Popular Music Studies
News Archive (01)
first half-year 1999
Some of the hyperlinks are likely to be outdated!
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For Information concerning forthcoming conferences, go: |
| February 1999 | March 1999 | April 1999 | May 1999 | June 1999 |
| 26-May-1999 | The proceedings of the II
Latin-American IASPM Conference of Santiago, March 1997 got published now and are
available:
Contents (articles in Spanish and Portuguese): Chapter I: "Popular music and globalization" This 434 pp volume is available upon request. The price is U$ 20 plus shipping. By the way: The III Latinamerican IASPM Conference with the Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá, Colombia, will be held in Bogotá in November 2000. Contact: Juan-Pablo
Gonzalez |
| 23-May-1999 | Gage Averill (Music Dept., New
York University) as General Editor of a new Garland book series entitled "Perspectives on Global Pop" is currently soliciting manuscripts, proposals, ideas, and volume editors for books in the series. Organizers of thematically-focused symposia, conferences, or panels are encouraged to consider editing volumes that issue from this type of scholarly activity. The series is planned to consisting of scholarly essay collections exploring the global traffic in musical sounds that is reconfiguring the world's sonic map. Popular musics of the "west", from jazz to techno, have long sought new audiences and meanings in their global march; and subaltern popular musics - such as soukous, soca, rai, or bhangra - have also garnered international markets and influence. "Perspectives on Global Pop" showcases a cross-disciplinary dialogue on issues, theories, and regional studies in global popular musics and seeks to evaluate the repercussions of accelerated globalization and cultural hybridity. Please contact:
Gage Averill, |
| 22-May-1999 | The Journal of Aesthetics and
Art Criticism has published a special issue on aesthetics and popular
culture. Co-edited by Kathleen Higgins
(author of _The Music of Our Lives_ from Temple University Press and Joel Rudinow, keyboard player in the Elvin Bishop
Band, the issue features four essays on popular music:
There are eight other articles, including one on the X-Files as postmodern pop and another on the aesthetics of sports. The special issue is volume 57, number 2 (Spring 1999). |
| 21-May-1999 | Michael Drewett, Sociologist from
South African Rhodes University announces:
Details: Michael
Drewett, |
| 19-May-1999 | IASPM
in Turkey A few days ago a Turkish branch of IASPM (The International Association for the Study of Popular Music) was founded by members in Ýzmir and Ankara. For details go: Branches |
| 6-May-1999 | The National Rock &
Heavy Metal Archive (NRAHMA) is launched. NRAHMA is based on two private collections which were kindly donated, out of tragic circumstances, to Salford University by the families of Paul Moss and Stephen William Shaw. These comprehensive collections represent over three decades of rock music, encapsulating many classic and rare albums. The aim of NRAHMA is primarily to function as an informative database for research and general interest. Although the archive is not yet complete, there is an estimated 3000+ albums/singles available for archiving. Hopefully, as the database increases, NRAHMA will also be able to function as an accessible listening library. Any donations are very welcome. More information: |
| 3-May-1999 | The German Music
Information Centre (MIZ) has published a new issue (book and/or CD-ROM) of
its Music-Almanac, which is thought to be a reference book on the
musical life of Germany. For details in German visit this hyperlink: MUSIK-ALMANACH 1999/2000 |
| 1-May-1999 | The Jazz World Society announces the
new, 13th, edition of THE JAZZ PRESENTERS DIRECTORY 1999, is now available with resources
related to booking performers for clubs, concert series, corporate, college and other
events. For Details click on these links: |
| 26-April-1999 | Topia: Canadian Journal of
Cultural Studies is planning a special issue on the theme of "Music and Memory at the turn of the Millennium." We invite you to consider the topic with respect to the following three themes:
We invite both full size scholarly articles and brief reminiscences
or critical speculations. Both may be accompanied by musical examples for an accompanying
CD. Tentative proposals must be received by Friday, April 30,
for funding purposes. This proposal is being submitted to the Canada Council
Millennium Fund. Editor: Jody
Berland [jberland@yorku.ca] |
| 22-April-1999 | Popular
Music: Intercultural Interpretations, this has been the
title of IASPM's 9th international conference in Kanazawa/Japan two years ago (July 27-31,
1997). In the meantime Kanazawa University published the proceedings:
Payment can be made in the yen currency to the bank account of the 9th IASPM Conference Office: Ishikawa Bank, Tenjinmachi Branch (1-4-3 Tenjinmachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-0925, Japan; Telephone (+81)(0)76 222 3525). The ordinary deposit account number 0237112. Inquiries for mail-order send to |
