Dear colleagues and members of the AADIG,

Below is a message from Richard Beaudoin which is likely to be of great concern to our Interest Group. Please note the invitation to contribute to the Google Document and to circulate it as appropriate.

The Paddock Music Library at Dartmouth College has just been closed — permanently — without con…[Read more]

Dear all

News from the International Centre for Community Music (http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/iccm):

The recording of the recent ICCM Conversations: Group Singing as Healthy Public with Dave Camlin, Helena Daffern and Katherine Zeserson is now available via the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNadYhQOTi0

The next ICCM Conversations…[Read more]

Dear MSA members,

CONTEXT: Journal of Music Research is pleased to announce the release of Issue 46, available online, along with all previous issues, at https://contextjournal.music.unimelb.edu.au/no-46-2020/

Articles:
John Whiteoak. Investigating ‘Improvisatory Music’ in Australia before Jazz through the Trove Digitised Australian New…[Read more]

A gentle reminder that the deadline for proposals for the AJIRN 2021 conference “Accessing Jazz and Improvised Music” is 7 February. You can find out more information about the conference and how to submit a proposal here: https://www.sydney.edu.au/music/our-research/research-events/accessing-jazz-and-improvised-music.html

Dear MSA Members,

A reminder that the conference Music in the Pacific World: Change and Exchange Through Sound and Memory is coming up in October 2021 and abstracts are due by 15 February… http://www.gim.ntu.edu.tw/ims-study-group-ghm2021/

Dear MSA Forum members,

On behalf of Milijana Pavlovic, I would like to bring to your attention the call for papers for the conference, “Music and Medicine: Musicological and Medical-Historical Approaches,” which is taking place in Innsbruck, Austria, from November 4 to 6, 2021. Please see the attached PDF for further details.

Cheers

Fred.

Dear MSA Form members,

From the IMS team:

From January 29 to 31, 2021, the School of Music at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts will host a free online music festival entitled “Szenenwechsel ‘Re-Mix’.” We cordially invite you to take part online via the following link: hslu.ch/szenenwechsel

As part of the festival, the researc…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

I draw your attention to a new study group established by the IMS, “Temporalities in Music Theater”.

The mission statement for the group is as follows:

Temporal structures and forces have yet to be meaningfully addressed by scholars of music theatrical genres. However, given music’s and drama’s fundamental and com…[Read more]

Dear MSA forum members,

Below, from the IMS team:

The Local Organizing Committee and Program Committee of the 21st Quinquennial IMS Congress (IMS2022) are delighted to announce that the official congress website, including the abstract submission portal, is now online:

https://pcoconvin.eventsair.com/ims22/

The IMS2022 Congress will be held in…[Read more]

An opportunity exists for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Music to teach into
the curriculum for the Western Civilisation Major. A significant part of
this teaching will include the development and delivery of a course on the
integral role of music in the development of Western cultures from
antiquity to the present time, not only in relation to how…[Read more]

Australasian Jazz and Improvisation Research Network 2021

Conference Conference Theme: Accessing Jazz and Improvised Music 

Conference Date: June 5–6, 2021 

The 2021 AJIRN conference theme “Accessing Jazz and Improvised Music” invites participants to consider the networks, infrastructure, physical and ideological barriers, creative problems…[Read more]