... all 438 pages and 80 papers of it, is out! These are the details:

IASPM - The International Association for the Study of Popular Music
10th International Conference 9 to 13-July-1999 UTS, Sydney/Australia
Edited by Tony Mitchell, Peter Doyle, Finnish papers edited by Bruce Johnson
Design & Layout Michael Hill
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
Published in 2000 by Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
Individual articles © the authors Copyright © International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
All rights reserved
ISBN 1 86365 364 3

Anyone who wants to purchase a copy for $US 12, $ Australian 20, or 7 English pounds, can do so from me (money orders only please - as there are no credit card facilities) at 

... announces the 

For pianists of all ages without any restrictions, who want to take part in intensive piano classes and/or postgraduate development.

These two-week-series of events consist of various programs, numerous 

combined with optional methodical Improvisation lessons - including all periods of classical music - Jazz  improvisation - and several concerts, lectures related to the Hungarian music, visits to the residences of the greatest Hungarian composers such as 

• Franz Liszt Memorial Museum and Research Centre, 
• Bela Bartok Memorial House, 
• Zoltan Kodaly Memorial Museum And Archives.

The master class will be held by three piano professors:

Those, who are interested in getting more information should take a visit on:

http://www.principal.hu/bipmc2001.htm

Application is available online:

http://www.principal.hu/bipmc2001/application.html

If you are seriously interested in participation in it, we can POST you an information brochure by clicking the following link: 

mailto:principl@westel900.net?subject=REQUEST_for_information_brochure

Please do not forget to indicate your postal address in your message!

has been appointed Professor of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney/Australia.

The repertoire development of the transnational recording industry with special focus on the Austrian music market is the subject of a recently published research report by the Viennese research institute 

Unfortunately it was only published in German. Details: Vienna; October 2000 (228 pages / ATS 350,- / Euro 26,-). According to a press release, the report evaluates globalization beyond the nightmare of cultural imperialism. The development over the last years is illustrated with data and tables about the Austrian and the international recording industry. How has "in the global age" the technological, legal, industrial and professional environment of music production changed and thereby influenced the musical repertoire? Furthermore the report lists the "major-players" on the world market, illustrates their global strategies and their role on the Austrian music market.

To order, write to:

... a music-centered journal has just launched its third issue at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/echo/ It includes a roundtable discussion entitled

in which Reebee Garofalo, Bob Fink, Casper Partovi, and Becky Gebhardt discuss Napster and related issues in the history of music and technology. ECHO also offers an online bulletin board wherereaders can respond to the panelists and continue the debate. We invite IASPM members to participate!

For more information about ECHO, please write to 

...suggests in an e-mail to the IASPM mailing list, to join the Mediterranean Studies Section of the American Folklore Society (AFSMSS), an organization committed to fostering research on the expressive culture of Southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The group encourages interdisciplinarity and conceptualizes the notion of the Mediterranean broadly, including both the societies situated on the Mediterranean rim as well as the immigrant and ethnic populations of Mediterranean peoples world wide. AFSMSS maintains an electronic discussion list and invites members to post queries and information on upcoming conferences, special archival collections, useful data bases and other educational resources. In keeping with the mandate of the American Folklore Society, this section aims to build a larger constituency by forging links between local and international organizations and providing people of diverse backgrounds with a forum for discussing the current state and future directions of Mediterranean studies.

Membership in AFSMSS is open to members of the American Folklore Society and all those interested in the scholarly study of Mediterranean folklore. 

To join the section, send e-mail to the section convener:

Giovanna P. Del Negro
 at delnegro@tamu.edu 
or contact her by paper mail at:

have "interest groups" for popular music studies. As a result of discussions among members of the 

• Society for Music Theory,
• Society for Ethnomusicology, and 
• Society for American Music,

there will be a gathering of members from these interest groups, including members of IASPM: 

6:30-7:30 PM on Saturday (November 5, 2000), 
in the "Trader's Bar and Grill" in Toronto Sheraton. 

The hope is that people from these different groups will have seen some of each others' papers and can discuss etc. 

... the one-stop web resource on women + electronic music, launched recently. The site features interviews, essays, reviews & a good links page. Webmaster Tara Rodgers is always looking for writers, musicians, & artists to contribute.

William Echard announces the creation of a music semiotics subsite at the Open Semiotics Resource Center he created himself. To find it, go to 

and follow the link to The Semiotic Frontline. The intention of the site is to provide a mediated yet open-ended forum for the discussion of current issues in semiotic research. Each topic area (music is one of several, with plans to add more in the near future) has been seeded with a position paper, to which extended responses are invited. It is hoped that this can be the beginning of a fruitful exchange, intermediate in nature between a discussion group and an online journal.

Any questions? Get in touch with:

The Smith College Department of Music invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, Ph.D. required. The successful candidate will have a background in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, or music theory. She or he will be expected to teach a course in rock music and courses at various levels in American music, such as rock, pop, jazz, musical theater, or film music. The candidate's primary expertise will likely be in one of these areas. This position will be affiliated with the American Studies Program or possibly the Department of Afro-American Studies, and will require some teaching on a regular basis outside the music department.

Resume and three letters of recommendation should be sent to by 15 December 2000 to: 

Chair
Vernacular Music Search Committee
Department of Music
Smith College
Northampton
MA 01063
USA 

Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Smith College is committed to maintaining a diverse community in an atmosphere of mutual respect and appreciation of differences. Smith College does not discriminate in its educational and employment policies on the bases of race, color, creed, religion, national/ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, or with regard to the bases outlined in the Veterans Readjustment Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Smith's admissions policies and practices are guided by the same principle, concerning women applying to the undergraduate program and all applicants to the graduate programs.

