[csaa-forum] CFP: IASPM-ANZ Conference 2007 Dunedin, NZ

[Shelley Brunt]

[apologies for cross-posting]


CFP: IASPM-ANZ Conference 2007
The Australia / New Zealand branch of the International Association for the 
Study of Popular Music

"Music on the Edge"
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Friday 30 November to Sunday 2 December


Call For Papers
The 2007 annual conference of IASPM-ANZ will be held at the University of 
Otago in Dunedin from November 30 to December 2.  This will be the first 
time that the IASPM-ANZ conference has been hosted by a South Island 
institution.  The title Music on the Edge reflects Dunedin’s geographic 
isolation from other Australasian centres of cultural influence, but also 
the culture of alternative music that has long predominated in the local 
music scene.  As a guide to the scope of this conference, four thematic 
areas are outlined below.

Abstracts for paper presentations are now invited from researchers with an 
interest in popular music regardless of disciplinary orientation.  All 
papers detailing new and established research in the field will be 
considered, though preference may be given to papers that demonstrate clear 
engagement with one or more of the conference themes.  Papers with a 
theoretical orientation are particularly encouraged, as are submissions from 
postgraduate students.

Special Events
The 2007 conference will be an opportunity to showcase Dunedin’s 
contemporary music scene through performances for the conference delegates 
and general public.  It also heralds the return of the IASPM-ANZ ‘jam 
night’, with a house band and some instruments (drums and keyboards) 
provided by the University of Otago Music Department.  Delegates are 
encouraged to bring their instruments along (where practicable) for an 
inclusive IASPM jam.

Conference Themes

1. The edge of discipline(s)
This theme proposes an investigation of the place of popular music in 
academic discourse.  Is popular music innately inter-disciplinary?  What 
forces now influence our understandings of popular? The first 25 years of 
popular music studies are clearly mapped out, but what directions lie ahead? 
  Is Australasia ready for a home-grown theory and method, or does this 
already exist?  This theme also invites papers that deal with the analysis 
of popular music in other contexts (literature, art, iconography, 
psychology, history, politics, etc).

2. The edge of popular
There is now an abundance of texts providing clear guidelines for 
researching the popular, but what about the music that is at the edge of 
popular: the up-and-coming, the formerly popular (but now very uncool), the 
comeback, the kitsch, one hit wonders, the resolutely independent, the ones 
that almost made it, or the ones that are so bad as to become popular?  
Papers concerning bad music and utterly unpopular music are invited, as well 
as papers dealing with the embedded characteristics, structural analyses or 
aesthetic critiques evoked by this theme.

3. The edges of society
A lot of significant music is culturally, geographically, and socially 
isolated.  This theme invites papers dealing with music that is, by design, 
accident or convention, at the edges of the mainstream. Topics may include 
music that is criminal, dangerous, or deviant; marginal, isolated, 
separatist, resistant, alternative, independent, or underground.

4. The cutting edge
This theme invites research that investigates new music or sound technology, 
innovative new research, and research that challenges established 
scholarship.


Abstract Submission
Abstracts should be submitted as an email attachment (Word document, 12pt 
Times New Roman font) to the conference convenor: 
dan.bendrups at stonebow.otago.ac.nz, by 31 March 2007. Please use your surname 
as the document title, as in Bendrups.doc. Delegates requiring an extension 
of this deadline should indicate this in an email to the above address. The 
abstracts will be reviewed by an IASPM-ANZ committee and successful 
applicants advised promptly by email.

Please include (in this order):
-Name of author(s) (as you would like it to appear in the programme)
-Institution or affiliation
-Contact phone numbers
-Email
-Title of paper
-Abstract (200-300 words)
-Consideration for 2007 IASPM-ANZ postgraduate prize? (Yes/No)

Registration and Membership
Information on registration, accommodation and additional activities will be 
provided by email and posted on the IASPM-ANZ website following the abstract 
review process.  All presenters are required to be financial members of 
IASPM.  Membership information can be found at the IASPM-ANZ webpage: 
www.iaspm.org.au, and will also be provided at the time of conference 
registration.  For further membership information, please contact IASPM-ANZ 
treasurer John Scannell (details below).

Conference Proceedings
IASPM-ANZ endeavours to publish a peer-reviewed proceedings for each annual 
conference.  In 2007, it is proposed that a selection of thematically cogent 
papers (provisional volume title ‘Music on the Edge’) be submitted for 
rigorous peer review with the aim of attracting an independent publisher.  
Delegates wishing to submit their papers for review should provide a copy in 
electronic format (Word document) and hard copy to Dan Bendrups (details 
below) by 30 November 2007.  Please follow the stylistic conventions for 
Perfect Beat, and observe a maximum 4,000-word limit.

Other Information
Each year, IASPM-ANZ awards one postgraduate presenter with the IASPM-ANZ 
Postgraduate Prize for the best paper. The $100 AUD prize is determined by 
an independent panel of established members. To be considered for this 
prize, you must be currently enrolled as a postgraduate student. Please 
indicate your interest when submitting your abstract.

For any queries regarding the conference please contact Dan Bendrups at the 
University of Otago:

	Department of Music
	University of Otago
	PO Box 56, Dunedin
	New Zealand
	Ph: +64 3 479 4025
	Fax: +64 3 479 8885
	Email: dan.bendrups at stonebow.otago.ac.nz

For information on:

	IASPM: www.iaspm.net
	IASPM-ANZ: www.iaspm.org.au
	IASPM membership: John Scannell (Treasurer), email: iaspm at ihug.com.au
	General info: Shelley Brunt (Secretary), email: 
shelley.brunt at alumni.adelaide.edu.au


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Dr. Shelley Brunt
IASPM-ANZ Secretary, www.iaspm.org.au
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Australia/New 
Zealand Branch
Snaps: www.flickr.com/photos/shelleybrunt/

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