Year: 2011

CFP: THE 3rd INTER-ASIA POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES CONFERENCE (Taipei, 2012)

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DATE: July 13 (Fri) – 15 (Sun), 2012, featuring Postgraduate Sessions on July 13

VENUE: Lecture Hall (first floor) and Audio-Visual Room (second floor), Extension School of Continuing Education Building, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Campus map: http://www.ntnu.edu.tw/ga/map/images/ntnu_map2.jpg

ORGANIZERS:

Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Group (https://interasiapop.org/)

Department of Psychology, Fu Jen Catholic University

Graduate Institute of Mass Communication, National Taiwan Normal University

STATEMENT:

We are pleased to announce the 3rd Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies (IAPMS) Conference, which will take place on July 13-15, 2012 in Taipei, in collaboration with the Department of Psychology at Fu Jen Catholic University and the Graduate Institute of Mass Communication at National Taiwan Normal University. Following the first conference in Osaka in 2008 and the second conference in Hong Kong in 2010, we move our next meeting to Taipei—hub of vibrant indie music scenes and Mandarin pop music industries.

The studies on Asian popular music are still in its embryonic stage. There is neither a university program in Asia devoted to popular music studies nor a journal dedicated to the exploration of Asian popular music. What we have now is an online-based, transnational research portal that began in 2007, the Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Group, plus a rapidly expanding research network that at the moment includes 80 scholars not only in Asia but also in Europe, America and Oceania. The organization is young and enthusiastic about the rising academic interest in Asian popular music both inside and outside Asia. There is a growing feeling that Asian popular music has not received sufficient attention from international popular music studies and that the existing paradigms of popular music studies may not be adequate in understanding the culture, economies, and histories of Asian popular music. The IAPMS biennial conference is meant to foster scholarly conversations surrounding the emerging field of Inter-Asia popular music studies.

CONFERENCE THEME (IAPMS∙2012∙Taipei):

WAYS OF LISTENING: How do we listen to pop music in/from Asia, and how can we talk about it?

Pop music lovers, makers, and critics take the activity of listening to music for granted. Yet it is not always easy to express our/my listening experiences to others. It is even more challenging to elaborate the social and cultural implications of the differing responses.

Can the question, “how do we listen to pop music” prompt interest in the “ways of listening”?

For example, who is listening to Asian pop music? What constitutes pop music listening? Where does music-listening take place? What activities and connections accompany the act of listening? How is everyday life organized through music listening? What personal, social, affective, and technological experiments have seeped through pop music listening? How do the recording and consumer’s technologies affect the ways of listening in contemporary and historical Asian contexts? Do musicians and critics listen to music and do they do music differently from “ordinary” music fans? Can music listening be creative practices? How are the ways of listening linked to various moments and results of production? How have listening and interpretive practices transformed Asian pop music as social distinction, identity markers, professional knowledge, genres, businesses, and markets?

We invite paper proposals that will investigate, elaborate, contextualize, and historicize the experiences of listening to (Asian) pop music globally and/or in Asia. We welcome papers that address moments that open up to expression and conversation about how people engage pop music. Since this could be a task beyond the measure of words, we invite you to turn the thematic question around with an attitude, such as, “Hey! This is how “we/I/they” action Asian pop music!”

We welcome both individual paper and panel proposals under the umbrella theme. In addition, we welcome individual and panel proposals for the following panel themes geared toward publication projects:

-Current issues in Asian popular music studies

-Research methodologies for the studies of Asian popular music

-Pop music, cultural variability and globalization

M.A. and Ph.D. students: IAPMS∙2012∙Taipei features a postgraduate day! Please consider submitting a proposal!

HOW TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS:

The organizers of IAPMS∙2012∙Taipei would like to invite interested participants to send your abstracts of no more than 250 words to iapms2012taipei@gmail.com before January 31, 2012.

Please use the attached Proposal Form (right click to download) when submitting your proposal. If you plan to organize a panel with more than two people, please coordinate with the panelists to put all the necessary information on one form (e.g., panel title, paper titles, individual abstracts, panelists information). A panel description is not necessary.

LANGUAGE: Given the diverse languages spoken in Asia, English will be the working language for the conference. Given the presence of many bilingual and multi-lingual speakers in Asia, translation service may become available during Q/A, upon request. We welcome multi-lingual participants to volunteer their service. Please contact us if you are willing to help.

Please email all inquiries to: iapms2012taipei@gmail.com

TIMELINE AND DEADLINES

2011.08.31              Announcing call-for-papers

2012.01.31              Deadline for submitting proposals

2012.02.29              Announcing accepted proposals

2012.03.31              Announcing conference program and information on

registration, travel, and accommodation

2012.06.31              Deadline for submitting full papers

2012.07.13              Conference begins

2012.07.15              Conference ends

REGISTRATION FEE

Waged members: NT$ 800 (=US$ 30)

Unwaged members: NT$ 400 (=US$ 15)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Tunghung HO (Fu-jen Catholic University, Taiwan)

Eva TSAI (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

Miao-Ju JIAN (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan)

Anthony FUNG (Chinese University, Hong Kong/China)

Yoshitaka MORI (Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan)

Kai Khiun LIEW (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Yukie HIRATA (Dokkyo University, Japan)

Hyunjoon SHIN (Sungkonghoe University, Korea)

Jung-Yup LEE (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA/Korea)

NOTES

Please observe that this conference is scheduled after the ACS Crossroads 2012 Conference in Paris. For more information on that conference please go to: http://www.crossroads2012.org/?q=en/node/26

‘I’M NOT TIGHT WITH BRIT-POP, BUT I WAS A BRIT-POP DJ FOR ONE NIGHT’ ~INTERVIEW WITH DJ MIRACLE

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by terebikun

What do university teachers need to know besides teaching, researching, grant writing, and organizing conferences? How about throwing good socials? To make a good social, you will most definitely need help from enthusiastic and talented young people.