... is the title for a book in process edited Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Hector D. Fernandez L'Hoeste, & Eric Zolov. This is the editors

If it is undeniable that rock and roll originated in the United States, popular music scholars have far too often ethnocentrically assumed that the "rock and roll revolution" was solely a US/West European phenomenon. Yet simultaneous with rock and roll's inception in the 1950s, the music and youth culture it spawned was also transported to other English and non-English speaking countries around the world. Latin America was especially receptive to this transnational process. Throughout Latin America rock and roll (and later, rock) was embraced by growing middle class youth populations in the 1960s, and by the 1980s rock was also claimed by working and lumpen proletariat youth. Over time, vigorous nationally-identified rock and roll scenes have developed throughout the Americas, following similar yet divergent trajectories, and transforming the region's cultural landscape in profound ways; contemporary Latin/o American rock has its origins in these historical processes. No nation, from revolutionary Cuba to indigenous Ecuador, has been exempt from the cultural impact of rock, yet to date there are very few studies that seek to catalogue and explore these phenomena and none that offers to do so comparatively. This volume will address that important gap.

The editors are seeking essays from different disciplinary perspectives that explore the complex dynamics of the contemporary rock en español phenomena. We are especially interested in articles analyzing the implications of rock's current location within the cultural landscapes of transnational communities, global capitalism, and the intersecting discourses and practices of regional and national identities. We are looking for papers that cover the "politics of rock" (in a cultural, political, and material sense), from a variety of national contexts while addressing questions of production (e.g. transnational/local), dissemination (e.g. mass media/underground), and consumption (class/race/ethnic/gender/generational dynamics). We anticipate that these articles will simultaneously place their discussion within a historical context. Essays offering strictly historical perspectives on the development of rock in different Latin American countries will also be considered, though we would expect these essays to address the contemporary implications of the movement(s) they discuss.

Questions that might be addressed include (but are not limited to):

• How has rock music, a transnational phenomenon originating in the United States, been resignified in other national contexts? 

• In what ways does Latin American rock serve as a medium for expressing one's national identity (for example, by drawing on local musical/cultural/political inventions) and how is that expression shaped by rock's links to global networks of communication? 

• How are the tensions between desires for local belonging (to the nation, one's barrio, class, etc.) negotiated with desires for cosmopolitan belonging -- especially given that "local" often means dealing with the politics of poverty and repression while "cosmopolitan" means engaging, in one form or another, the influence of the United States?

• Can there be a national rock in a transnational era?

Other topics that would be of interest might include essays offering Latin American perspectives on issues or themes that have engaged English-language rock scholars. For example: 

• What do the terms "rock" and "rock and roll" mean in Latin American contexts -- are distinctions made between these two categories, and if so, what criteria are such distinctions based on? 

• How do Latin Americans interpret those subgenres of rock - from rhythm and blues to soul to disco to rap - that have historically been associated with African Americans? In what ways does Latin American rock confirm or challenge the sort of racialized and class associations characteristic of rock and its subgenres in the U.S?

• While the primary focus of this volume is on rock en español in Latin American contexts, we will also entertain essays on related topics, for example, those exploring rock's relationship to local/national/transnational popular music genres which have competed with, been built upon, or developed in opposition to rock (e.g. cumbia, banda, salsa, nueva canción, world beat). 

Similarly, articles on appropriations/transformations of rock and roll, such as reggae and rap en español, may also be included, provided the author explicitly addresses their relationship with rock. Finally, articles which explore the growing impact of Latino audiences in the United States on rock music will also be considered.

Brief (1-2 pages) synopses of proposed manuscripts and c.v. should be submitted to each of the editors (see email addresses below) by January 1, 2001. The editors prefer manuscripts submitted in English but are willing to work with authors to arrange translation from other languages.

Deborah Pacini Hernandez
(deborah_pacini_hernandez@brown.edu)
Associate Professor of American Civilization and Urban Studies, 
Brown University. 

Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste
(fernandez@gsu.edu)
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Georgia State University in Atlanta.

President: 
Juan Pablo González
(musicología, Instituto de Musica, Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Treasurer/Membership Secretary:
Martha Ulhoa
(musicología, Instituto Villa-Lobos, Universidad de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

Publication Officer:
Ana María Ochoa
(etnomusicología, Colombia/México)

The University of Pennsyvania offers a tenure-track position with an initial 4-year appointment in 

ethnomusicology,
anthropology of music,
popular-music studies or cultural studies in music; 

Teaching responsibility includes both graduate and undergraduate courses. Candidates should have completed the Ph.D. by 7/1/2001. Rank: Asst. Professor. Start Date: Academic Year of 2001-02.

Application deadline: 15-October-2000
Applications should include a detailed CV and 3 letters of recommendation to be sent to: 

Chair, Search Committee
Univ of Pennsylvania
Department of Music
201 S. 34th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6313
USA
Email: music@sas.upenn.edu 

EOE/AA, Applications from women and minority groups are particularly encouraged.

... professor and head of communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been named senior research fellow of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, an initiative of the Pew Research Center and funded by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. The mission of the Pew Internet Project is to conduct objective, nonpartisan research on the social impact of the Internet. "Steve Jones is one of the premiere researchers on the planet when it comes to assessing the impact the Internet is having on people's lives," said Harrison "Lee" Rainie, director of the Pew Internet Project and former managing editor of U.S. News & World Report. "From the day the project was created, Steve has given me invaluable advice about the most pressing issues to study and the best way to study them." Jones will help create and analyze research projects that examine the Internet's impact on fundamental relationships at home and in the community, schools, churches, workplaces and civic life. Jones will also work with other academic researchers to bring to the center the latest in thinking regarding the Internet.