There are 22 new post-doctoral fellowships of 18 months duration at WA universities now open for applications, funded by the Forrest Research Foundation. Applications for this round close Aug. 26th.

One of the areas of priority is Arts and Culture:

Governors have determined that 20% of fellowships will be allocated to the Arts and Culture area,…[Read more]

Apparently IRCAM has put my Grisey Vortex Temporum 20-minute multimedia lecture on YouTube ( https://youtu.be/qLICBP9FczQ ) along with a whole bunch of others, such as Julian Anderson’s, from the same Spectralism conference, and longer lectures by composers such as James Dillon, Kaija Saariaho, Beat Furrer, George Lewis, Rebecca Saunders, Chaya C…[Read more]

Call for Contributors: We are excited to announce a call for additional contributors for a new text, Handbook of Jazz and Gender through Routledge. This is open to scholars and musicians at all levels of their careers. The editors are especially interested in contributions examining the intersections of race and gender, non-binary, LGBTQIA, and…[Read more]

Nominations are officially open 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 publi…[Read more]

Call for Presentations: 19th Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance

The 19th Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance will be held on 3–5 December 2020 in association with the 43rd MSA National Conference, and the 4th annual Symposium on Indigenous Arts in the Academy at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Victorian College of the Arts on…[Read more]

Call for Presentations: Musicological Society of Australia’s 43rd Annual National Conference  

Location: Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, Australia

Date: 3-5 Dec. 2020 

CFP Deadline: 15 Aug. 2020

Proposal Outcome: 15 Sept. 2020 

Convenors: John Gabriel, Fred Kiernan, Linda Kouvaras, Kerry Murphy, Sally Trelo…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Please don’t forget to nominate outstanding article and book chapters for our new publication award. The deadline has been extended to July 7. Self nominations are welcome!

Full announcement and details below:

It is our pleasure to announce the call for submissions for the new publication award for the SMT Post-1945 Music…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce the call for submissions for the new publication award for the SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group.

The Post-1945 Music Analysis IG is a discursive space for scholars of 20th- and 21st-century art music, broadly construed. Through its annual meetings and online communications, the group…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

COVID-19 has impacted planning of the MSA National Conference 2020. If you are thinking about presenting at the conference this year, the MSA would be grateful if you would complete a short survey (approx. 3 minutes) about possibly participating remotely.

You can access the survey here: https://melbourneuni.au1.qualtrics.c…[Read more]

AMS/SMT Minneapolis 2020:

Call for Participants in a Panel Discussion hosted by the Society for Music Theory’s Popular Music Interest Group

Panel Discussion: The Music of “Monstrous Men”: Negotiating Popular Music and the Musicians Who Make It. 

While the “monstrous men” of the 2017 Paris Review article include artists of many ilks, the…[Read more]

Dear MSA members,

Please find attached a call for papers for an online music research journal.

The Journal of Music Research Online (JMRO) is a freely accessible, peer-reviewed journal for the publication of scholarly research in music. It has a distinguished international editorial board, broad scope and only publishes research which is of the…[Read more]

The IMS would like to bring to your kind attention a new public humanities streaming lecture series launched by the University of Chicago Music Department entitled “Music Revealed.” One of the lectures features Philip V. Bohlman, the co-editor of the IMS’s journal, Acta Musicologica. Please see the link for further detai…[Read more]