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CFP: TAGS Conference 2013

Music and Music Technology, Keele University
Thursday 18th to Friday 19th April, 2013.

Deadline for proposals: 8th February 2013

Student travel bursaries available

Keynote Speaker: Philip Tagg

The SMA’s annual Theory and Analysis Graduate Students (TAGS) Conference will be hosted by Music and Music Technology at Keele University on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th April, 2013. The event provides a supportive and friendly environment in which postgraduates can gain experience in presenting their work and meet fellow researchers. Participants who do not wish to give a paper are also welcome.

Proposals are invited from postgraduate students for 20-minute papers, themed sessions and lecture recitals addressing any analytical, critical or theoretical subject and in relation to any style of music.

For 20-minute paper proposals, abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent by email to Becky Thumpston at r.m.thumpston@keele.ac.uk. Please include name, affiliation, postal address, email address, and AV requirements on a separate cover sheet. Organisers of themed sessions should also submit a brief overview of the rationale for the session, together with the individual abstracts. Proposals for lecture recitals should include full details of the proposed performance and any relevant requirements in their cover sheet.

The closing date for receipt of proposals is 8th February 2013. All those submitting proposals will be notified of the outcome by Monday 18th February. Booking will also open on that date. Delegates will be invited to register from 10am on Thursday 18 April. The conference will commence at lunchtime on 18 April and finish by 3pm on Friday 19 April.

If you are presenting a paper you will be eligible to apply for an SMA Student Travel Bursary to help cover the costs of travel and accommodation (B&B accommodation will be available on campus). Further details can be found at http://www.sma.ac.uk/grants/travel/ to follow; please note that the deadline for applications for this event is Thursday 28 March, 2013.

Posted on 22nd November 2012 by Shay Loya in CFPs, Music Analysis, SMA No comments » Tags:

CFP: International Conference on Analyzing Popular Music

An International Conference on Analyzing Popular Music will take place at Liverpool, 2-4 July 2013. Recent work in the analysis of popular music has set compelling new agendas which the conference will debate and celebrate. The conference will explore fundamental questions of theory and analytical method relating to popular music. Among those questions, to what extent are analytical techniques borrowed from the Classical instrumental repertoire appropriate for a music which often displays its complexity in timbre, texture, gesture and persona rather than in melody, harmony or form? What tools and technologies can illuminate the musicality of hip-hop and Indie pop, Björk and Dylan; from bluegrass to dubstep, Abba to Zawinul? Casting its net as broadly as possible across all genres and styles of rock and pop, including jazz and folk, the conference invites papers in topics including but not limited to:

• Modal harmony
• Sound design
• Narrative
• Metre and groove
• Voice and vocality
• Timbre and texture
• Ecological perception
• Gesture and embodiment
• Theoretical models of analysis
• Performance and improvisation
• Listening strategies and subject positions
• Value, signification, and pedagogy of analysis
• Analysis within industry and creative practice
• Computational, Neo-Riemannian and spectrum/sonic analysis
• Languages and notations of analysis, from the technical to the metaphorical

We are delighted to welcome three internationally distinguished keynote speakers:

• Anne Danielsen (University of Oslo)
• Walter Everett (University of Michigan)
• Allan Moore (University of Surrey).

POPMAC’s website is http://www.popmac.org.uk where you can find out more information and submit your abstract. The deadline for submissions is 28th February, 2013.

Committee:

• Michael Spitzer (Chairman)
• Nicola Dibben
• Dai Griffiths
• Tim Hughes
• Freya Jarman
• Nick Reyland
• Kenneth Smith
• Rob Strachan

The conference is dedicated to the memory of Adam Krims, who served on the Programming Committee until his recent, untimely death.

Posted on 5th October 2012 by Shay Loya in CFPs No comments » Tags:

New ties with GATM

Our equivalent organization in Italy, the Gruppo Analisi e Teoria Musicale (GATM), has recently approached us with the intention of exchanging information about each other’s activities. We welcome this exchange and would like to open it by informing our members of GATM’s annual conference which (at the time of writing) will take place imminently on 14-16 September 2012. Information is available in Italian here. We are assured we shall also receive materials in English in future. For more information about GATM see http://www.gatm.it.

