However, given music’s and drama’s fundamental and com…[Read more]

Dear MSA forum members,

Below, from the IMS team:

The Local Organizing Committee and Program Committee of the 21st Quinquennial IMS Congress (IMS2022) are delighted to announce that the official congress website, including the abstract submission portal, is now online:

https://pcoconvin.eventsair.com/ims22/

The IMS2022 Congress will be held in…[Read more]

An opportunity exists for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Music to teach into
the curriculum for the Western Civilisation Major. A significant part of
this teaching will include the development and delivery of a course on the
integral role of music in the development of Western cultures from
antiquity to the present time, not only in relation to how…[Read more]

Australasian Jazz and Improvisation Research Network 2021

Conference Conference Theme: Accessing Jazz and Improvised Music 

Conference Date: June 5–6, 2021 

The 2021 AJIRN conference theme “Accessing Jazz and Improvised Music” invites participants to consider the networks, infrastructure, physical and ideological barriers, creative problems…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS: Perfect Beat Special ‘Riffs’ Issue: COVID-19, Music and the Asia-Pacific

Perfect Beat journal invites contributions to a special edition of short-form ‘Riff’ articles, typically 2000 words, to document the state of music research in the Asia-Pacific region during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Riff is a blind peer-reviewed article…[Read more]

Registration is now open for the Musicological Society of Australia, Western Australia Chapter Conference that will be held on Saturday Nov. 21st at UWA. The draft programme for the day—including a highly diverse range of papers, a roundtable discussion and a keynote presentation—is attached below!  Registration is essential. Please regist…[Read more]

Call for Papers

2021 McGill Music Graduate Virtual Symposium

Schulich School of Music, McGill University

Montréal, Canada, March 12-14, 2021

Submission Deadline: January 1, 2021

The McGill Music Graduate Students’ Society (MGSS) at the Schulich School of Music in Montréal, Canada is pleased to announce its 34rd annual Symposium, which will b…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

On behalf of International Musicological Society Immediate Past President, Dinko Fabris, the IMS would like to bring the following information to your kind attention:

The IMS Study Group “Mediterranean Music Studies” will hold its fourth meeting in Beirut (Lebanon) on November 3, 2020, at 4:00 pm CET, during the int…[Read more]

Dear Forum members:

A call for papers: “Music in the Pacific World: Change and Exchange Through Sound and Memory”: First Conference of the IMS Study Group, “Global History of Music”

Organisers: Jen-yen Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) and David R. M. Irving (ICREA & Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats–CSIC, Spain)…[Read more]

Don & Joan Squire Award for Voluntary Services to Musicology in Australia, 2020

Dear MSA Forum members

All members of MSA are warmly invited to consider the eligibility of friends or colleagues for this award, however, formal nominations should be made by appropriate Chapters. Please see below.

The Award

Established in 2008, the Don & Joan…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

As you will know, Monash University plans to disestablish its ethnomusicology and musicology course specialisms in the faculty of arts. In case you haven’t seen this petition already, please consider signing it to help save the department from…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members, a conference announcement:

ZELENKA CONFERENCE PRAGUE 2020: ZELENKA AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

Place: Library of the Department of Musicology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Puškinovo náměstí 447/9, Praha 6.

Date: FRIDAY 16.10.2020

Time: 09.00–17.00 Central European Time

We cordially invite you to the Seventh Zelenka Confe…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members

The IMS Regional Association for the Study of the Music of the Balkans, has announced the release of the first issue of Series Musicologica Balcanica (SMB).

The journal is an open access publication and can be found at ejournals.lib.auth.gr/smb.

All best,

Fred Kiernan.

Dear MSA Forum members,

The MSA was deeply saddened to learn of the decision to disestablish musicology and ethnomusicology at Monash University. For the MSA’s letter of response to the university, sent to Professor Margaret Gardner today (21 Sept.), please see the attached PDF.

All best,

Fred Kiernan, MSA Secretary.

Dear MSA Forum members,

A message from the International Musicological Society:

In August 2022 Philip V. Bohlman and Federico Celestini will complete their terms as editors of our peer-reviewed journal, Acta Musicologica. The IMS therefore seeks applications for a new editorial team for a five-year term, with a possible extension of a further…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

I’m pleased to announce that a new book based on the theme of the 2017 MSA/NZMS conference “Performing History” has just been published:

Nancy November, ed., Performing History: Approaches to History Across Musicology (Boston, U.S.A.: Academic Studies Press, 2020), https://www.academicstudiespress.com/out-of-series/perform…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

In December 2020, James Wierzbicki will complete his term as Editor of the biannually published, peer-review journal of the Musicological Society of Australia (MSA), Musicology Australia. The MSA is seeking applications for a new Editor to be appointed for a three-year term with a possible extension of a further three…[Read more]