| 17-April-1999 | Call
for Papers for a Callaloo Special Issue: Hip-Hop and Diaspora Is there a hip-hop Diaspora? What are the sites of hip-hop globally? What are the issues and themes? The deadline for the Callaloo issue had to be extended due to a delay at with earlier issues. The new deadline for abstracts (send 3 copies) is June 1. The point of this issue is to feed information about the global nature of hip-hop back to the audience of Callaloo (a US journal). Please address questions and all submissions to: Kyra D. Gaunt [kg6j@virginia.edu] |
| 12-April-1999 | Papers from the 6th
National Australian /New Zealand IASPM & Inaugural Arnhem Land Performance conference
will be published July 1999 by Wakefield Press. The volume will reflect
the eclectic mix of voices - academics and musical practitioners, the academy and the
industry - of the original conference. The publication will be available for purchase at
the Sydney International IASPM 1999 conference. Contact: Gerry Bloustien [gerry.bloustien@unisa.edu.au] |
| 30-March-1999 | Intermediate Report of IASPM's Executive Committee can be visited. Go: EC Report |
| 29-March-1999 | Wanted:
contribution for a collection of essays on "India in Britain:
Hybridities". The essay should highlight cultural mixes in contemporary
Britain between sub continental and Western styles of pop music (like in corner shop, Apache
Indian bangla, banghra, tablatronics etc.). Language English or German. The collection to
appear as part of the autumn edition of the Berlin based journal Hard times. Contact: [bernd-peter.lange@gse-w.uni-oldenburg.de] |
| 24-March-1999 | Bruce Johnson has assembled a bibliography of Australian popular music. This is a resource he put on his website: http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/jazz/. Go to 'Archive' under links, then to 'Bruce Johnson's Personal Archive'. |
| 23-March-1999 | Deborah Wong, Director of the Center for Asian Pacific America (University of California, Riverside) announces a conference "Unnatural Acts 1999 - Techno-Performatives: Simulations, Appropriations, Identities" (April 23-24, 1999). |
| 22-March-1999 | Popular Music and Society
is seeking article-length manuscripts for a special issue on nineteenth-century American
popular music to be published in 2001. All kinds of research in the area are invited,
except that manuscripts should not be exclusively musicological in focus and intent. There
are no limits on musical genres. Articles that explore issues of race, class, and/or
gender are especially welcome. Deadline for receipt of manuscripts is May 1, 2000. D Details: |
| 21-March-1999 | IASPM's German speaking branch invites to Berlin for a two-days coloquy in June (June 15-16, 1999) and a General Meeting of the branch. Main subject of the meeting is "Forschung (=research) on demand?!". |
| 19-March-1999 | The USA Songwriting Competition announces in 15 different categories international awards for songwriters, composers, bands, recording artists everywhere. Winners will be selected by a Blue Ribbon committee of music industry judges including record label publishers, producers and voting members of NARAS (Grammy Awards). Deadline for entries: May, 31, 1999. |
| 12-March-1999 | For some of those wanting to take part on IASPM's Sydney conference, the International Researcher Exchange Scheme (IREX) of the ARC (Australian research Council) might be an opportunity to get funding. |
| 11-March-1999 | Conditions for participation
and a registration
form for IASPM's international conference in Sydney/Australia (July 9-13, 1999) "Changing Sounds" are now published on the web. Follow the hyerlinks. Picturing Justice is a web site on-line journal which focuses on law and popular culture. The site features short (1000-2000 word) reviews and essays. The site is managed by John Denvir, Rob Waring, and Paul Joseph (Associate Dean for International and External Programs, Nova Southeastern University Law Center, 3305 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, phone: +1(954) 262-6171, fax: +1(954) 262-3835 (fax), email: josephp@nsu.law.nova.edu ) |
| 25-February-1999 | Anna Szemere, member at large of the
IASPM Executive Committee, changed job. She is is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow
with the American Council of Learned Societies and a Visiting Scholar at the Departments
of Sociology and Cultural Studies at the Department of Sociology and Cultural Studies,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her new mailing address: 822 Lake Forest Drive |
| 23-February-1999 | The Beatles
Studies Group at University of Jyvaskyla has just published
BEATLESTUDIES 1. It is published in the research series of their
university, therefore it is not available from bookstores. It is available from: FM
Terhi Nurmesjarvi-Skaniakos [nuteka@jyu.fi], |
| 19-February-1999 | New Design and contents for IASPM webpages:
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Last time updated on 29-August-1999 • © Heinz-Peter Katlewski
