Monthly Archives March 2010

CFP: Popular Music Special Issue: East Asian Popular Music

East Asian Popular Music
Call for Papers for Popular Music Special Issue
Popular Music announces a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on East Asian Popular Music. We are particularly interested in submissions which address the transnational production and circulation of East Asian Popular Music both within and outside the East Asian region as a result [...]

CFP: Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945
The British Academy, London
Thursday 13 January – Saturday 15 January 2011
Proposals are invited for this conference, to be held at the British Academy in London, in conjunction with the University of Nottingham.
The relationship between state communism and music behind the Iron [...]

New e-book out on music and everyday life

Sounds of the Overground
Selected papers from a postgraduate colloquium on ubiquitous music and music in everyday life
Edited by Nedim Hassan and Holly Tessler
A new e-book published by the International Institute for Popular Culture, University of Turku, Finland. Available at http://iipc.utu.fi/overground/ (direct link) or http://iipc.utu.fi/publications.html
Musical and auditory experiences are frequently central to peoples’ [...]