Dear MSA Forum members,

I bring to your attention the Second RISM Lecture, “The Bach Collection of the Berlin Staatsbibliothek,” which will be held online on May 26, 2021, at 18:00 CET (16:00 UTC). Christoph Wolff, who was president of RISM from 2004 to 2013 and has since served as one of the honorary presidents of the organization, will be the…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

On behalf of Jen-yen Chen, IMS Directorium Consultant and chair of the IMS Regional Association for East Asia (IMSEA), I would like to bring to your attention the call for papers for IMSEA’s sixth biennial conference to be held in Daegu (KR) from October 21 to 23, 2022.

Please see the attached PDF for more d…[Read more]

Dear all,

the next event in the ‘ICCM Presents’ digital series is ‘Music? Exploration into terminology and its implications’.

Thursday 6th May 2021 14:00 (BST)/ 15:00 (CEST).

The session will take a deeper look into the most basic word we use to talk about our projects and our practice: ‘music’. We will think about questions like, what is…[Read more]

MSA Sydney Chapter HDR Session: ‘Writing a Thesis’

3–4.30pm, 16 April 2021

The Sydney Chapter of the Musicological Society of Australia invites you to a session about writing a musicology thesis.

The event will be led by Professor Dorottya Fabian and Associate Professor Kathleen Nelson.

If you are a postgraduate music student then this is fo…[Read more]

The American Brahms Society is seeking applications for its Karl Geiringer Scholarship in Brahms Studies, from students in the final stages of preparing a doctoral dissertation written in English. Work relating to Brahms should form a significant component of the dissertation, but it need not be the exclusive or even primary focus. The society…[Read more]

Dear all,

On behalf of IMS member Javier Marín-López, I would like to bring to your attention the call for papers for the III MUSAM Conference, IBEROAMERICAN MUSICS: PATHS, NETWORKS AND CIRCUITS

Please see the attached PDFs (CfP in four languages) for more details.

Cheers, Fred

Call for papers:

The Musicological Society of Australia’s annual conference will be hosted by the University of New South Wales. The conference will be online, from 9–11 December.

The conference organizing committee invites proposals for papers, presentations, panels and themed sessions on any topic of music research.

• Formal conference pap…

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Shameless plug for my new book,  Brass Bands in New South Wales: A Social History. This monograph charts the history of wind and brass bands in New South Wales from the start of British colonisation to Federation. 207pp, 19 figures, 50+ tables and Index. $35 plus postage and handling.

The WA Chapter of the MSA has released their newsletter for the first semester of 2021. Feel free to take a look and see what’s going on!

Dear all,

On behalf of IMS member Diego Alonso I bring to your attention the call for papers for the virtual conference “Transnational Perspectives on Music, Sound and (War) Propaganda (1914–1945)” (October 21–23, 2021).

Please see the attached PDF for more details.

Cheers

Fred.

The Conservatorium of Music, University of Western Australia, is seeking to appoint a Collections Coordinator for the Callaway Centre Archives.

About the Role:

The appointee will take a lead role in a significant archive and research centre that traverses the areas of music, history and anthropology. You will source external funding to preserve…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

On behalf of Emile Wennekes, chair of the IMS Study Group “Music and Media,” I would like to bring to your attention the call for papers for the conference “Pre-Existing Music in Screen Media: Problems, Questions, Challenges”. Please see the attached PDF for more details.

Official website of the study group: studygroupmam.…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

The Journal of Music Research Online (JMRO) is a freely accessible, peer-reviewed journal for the publication of scholarly research in music published by The University of Adelaide. It has a distinguished international editorial board, a broad scope of music research and only publishes research which is of the highest…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

On behalf of the IMS Regional Association for East Asia (IMSEA) I would like to bring to your attention the call for papers for the IMSEA Virtual Conference “The Musicological Discipline in East Asia: Practices, Trends, Topics,” which will be held from October 23 to 24, 2021.

The abstract submission deadline is May 15,…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

On behalf of IMS member Amanda Hsieh I would like to bring to your attention the call for papers for the conference “Global Musicology—Global Music History,” which will be held online from January 25 to 27, 2022. The submission deadline for individual papers, forums, roundtables, and workshops is July 1, 2021.…[Read more]

Dear all

News from the International Centre for Community Music (http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/iccm):

The recording of the recent ICCM Conversations: Group Singing as Healthy Public with Dave Camlin, Helena Daffern and Katherine Zeserson is now available via the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNadYhQOTi0

The next ICCM Conversations…[Read more]

Dear MSA members,

CONTEXT: Journal of Music Research is pleased to announce the release of Issue 46, available online, along with all previous issues, at https://contextjournal.music.unimelb.edu.au/no-46-2020/

Articles:
John Whiteoak. Investigating ‘Improvisatory Music’ in Australia before Jazz through the Trove Digitised Australian New…[Read more]

A gentle reminder that the deadline for proposals for the AJIRN 2021 conference “Accessing Jazz and Improvised Music” is 7 February. You can find out more information about the conference and how to submit a proposal here: https://www.sydney.edu.au/music/our-research/research-events/accessing-jazz-and-improvised-music.html

Dear MSA Members,

A reminder that the conference Music in the Pacific World: Change and Exchange Through Sound and Memory is coming up in October 2021 and abstracts are due by 15 February… http://www.gim.ntu.edu.tw/ims-study-group-ghm2021/