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Jacob P. Cupps started the topic PMIG 2023 Awards Nominations are Open! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoNominations are officially open for the Popular 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 public…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited Formal Functions and Rotations in Top-40 EDM in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoPublications on form in popular music have largely assumed the formal sections germane to pop-rock to be the formal designs of “popular music.” But the most popular music of our time—music charting on the Billboard Top-40—has absorbed the influence of electronic dance music (EDM) in a way that has fundamentally changed its formal structu…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited The Subdominant Tritone in Film and Television Music in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoTritones sounding over subdominant harmony, either as suspensions, accented passing tones, or incomplete neighbors, constitute a class of sonorities regularly heard in film and television music. I collectively refer to these phenomena as “subdominant tritones” (SdTT), and theorize a link between the SdTT and emotions it engenders. The article pre…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic IASPM Conference Registration (Minneapolis) in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoRegistration is now open for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) biennial global conference, hosted by the US branch (IASPM-US) in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota. The global conference has not been hosted in North America since 2007 and not in the US since 1993. The conference runs Monday, June 26…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic PMIG 2023 Session in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoHi Everyone!
We are currently accepting informal proposals and ideas for the topic and format of our Fall meeting. We will be in Denver in November for SMT, which is being held jointly with AMS. We are particularly interested in formats that include some element of interactivity with attendees, though any and all proposals will be considered. We…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Popular Music Theory & Analysis Summer School (IPM-IPM-SMA) in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoPopular Music Theory & Analysis Summer School (IPM-IPM-SMA)
Tuesday 29th – Thursday 31st August 2023, University of Liverpool
The Institutes of Popular Music of both Rochester and Liverpool, together with the Society for Music Analysis, are pleased to announce their second Summer School dedicated to popular music theory and analysis. Teachin…[Read more]
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Kaleb E. Goldschmitt deposited From Miami to Hong Kong SoundingTransnational Queerness and Translation in Moonlight in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThrough the example of Barry Jenkins’ choices for Moonlight (2016), this chapter argues that pre-existing musical cues can link a film’s themes to other minority filmmaking traditions. The song at the center of this chapter, “Cucurrucucú Paloma,” exemplifies the kinds of cultural translations common in transnational queer cinema. It was orig…[Read more]
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Bernd Brabec deposited Academic (In)Discipline, Research (In)Sanity and the Conundrum of (Indigenous) Timescapes in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis contribution focuses on strategies to bridge what in anthropology is called ontological incommensurability: Indigenous worlds often seem inaccessible to modern thought. Instead of trying to open Indigenous worlds to Westerners, I rather intend to make Western worlds accessible to Indigenous thought; and likewise, academic disciplines…[Read more]
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Gavin Holman deposited The Brass Band Bibliography (v17 – 2023) in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoA comprehensive list of books, articles, theses, and other material covering the brass band movement, its history, instruments and musicology; together with other related topics (originally issued in book form in January 2009. [c. 12, 710 entries]
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Brad Osborn deposited Triangulating Timbre in Sigur Rós’s Iceland in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoOsborn, Brad and D.K. Blake. 2019. “Triangulating Timbre in Sigur Rós’s Iceland.” In *Sounds Icelandic*, edited by Thorbjörg Daphne Hall, N. Dibben, Á.H. Ingólfsson, and T. Mitchell. Equinox Press, 208–219.
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Daphne Leong started the topic CFP: Rhythm in Music since 1900 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory Analysis of World Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoOn the heels of the exciting AAWM symposium series (June 2023) on rhythm and meter in world musics, we are pleased to announce:
Rhythm in Music since 1900
22-24 September, 2023
Schulich School of Music, McGill University
Call for presentations
Submission deadline: 1 May 2023
Keynote speakers:
- Nicole Lizée, compose…
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Mikkel Vad started the topic CFP: Teaching Popular Music Studies in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoHi all,
Please consider submitting a proposal for this special session at this year’s AMS/SMT conference.
Best,
Mikkel
CFP: Teaching Popular Music <wbr />Studies: Pedagogy and Curriculum
American Musicological Society Popular Music Study Group
Submission deadline: February 21, 2023
Conference Dates: November 9–12, 2023, Denver, CO
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Landon Morrison started the topic CFP Deadline Extended: “Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures” in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years agoInstruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media
>> UPDATE: new deadline for submission of proposals is Tuesday, January 31st @ 11:59pm
We are pleased to announce a three-day conference bringing together researchers and artists from a variety of music-related disciplines for a dialogue on the i…[Read more]
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Susanne Wosnitzka deposited Beethovens und Mozarts verschollene Oboenkonzert-Manuskripte: Eine gemeinsame ‘heiße Spur’ in Augsburg in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoIm Jahr 2002 kam die fast verzweifelte Suche nach Beethovens verschollenem Oboenkonzert zu einem vorläufigen Ende, weil die Forschung an dieser Stelle nicht weiterkam. Jetzt habe ich neue Hinweise auf das autographe Dokument gefunden – und auch auf Mozarts verschollenes Oboenkonzert sowie auf eine unbekannte Oper von Joseph Haydn. Es ist kein Zu…[Read more]
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Susanne Wosnitzka deposited Beethoven’s and Mozart’s Lost Oboe Concerto Manuscripts: A New Lead in Augsburg in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoIn 2002 the research for Beethoven’s lost oboe concerto came to a temporary end. Now I’ve found new leads to the autograph manuscript – and to Mozart’s lost oboe concerto, too, and to a lost opera of Joseph Haydn. It is no coincidence that all autograph manuscripts are missing at the same time: They were together and possibly are, played in a c…[Read more]
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Marcello Messina deposited The Internet of Musical Stuff (IoMuSt): ubimus perspectives on artificial scarcity, virtual communities and (de)objectification in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoPart of the recent developments in Ubiquitous Music (ubimus) research involve the proposal of the Internet of Musical Stuff (IoMuSt) as an expansion and complement to the Internet of Musical Things (IoMusT). The transition from IoMusT to IoMuSt entails a critique of blockchain and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as technologies for allotment,…[Read more]
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Landon Morrison started the topic CFP: “Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures” (Harvard, May 11-13, 2023) in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoCALL 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]
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Katie Lakner started the topic Transcription Help Needed in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoHello! 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]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic IASPM-US 2023 CFP in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoIASPM-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
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic 2022 PMIG Session Schedule in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago2022 SMT PMIG Schedule
Friday, Nov. 11, 12:30–2:00pm
Chair: Matthew Ferrandino; Secretary: Emily Milius; Webmaster: Jacob Cupps
12:30–35 – Intro/Welcome
12:35–1:35 – Presentations (details below)
1:35–1:50 – Q&A
1:50–1:55 – Trevor de Clercq, PMIG “Splinter Groups”
1:55–2:00 – AK and OP award recipients [Read more]
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