Dear colleagues,

Many countries celebrate the Music Festival this June 21. On this occasion, the European Institute of Jewish Music (Paris) is pleased to present to you 4 playlists of Jewish music on its website.

Also have a look at our English newsletter to enjoy all other online content.

Good listening, Shabbat shalom and kol tov.

Hervé…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues.

Welcome to the new International Forum for Jewish Music Studies. As you know the Forum launches Tuesday, 23 June 2020, with ‘Conversations on Zoom’ (COZ) where scholars, practitioners and archivists engage in dialogue on their work, interests and approaches.

To join the conversation with the log-in details go to [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]

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]

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]