Musical Nationbuilding and Cultural Exchange in Interwar France and Europe
2-3 August 2024, Melbourne
 

The interwar period in both Europe and Australia was a fascinating and crucial time for the re-building and reconsideration of national identity. Reeling from the trauma of the Great War, negotiating postwar transitions, surviving the…[Read more]

For those wanting to diversify their music research, teaching, and recital programmes, do go and check out the MSA’s new Diversity Resource List. It includes sample syllabi, links to databases, co-design protocols, and repertoire lists arranged by instrument, among other useful resources.

Many thanks to all who have contributed so far!

If…[Read more]

We are pleased to announce the program of the 2023 Grainger Symposium ‘New Media and Old Archives – Exploring Twentieth-Century Music, Media and Technology’ at the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne on 8 December 2023.

Details of the program and registration (for both online and in-person participation) are available here: https://grainger.u…[Read more]

Proposals are invited for next year’s symposium Oceanic Networks of Music and Dance: Performing Continuities, Regeneration and Resonances Across Cultures hosted by the Study Group on Music and Dance of Oceania, an association of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance. This 2-day symposium will coincide with the 13th Festival…[Read more]

The distinguished historian Ann Curthoys will present the final Musicology colloquium for 2023.

“Speaking songs”: Paul Robeson on speech, song, music, politics, and universal humanity while touring Australia in 1960.

In the 1930s and 1940s Paul Robeson was probably the most famous African American in the world, known for his singing, his sta…[Read more]

The Victoria Chapter of the MSA will be holding its 2023 Chapter conference and AGM this Friday, 27th October at Trinity College. Please see attached the conference schedule for additional information on the time and location, and for the speakers’ abstracts. The conference is free and open to the public; voting at the AGM is limited to chapter…[Read more]

MSA members are warmly invited to attend a symposium on

Picasso and Musical Modernity (c.1900-1940) / Picasso y el Modernismo Musical (c.1900-1940), hosted by the 15th Symposium FIMTE and the University of Melbourne, and in hybrid format (in person and online)

• 12-14 October 2023
• Download the conference program HERE (please note that sessions…

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Hello,

There were suddenly many non-MSA-related posts in the MSA forum in the last few days. Could admins please consider removing those posts, and potentially blocking the repeat offenders from posting in the forum? I’ve been receiving a lot of email notifications on those non-MSA-related posts, which has been a bit annoying. Thanks for the…[Read more]

Dear all,

Those not attending the MSA National Conference in Adelaide this year may find this Melbourne event to be of interest:

Registration for ‘Inventing the Human’ (29 Nov – 2 Dec) is now open.

This exciting 4-day event will include provocative keynote speeches, an exhibition, roundtable discussions and more than 80 papers contributed by sc…[Read more]

The next speakers in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Musicology Colloquium Series will be Elizabeth Kertesz and Michael Christoferidis of the University of Melbourne.

‘Revolutionary’ Adaptations of Bizet’s Carmen Between the Two World Wars By the early 20th century Georges Bizet’s Carmen had already been part of a long history of adaptation an…[Read more]

Book Talk: Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America 

When: Wednesday 13 September at 6pm

Where: Prudence Myer Studio – Level Five, The Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street Southbank, VIC 3006 and streaming online

Please join us to launch Nick Tochka’s Rocking in the Free World: Popular Mus…[Read more]

The latest issue (104.3) of Music & Letters is now available! (https://academic.oup.com/ml/issue)

Articles:

Ellie Chan, ‘The Etymology of the “English” Cadence’

Cheryll Duncan, ‘The law and the profits: Lewis Granom and the royal licence as a form of music copyright protection’

Sadie Menicanin, ‘The Garden as Interior: Reading…[Read more]

CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED to 15 September 2023

Call for Papers:

As part of the Grainger Museum at the University of Melbourne’s new research programme, this symposium explores the theme of music history, composition, and performance in the context of innovation, exploration and engagement with of new media and new technologies. It takes a broad d…[Read more]

The schedule of papers for Semester 2, 2023 is as follows (all on zoom):

23 August – Neal Peres da Costa

6 September – Alan Maddox
“Performing emotion in Antonio Caldara’s (1670-1736) opera recitatives”

20 September – Liz Kertesz & Michael Christoferidis
“‘Revolutionary’ Adaptations of Bizet’s Carmen Between the Two World Wars”

4 October –…[Read more]

Calling for expressions of interest in a special issue of Humanities on Music and the Written Word

Words and song have long been thought to spring from the same expressive impulse. In Disgrace, JM Coetzee writes that “the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty…[Read more]