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We are pleased to announce the program of the 2023 Grainger Symposium ‘New Media and Old Archives – Exploring Twentieth-Century Music, Media and Technology’ at the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne on 8 December 2023.

Details of the program and registration (for both online and in-person participation) are available here: https://grainger.u…[Read more]

Following our formal PMIG session we will have an opportunity for an informal breakout discussion in Governer’s Square 10 regarding pop “theory” papers and conference options. Brad Osborn and Alyssa Barna will speak briefly about this at the end of our session, so this is a time and place to continue that conversation. We have the space on Friday…[Read more]

We are seeking nominations for the following officer positions for SMT’s Popular Music Interest Group. Self nominations are encouraged! Please email all nominations to pmigwebmaster@gmail.com. Nominations will close at 5:00 pm EST on Nov. 26, 2023.

CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting re…[Read more]

Proposals are invited for next year’s symposium Oceanic Networks of Music and Dance: Performing Continuities, Regeneration and Resonances Across Cultures hosted by the Study Group on Music and Dance of Oceania, an association of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance. This 2-day symposium will coincide with the 13th Festival…[Read more]

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]

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 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]