Please have a look at the current issue (14/2) of the journal Music and Politics. This is a special issue: The Politics of Musical Knowledge in the Soviet Union and Beyond (1930s to 1980s). This includes articles by Olga Panteleeva, Daniil Zavlunov, Inessa Bazayev, Chris Segall, Matthew Honegger, and Anicia Timberlake. Congratulations to all the…[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]

Dear MSA Forum members,

The International Musicological Society is pleased to announce the inauguration of the IMS Study Group “Musical Diagrams”, chaired by Daniel Muzzulini (CH) and Susan F. Weiss (US). The study group has the following mission statement: “The aims of the study group are: to foster the exchange of music theoretical diagr…[Read more]

Hi all, the following may be of interest to members:

• The Royal Musical Association (RMA) annual conference is running online this week Sept. 8-10, and registration is free. There are some excellent presentations on the programme, including the Le Huray Lecture presented by Marie Thompson, and the Dent Medal Lecture presented by Gundula Kreuzer.…

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UPDATE: The SMT-Rus 2020 meeting is scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 7, at 1 pm, Orange room. Please join us for this virtual meeting, if time permits!

Hi all, here’s the latest newsletter from the WA Chapter. Feel free to have a look at what we’re up to!

Nominations DUE TOMORROW for the Pop Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award—click on these links to nominate. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively impacted you. Self-nominations are especially encouraged! Note that to be eligible for an award, the publica…[Read more]

Dear SMT-Rus members,

I hope you all had a good summer and will have a good semester, these unusual times notwithstanding!  I’m very excited to announce the upcoming meeting of our interest group, to take place in November. The meeting will consist of four lightning talks:

“Ivan Wyschnegradsky and the Enigma of Modern Music,” Lee Cannon-…[Read more]

Dear all,

on behalf of Antonio Baldassarre, IMS Directorium Member and RIdIM President, the IMS would like to bring to your kind attention the following message:

The 20th International Conference of Association RIdIM, “Visualising the Unseen: Music in Visual Culture,” was moved to July 22 to 24, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We invite pro…[Read more]