Monthly Archives September 2007

Not Your Sedentary Night~MISIA in Concert, Taipei, 9/29/2007

As we slowly descended from the nose-bleeding section in Hsinchuan Stadium Taipei County with crowds still mesmerized by MISIA’s final encore sequence , my friend asked me, “So who’s the most popular singer in Japan now?” Uninterested in the question, I said, “Who cares? Tonight I found my generation here!”
I have only started going to [...]

CFP: Music and Trauma (A Collection of Essays)

Call for proposals: music and trauma   
I am writing to invite contributions to a collection of essays on music in relation to trauma. Essays in the collection will relate aspects of trauma to aspects of music in a range of ways. Trauma may be understood as individual or collective/social; as the result of particular traumatic events [...]

CFP: IASPM-UK/Ireland

Call for Papers
Popular Music Studies: Problems, Disputes, Questions,
University of Glasgow,
12-14 September 2008.
The biennial conference of the UK and Ireland branch of IASPM will be hosted
by the Department of Music at the University of Glasgow between 12 and 14
September 2008.
Conference Theme
The aim of this conference is to address the issues that have in recent years excited [...]