Dear MSA members,

Last Friday Aboriginal teacher and music & language researcher Alison Nangala Ross B.Ed passed away tragically in her classroom at Neutral Junction School, NT. Alison was one of the first solo Indigenous people to present at an MSA conference back in 2001, in Melbourne, on Kaytetye songs. Together with Myfany Turpin, she…

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The History of Applied Science & Technology Open Access Textbook editors seek peer reviewers for all regions and all periods.

The History of Applied Science and Technology Open Access Textbook editors are seeking an Africanist to join our team.

Dear MSA Forum members,

Please see below a message from the organisers of this year’s MSA conference, in light of the evolving situation surrounding COVID-19:

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The Musicological Society of Australia’s 43rd Annual Conference, to be held at the  Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne, has been put on hold unti…[Read more]

CONTEXT: Journal of Music Research is published by the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne, and is edited by a committee of staff and postgraduate research students.

Now in its thirtieth year, CONTEXT publishes research articles, book reviews, edited interviews with composers and research project reports. CONTEXT is a…[Read more]

CFP: Analog Afterlives: Obsolescence / Mediation / Re-Collection

Analog Afterlives

Symposium Supported by the Macgeorge Fellowship at the University of Melbourne

Convened by Dr Nicholas Tochka (U Melbourne) and A/Prof Kyle Devine (U Oslo)

Abstract Deadline: 31 March 2020

Notifications: 30 April 2020

21-22 August 2020

Melbourne…[Read more]

Description
We are currently looking for two PhD or MRes Year 2 + PhD candidates to investigate any topic related to the environmental humanities that explores cultural, social, or ecological contexts of multi-species sonic environments. This could include field recordings, music composition, sound art, radio broadcast/podcast, soundscape ecology,…[Read more]

I am very pleased to announce the publication of an unofficial special issue of MUSICultures (46: 2) on music and the environment. This issue complements our recent issue on ecologies (45: 1-2), and I’m delighted that Aaron Allen and Jeff Todd Titon were willing to preface the current issue with a special introduction.

This issue is available to…[Read more]

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