On October 29, 2010, students from the Graduate Institute of Mass Communication at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) took over the terrace just outside the entrance of the College of Education Building. With posters, flyers, candles, and projected video on the wall, they made a cozy nook for the Happy Hour social following the conference, “Becoming Mobilized and Networked! Technology, Gender, and Inter-Asia Popular Culture in the South.”

In the corner, a medium-built, bespectacled young man in a blue “N.Y.C.” sweatshirt was connecting a laptop, a digital mixer, speakers and cables. Meet DJ Miracle (Yen Cheng-ling), the sonic man awaiting to transform the brief dusk-hour social as soon as the last session let out. A recent graduate who wrote a M.A thesis on the use and invention of “Asianized” sounds by Taiwanese electronic music producers, he first revealed his specialized interest in a required course. A bedroom DJ for years, he said he was coming out that day.

A week after the conference, I met with DJ Miracle at a café near the university. Listening (again) to his set, entitled “Trajectory 8,” we talked about his debut experience and the work behind his set.

Note: It’s taken me a while to do this piece. And I learned a lot about what my student can do and how they listen to pop music! Some of you were there (e.g., Tunghung, Ubonrat, Viriya, Hyunjoon). Perhaps the piece can serve as a memento.

Download the PDF file of the complete interview Brit-Pop DJ for One Night.

 

CFP: Cultural Transformations: Development Initiatives and Social Movements (Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society)

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Cultural Transformations: Development Initiatives and Social Movements
The  bi-annual conference of the Inter Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACSS), which is engaged in exploring new ways to re-imagine the idea of Asia in the new century. Inter-disciplinary in nature, the conference will establish a dialogue between academics, practitioners, social and cultural activists from inside and outside the region to problematise the idea of Asia. The conference is being hosted by BRAC University and is organized by the Department of English and Humanities and BRAC Development Institute.

South Asia in Inter-Asia
This year’s conference will bring in South Asia more centrally within IACSS and also makes efforts to draw in scholars from West Asia into the fold of IACSS.  Hosted in Bangladesh, this conference will be able to shed light on groundbreaking innovations in the development arena, such as in education, livelihoods, health, etc.

New cultural forms and trends such as music, dance, film and popular literature, will bring out the mutual influences between cultural practice and economic and social development.

Envisioning a new picture of Asia – an other Asia – this conference invites paper and panel proposals on issues such as

  • Social movements and struggles
  • Development initiatives and cultural change
  • Asian feminisms and social change
  • The post-colonial, the national and the pan-Asian in the formation of new cultural identities
  • Changes and developments in popular cultural practices, including music, dance, film and popular literature
  • Other topics in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies are also welcome

Panels should comprise of 3-5 papers. Proposals for papers and panels will be submitted by the 31st of May 2011. Acceptance of panels will be announced by June 20 2011.

Proposals for papers and panels should include:

  • abstracts of papers (maximum 300 words)
  • panels proposals should include a session abstract, plus abstracts of individual papers
  • short biographical information, including institutional affiliation.

Please email paper and panel proposals to culturaltrans@bracu.ac.bd

Participants need to pay for their own travel and accommodation. However, accommodation in Dhaka will be arranged by the hosts.

A few small bursaries may be available, information for which will be posted later.

More information will be available on this website as we plan further.

http://www.bracu.ac.bd/event/culturaltransformations/

CFP: Inaugural East Asian Popular Culture Association Conference

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CFP: Inaugural East Asian Popular Culture Association Conference

Location: Taiwan

Call for Papers Date: 2011-05-31

The EAPCA (East Asian Popular Culture Association), the newest branch of the PCA / ACA, will hold its inaugural conference in September 1 to 3, 2011 at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. The EAPCA invites proposals for panels and papers on popular culture in Asia, particularly in Taiwan. We encourage papers with imaginative perspectives and interpretations of popular culture as a medium to convey memories and history, as we hope to explore issues such as the way popular culture has been used to adopt meaning to the past events, how the global flow of popular culture changes the way people recognize their own history, and how the popular culture affect the socio-cultural map of East Asia. We welcome submissions for panels, roundtable discussions, workshops, and individual papers. As the language of the conference is English, the proposals should be in English as well. All submissions should be sent by email, with attachments in Word or PDF file format. Please write EAPCA proposal in the subject line. When submitting a panel proposal:

include a 150 200 words abstract of the panels theme

designate one panelist as contact personindicate audio/visual needs.

Each paper proposal, whether individual or part of a panel, should include for each participant:

one page abstract (including title)

short biography of the author

audio/visual needs

contact information of address, phone number, and email

The Program Committee assumes all members of proposed panels have agreed to participate.

The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2011.

Please email submissions to:

Dr. Yin C. Chuang

National Taiwan Normal University

Masashi Ichiki

Chikushi Jogakuen University

jun@chikushi-u.ac.jp