The distinguished historian Ann Curthoys will present the final Musicology colloquium for 2023.

“Speaking songs”: Paul Robeson on speech, song, music, politics, and universal humanity while touring Australia in 1960.

In the 1930s and 1940s Paul Robeson was probably the most famous African American in the world, known for his singing, his sta…[Read more]

The Victoria Chapter of the MSA will be holding its 2023 Chapter conference and AGM this Friday, 27th October at Trinity College. Please see attached the conference schedule for additional information on the time and location, and for the speakers’ abstracts. The conference is free and open to the public; voting at the AGM is limited to chapter…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to invite all of you to our upcoming Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group meeting at the SMT Annual Meeting in Denver this November! The meeting is scheduled for 12:30 PM on Friday, November 10. For this year’s meetup, we will be hosting a planned session: Considering Electronic and Synthesized Sound.

We are t…[Read more]

We are excited to have two amazingly wonderful scholars and pedagogues share their insights on popular music pedagogy at our session in Denver. Jennifer Snodgrass and Cora Palfy will offer their perspectives on backwards design in music theory curriculum. A schedule for our session and details on their presentations are below.

SMT PMIG, Friday…[Read more]

MSA members are warmly invited to attend a symposium on

Picasso and Musical Modernity (c.1900-1940) / Picasso y el Modernismo Musical (c.1900-1940), hosted by the 15th Symposium FIMTE and the University of Melbourne, and in hybrid format (in person and online)

• 12-14 October 2023
• Download the conference program HERE (please note that sessions…

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Hello,

There were suddenly many non-MSA-related posts in the MSA forum in the last few days. Could admins please consider removing those posts, and potentially blocking the repeat offenders from posting in the forum? I’ve been receiving a lot of email notifications on those non-MSA-related posts, which has been a bit annoying. Thanks for the…[Read more]

Dear all,

Those not attending the MSA National Conference in Adelaide this year may find this Melbourne event to be of interest:

Registration for ‘Inventing the Human’ (29 Nov – 2 Dec) is now open.

This exciting 4-day event will include provocative keynote speeches, an exhibition, roundtable discussions and more than 80 papers contributed by sc…[Read more]

The Sixth Workshop on Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East (GeMANE 6) will take place as a hybrid event on the 8–11 April, 2024, hosted by University of Malta’s Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures  and the International School for Foundation Studies. Previous GeMANE workshops were held in Helsinki (2014), Barcel…[Read more]

The next speakers in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Musicology Colloquium Series will be Elizabeth Kertesz and Michael Christoferidis of the University of Melbourne.

‘Revolutionary’ Adaptations of Bizet’s Carmen Between the Two World Wars By the early 20th century Georges Bizet’s Carmen had already been part of a long history of adaptation an…[Read more]

Book Talk: Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America 

When: Wednesday 13 September at 6pm

Where: Prudence Myer Studio – Level Five, The Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street Southbank, VIC 3006 and streaming online

Please join us to launch Nick Tochka’s Rocking in the Free World: Popular Mus…[Read more]