CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Music and Film in Oceania [working title]

edited by Gregory Camp, University of Auckland

Over the past few decades film production in Oceania (broadly defined as New Zealand, Australia, and the islands that comprise Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia) has grown exponentially, making Australia and New Zealand in particular…[Read more]

Hi all, I hope everyone is keeping safe during these trying times. The WA Chapter of the MSA has released its biannual newsletter, and has updated its research events with Zoom links and online access.  Feel free to log in and see what’s happening in Perth!

Kia ora all, I hope you are all well and safe in your bubbles. Please find below an invitation to all jazz people from the administrators of Jazz Studies Collaborative:

We are delighted to invite you to join the email and Facebook discussion groups, Jazz Studies Collaborative. Founded in October 2018 by Lewis Porter, Mark Lomanno, and Alex…[Read more]

Call For Papers for volume on Music, Dance and the Archive Submissions are invited for a proposed volume exploring music, dance and the archive, focusing in particular on Indigenous performance practices around the world. The volume will be edited by Amanda Harris, Jakelin Troy and Linda Barwick, investigators on the ARC funded project…[Read more]

Kerry Murphy, Frederic Kiernan and Andrew Frampton are proud to announce the publication of a special issue of Musicology Australia 41.2 (2019):

‘Zelenka, Bach and the Eighteenth-Century German Baroque: Essays in Honour of Janice B. Stockigt.’

Subscribers to the journal can access the volume here. We present this volume to Jan in humble tha…[Read more]

Dear MSA members,

Last Friday Aboriginal teacher and music & language researcher Alison Nangala Ross B.Ed passed away tragically in her classroom at Neutral Junction School, NT. Alison was one of the first solo Indigenous people to present at an MSA conference back in 2001, in Melbourne, on Kaytetye songs. Together with Myfany Turpin, she…

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Dear MSA Forum members,

Please see below a message from the organisers of this year’s MSA conference, in light of the evolving situation surrounding COVID-19:

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The Musicological Society of Australia’s 43rd Annual Conference, to be held at the  Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne, has been put on hold unti…[Read more]

CONTEXT: Journal of Music Research is published by the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne, and is edited by a committee of staff and postgraduate research students.

Now in its thirtieth year, CONTEXT publishes research articles, book reviews, edited interviews with composers and research project reports. CONTEXT is a…[Read more]

CFP: Analog Afterlives: Obsolescence / Mediation / Re-Collection

Analog Afterlives

Symposium Supported by the Macgeorge Fellowship at the University of Melbourne

Convened by Dr Nicholas Tochka (U Melbourne) and A/Prof Kyle Devine (U Oslo)

Abstract Deadline: 31 March 2020

Notifications: 30 April 2020

21-22 August 2020

Melbourne…[Read more]

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We are currently looking for two PhD or MRes Year 2 + PhD candidates to investigate any topic related to the environmental humanities that explores cultural, social, or ecological contexts of multi-species sonic environments. This could include field recordings, music composition, sound art, radio broadcast/podcast, soundscape ecology,…[Read more]

I am very pleased to announce the publication of an unofficial special issue of MUSICultures (46: 2) on music and the environment. This issue complements our recent issue on ecologies (45: 1-2), and I’m delighted that Aaron Allen and Jeff Todd Titon were willing to preface the current issue with a special introduction.

This issue is available to…[Read more]

Hi all,

I’ve posted the CFP on SMT Announce a couple of times, but I wanted to give JIG folks specifically a reminder that the submission deadline for the Issues in Contemporary Jazz Conference is this Friday. I hope y’all submit any papers and/or scores you’ve been working on! Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Adam

Dear SMT JIG,

I wonder if any of you would give me your opinion on a question that’s been bugging me for ages. Let’s say we agree that you can reduce rhythm changes to |I|V|I|V| in the first four measures. Do you hear those Vs as back-related? Front-related? Depends on comping vs. soloing? Depends on the line being played? Depends on something…[Read more]

Hi all! I hope all has been well since our meeting in Columbus last month, and you all are surviving the end of the school year grading piles. I have been spending this year (taking a break from academia) in the Kansas City area, which is such a rich geographic location in relation to jazz history’s roots in blues and proto-bebop. Something my…[Read more]