Annamaria Dall’Anese – PhD Anthropology Lloyd Coleman on How He Has Music at His Fingertips Anthropology’s aim is to see the world through the native’s point of view (Malinowski 1961[1922]:25), and intersubjectivity is often the trigger of fruitful ethnographic discoveries, as well as human bonds in generalContinue Reading
Miranda Marcus, UCL Digital Anthropology How do we display data in a way that is meaningful? This is the question that has been posed by Dr Robin Carhart-Harris from the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London, the lead researcher on the recent clinical trials into the effects ofContinue Reading
March 13-16, 2014 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Submission Deadline: Friday, 15 November, 2013 Music flows. Evocative metaphorically while directing our attention to the global circulation of songs, the theme for the 2014 IASPM-US Annual Conference takes its inspiration from the UNC campus-wide Water initiative. Water in its many formsContinue Reading
Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology This project finds us concerned with how home is conceptualized, enacted, and consumed. We are interested in exploring how the US home became an entertainment zone – and an alternative to ‘going out’ – in postwar popular culture. InContinue Reading
The Orchestra of Recycled Instruments, based in a slum built on a landfill in Paraguy is the subject of a forthcoming film…inspirational trailer here…Continue Reading
Fantomton is looking for musicians for a sound-project based on samples taken at the abandoned listening station at Teufelsberg Berlin. The abandoned listening station on the Teufelsberg Berlin has a magical atmosphere. The industrial area with its rusty metal surfaces, broken glass and the unique acoustic in the domes provideContinue Reading
Call for papers: Nostalgias: A special issue of Volume! The French Journal of Popular Music Studies Edited by Hugh Dauncey (Newcastle University) & Christopher Tinker (Heriot-Watt University) Online: http://volume.revues.org/2914 Version française ici : http://volume.revues.org/2912 Volume!, the French peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of popular music – seeks contributions forContinue Reading