The Musicology and Ethnomusicology Area at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music welcomes Helen O’Shea for an online talk as part of our 2022 Louise Hanson-Dyer Colloquium Series. Please join us!

Date: June 2, 6pm – online

Registration:  https://bit.ly/OSheaLHD 

Title: Listening to Paddy Canny: Writing a Musical Life

The subject of Helen O’S…[Read more]

REMINDER: 5 June Celebration of Louise Hanson-Dyer and the Lyrebird Music Society
We are pleased to announce a concert and symposium celebrating the centenary of the Lyrebird Music Society (formerly British Music Society Victorian branch) founded by Louise Hanson-Dyer in 1921, and the unveiling of a new portrait of Hanson-Dyer by artist Andre…[Read more]

Dear colleagues

In case you missed it, here is the link to the video of the launch of the Musicology and Ethnomusicology Hub at The University of Adelaide on 5 May:

https://able.adelaide.edu.au/music/about/research/musicology-and-ethnomusicology-hub

In the video, you will see the launch of three exciting new research projects, and what…[Read more]

We are pleased to announce a concert and symposium celebrating the centenary of the Lyrebird Music Society (formerly British Music Society Victorian branch) founded by Louise Hanson-Dyer in 1921, and the unveiling of a new portrait of Hanson-Dyer by artist Andrew Mezei and bronze medallions relating to the history of the Conservatorium by Michael…[Read more]

Everyone is warmly invited to the launch of the Musicology and Ethnomusicology Hub at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, The University of Adelaide, on 5 May at 4.30 pm (Adelaide time).

The Hub was established late last year. It aims to facilitate collaborative research in a collegial and nurturing environment, building on Adelaide’s long and s…[Read more]

Pre-conference seminar of the Asian-German Studies in Music Working Group

In association with the IMS Global Music History Study Group

The Asian-German Studies in Music working group** is holding a pre-conference seminar online on 8–9 August 2022, prior to the IMS2022 Congress in Athens. We invite interested researchers, teachers, and art pr…[Read more]

Musicology Australia is pleased to announce the publication of issue 42/2, a special issue guest edited by Aaron Corn and Clint Bracknell on Indigenous Music and Dance. This issue marks the establishment of the National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia (NRPIPA) as a Study Group of the Musicological Society of…[Read more]

We are excited to announce a new—largely online-based—working group on Asian German Studies in Music within the International Musicological Society (IMS) Global Music History Study Group. Building on the emerging field of Asian German Studies, this working group focuses on the study of musics from a global history perspective. We define ‘As…[Read more]

Dear MSA members,

CONTEXT: Journal of Music Research is pleased to announce the release of Issue 46, available online, along with all previous issues, at https://contextjournal.music.unimelb.edu.au/no-46-2020/

Articles:
John Whiteoak. Investigating ‘Improvisatory Music’ in Australia before Jazz through the Trove Digitised Australian New…[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]