Posted on 12th September 2012 by Shay Loya in Sister Organizations No comments » Tags:

TAGS 2012 reviews

TAGS 2012 has been covered by seven reviewers this year. Click here to read all about it!

For further information and other materials relating to this event click here.

Posted on 17th August 2012 by Shay Loya in Reviews, SMA No comments » Tags:

TAGS 2012 Programme

TAGS 2012 took place on 21st April at the University of Southampton.

For the conference programme, registration, location and further details click here.

Posted on 28th April 2012 by Shay Loya in SMA No comments » Tags:

‘Perspectives on Musical Improvisation’: CFP deadline extension

‘Perspectives on Musical Improvisation’ Conference – University of Oxford, 10-13 September 2012

The programme committee has extended the call for papers deadline by one week. The closing date is now Monday 16th January.

Please send submissions to impconfsubmission@music.ox.ac.uk

For submission guidelines and more details on the conference, go to http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/research/cpccm/perspectives-on-musical-improvisation-conference.html

Posted on 6th January 2012 by Shay Loya in CFPs No comments » Tags:

Perspectives on Musical Improvisation: CFP Reminder

Perspectives on Musical Improvisation will take place on 10-13 September 2012, at the University of Oxford. This is a reminder that submissions for this conference should be sent to impconfsubmission@music.ox.ac.uk. The deadline for submissions is Monday January 9 2012.

Please visit our website – http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/research/cpccm/perspectives-on-musical-improvisation-conference.html – to get further details on the conference and how to submit proposals for papers, poster presentations and practical sessions. The website will go live in March 2012 for registration and programme details.

Contact Mark Doffman at mark.doffman@music.ox.ac.uk for any queries regarding the conference.

Posted on 13th December 2011 by Shay Loya in CFPs No comments » Tags:

MSN/LancMAC 2011: Anne Hyland’s Review

Upon stepping onto the platform at Lancaster train station the day before the official commencement of the LancMAC/MSN conference, I met an American scholar (who had seen me poring over some scores on the way there) who asked: ‘are you speaking at MAC or MSN?’ The question (answered simply by ‘yes’) flagged up a potential issue for the meeting: how does one incorporate two established conferences into a single productive event which encourages exchange and interaction between the specialists in each field, and yet keeps both camps individually happy? » Read more: MSN/LancMAC 2011: Anne Hyland’s Review

Posted on 14th September 2011 by Shay Loya in Reviews No comments » Tags:

MSN/LancMAC 2011: Ben Curry’s Review

The drawing together of the Seventh International MSN conference and LancMAC was a bold and highly successful stroke that found an appropriate venue in the impressive new contemporary arts building at Lancaster University. The conference was attended by over 150 delegates from 20 countries. The scale of the conference was exceptional in that the seven parallel periods were all comprised of five themed sessions. This gave an enormous amount of choice and surely allowed most delegates to find a route through these well-chaired sessions that was informative and relevant to issues in their own research. I consider two highlights of my own route below; but first, the plenary sessions. » Read more: MSN/LancMAC 2011: Ben Curry’s Review

Posted on 14th September 2011 by Shay Loya in Reviews No comments » Tags:

MSN/LancMAC 2011: Rebecca Thumpston’s Review

The closing days of July brought together a diverse range of scholars and students for the Seventh International Conference on Music Since 1900 and the Lancaster University Music Analysis Conference. Held in the newly-opened Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts in Lancaster University, the conference opened with a plenary session, ‘Marking Time: On Contemporary Music and Historical Analysis’. This was a complex and intriguing discussion by members of the RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group, exploring issues of temporality in the analysis of contemporary music. It was followed by the first of the parallel sessions. As a member of the technical support team, I was scheduled to assist in ‘Form and Temporality’, in which resonances were apparent with the plenary session. » Read more: MSN/LancMAC 2011: Rebecca Thumpston’s Review

Posted on 11th September 2011 by Shay Loya in Reviews No comments » Tags: