Dear MSA members,

Some of you may have heard me mention at the Adelaide conference in December that Australia was very close to the required number of members of the International Musicological Society (IMS) that would give us a place on the IMS Directorium.

I was informed yesterday that the number of members is now 32 following a few new…[Read more]

Music, Society, Agency Musicologists have increasingly taken a wide-angled lens on the study of music in society, to explore how it can be intertwined with issues of politics, gender, religion, race, psychology, memory, and space. Recent studies of music in connection with society take in a variety of musical phenomena from diverse periods and…[Read more]

REMINDER – CFP

The interwar period in both Europe and Australia was a fascinating and crucial time for the re-building and reconsideration of national identity. Reeling from the trauma of the Great War, negotiating postwar transitions, surviving the Depression of the 1930s, and hurtling towards yet another world war, all had an impact on c…[Read more]

Dear colleagues

Applications are now open for the 2024 Elizabeth Wood Fellowships at The University of Adelaide:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/363068/the-elizabeth-wood-research-fellowship-in-musicology/

Note that this year two fellowships will be awarded.

Kind regards

Paul

Musicology Australia is pleased to announce the publication of issue 45/1, available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmus20/current

Musicology Australia is open to new submissions at any time. Contributors are not required to write on Australian music or be Australian-based musicologists. For further information and instructions for potential…[Read more]

Yo, peeps! Some new exciting PhD- and Postdoc-positions advertised at my home institution if any of you or people in your networks are interested:

• Doctoral Research Fellowship in Musical Rhythm and Groove
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Rhythm and Music Production
• Doctoral Research Fellowship in Music Production
• Doctoral Research…

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Musical Nationbuilding and Cultural Exchange in Interwar France and Europe
2-3 August 2024, Melbourne
 

The interwar period in both Europe and Australia was a fascinating and crucial time for the re-building and reconsideration of national identity. Reeling from the trauma of the Great War, negotiating postwar transitions, surviving the…[Read more]

Hi peeps!

Thanks again for an inspiring gettogether in Denver!

The question of whether the interest group should give out an award came up again, and I have thought of something of a counter-suggestion.

We’ve been discussing the problems of canonisation, both in regards of music and scholarship, and the idea of awarding “outstanding…[Read more]

For those wanting to diversify their music research, teaching, and recital programmes, do go and check out the MSA’s new Diversity Resource List. It includes sample syllabi, links to databases, co-design protocols, and repertoire lists arranged by instrument, among other useful resources.

Many thanks to all who have contributed so far!

If…[Read more]

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]

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]