Dear scholars of post-1945 music,

Please consider submitting your published articles or book chapters for consideration for the SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award.

Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published between January 2020 and December 2022 on analysis of post-1945 music within modernist, experimental,…[Read more]

Five new positions (3 PhD, 2 Postdoc) announced at RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo:

https://www.uio.no/ritmo/english/about/working-at-ritmo/vacancies/index.html

The PhD position in Musical Rhythm and Groove is particularly relevant for Rap/Hip-hop analysts – and I would love it if…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media”

Harvard University Department of Music, May 11-13, 2023

Deadline for submissions: Friday, January 13, 2023

We are pleased to announce a three-day conference bringing together researchers and artists from a variety of music-related disci…[Read more]

Dear SMT-Rus members, I am happpy to report that Sasha Drozzina has won the chair election! She got 14 votes out of 20. Thanks very much to all who voted and made sure that our group is healthily moving forward! Today, I will report to Aine Heneghan about the change of leadership in our IG.

All best,

-Ellen

Dear SMT-Rus members,

I am inviting you to participate in the election of a new chair, who will lead the group in 2023-25. Please click the link below and respond ONCE by Monday, December 5, 2022. The quorum for this will be 10 voters, and this is half of the last two years’ attendance average.

[LINK REMOVED AS ELECTION PERIOD HAS…[Read more]

Hi all,

Jordan Lenchitz and I are thinking of organizing a special session on “Listening to Microtonality” for the 2023 AMS/SMT in Denver. If you’d like to be involved, send me an email (nkahrs@u.rochester.edu) and we’ll go from there.

Best,

Noah

Dear members of the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group,

For those of you that missed the announcement at our recent business meeting during the conference, please join me in congratulating the winner of the 2022 Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award, Jocelyn Ho!

Please see below for the full announcement from the award…[Read more]

Hello, all!

I hope this announcement will be of particular interest to the post-1945 interest group.

The Eastman School of Music invites applications for the tenth edition of its summer study-abroad program in Paris (https://summer.esm.rochester.edu/course/paris/), offered in conjunction with IRCAM’s ManiFeste-2023 festival of contemporary music…[Read more]

Hello! I hope everyone had a great conference this weekend. I’ll be honest: my aural skills are terrible and very rusty. Furthermore, my guitar knowledge is practically nonexistent. Still, I love rock music.

I am looking for someone who can transcribe “Beautiful Blue” by Mudcrutch. I plan to use the transcription for personal analytical use.…[Read more]

Hello group!

I figured this would be the place to let you all know that Dr. Jaspal Singh of The Open University in the United Kingdom and myself have created a monthly reading group that discusses various texts regarding hip-hop culture, including but not limited to: theory, sociocultural discourse, race and gender, identity, etc. I have linked…[Read more]

IASPM-US is hosting the international IASPM conference next year at the University of Minneapolis — Twin Cities, June 26–30, 2023.  The CFP is due by November 18.

https://iaspm-us.wildapricot.<wbr />org/IASPM-International-2023