PETER NARVAEZ MEMORIAL STUDENT PAPER PRIZE / PRIX PETER-NARVAEZ 2013

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Owen Chapman

PETER NARVAEZ MEMORIAL STUDENT PAPER PRIZE / PRIX PETER-NARVAEZ 2013

Students presenting papers in this year’s IASPM Canada conference are invited to submit their work to be considered for our prize for Best Student Paper, the PETER NARVAEZ MEMORIAL STUDENT PAPER PRIZE 2013. A prize will be awarded for the best paper in French by a student, and also for the best paper in English by a student. Both prizes are $200. The winners will be recognized during the Annual General Meeting at the conference.

Papers should be submitted electronically to jmelancon@laurentian.ca by May 10 2013. Supporting materials such as PowerPoint slides may be included.

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PRIX PETER-NARVAEZ / PETER NARVAEZ MEMORIAL STUDENT PAPER PRIZE 2013

Les étudiants et les étudiantes qui présentent des communications durant le colloque de l’IASPM Canada cette année sont invités à soumettre leur texte au prix pour la meilleure communication étudiante, le PRIX PETER-NARVAEZ 2013. Deux prix seront remis : un pour la meilleure communication en français et un pour la meilleure communication en anglais. Chaque prix a une valeur de 200$. Les noms des lauréats seront annoncés au moment de l’Assemblée générale lors du colloque.

Le texte des communications doivent être soumis électroniquement à jmelancon@laurentienne.ca au plus tard le 10 mai 2013. Les documents d’appui, tels que des diapositives PowerPoint, peuvent être inclus.

IASPM Canada 2013 Conference Forums

Posted on March 25, 2013 by IASPM Canada Admin

At the Music and Labour IASPM Conference 2013 site there are now forums for participants to use. In the interest of conference participants’ privacy, the forums are private. Please register with this site and login to gain access (right sidebar, bottom).

There is a General Discussion forum and a Travel & Accommodation forum. The forums are barely moderated specific questions should be directed to the conference organizers.

Call for Nominations IASPM-Canada Book Prize 2013 – Appel à nomination pour le Prix du livre IASPM-Canada 2013

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Owen Chapman

Call for Nominations IASPM-Canada Book Prize 2013

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music-Canada Branch (IASPM- Canada) requests your nominations for the most distinguished monograph in popular music studies, or with substantial content related to popular music studies, that has been written by a Canadian author, or published by a Canadian-based press, or that deals substantially with Canadian subject matter. Books nominated for the IASPM-Canada Book Prize 2013 must have a 2012 publication date.

Any member in good standing of IASPM-Canada may nominate a book; committee members may nominate books, association members may nominate their own books, and we encourage publishers to suggest books for consideration, but only IASPM-Canada members in good standing may actually offer nominations to the committee.

The deadline for nominations is May 31st, 2013. Nominations should include the author’s name, book title, and publisher’s information. Nominations should be sent electronically to the Awards Committees Coordinator Johanne Melançon (jmelancon@laurentienne.ca). The award committee will announce the winner at the 2014 annual IASPM-Canada meeting.

Appel à nomination pour le Prix du livre IASPM-Canada 2013

Le chapitre canadien de l’Association internationale des études en musique populaire (IASPM-Canada) lance son appel à nominations pour la meilleure monographie portant en tout ou majoritairement sur la musique populaire, ou qui traite de façon importante d’un sujet canadien. L’ouvrage doit avoir été écrit par un auteur canadien ou une auteure canadienne ou avoir été publié par un éditeur basé au Canada. Les ouvrages en nomination pour le Prix du livre IASPM-Canada 2013 doivent avoir été publiés en 2012.

Tous les membres en règles de l’IASPM-Canada, incluant les membres du comité, peuvent mettre en nomination un ouvrage. Les membres de l’association peuvent mettre en nomination leur propre ouvrage. L’association encourage également les éditeurs à suggérer des titres pour considération, mais seuls les membres en règle peuvent proposer des mises en nomination au comité.

La date limite pour les mises en nomination est le 31 mai 2013. Les mises en nomination doivent inclure le nom de l’auteur ou de l’auteure, le titre de l’ouvrage, de même que les informations relatives à l’éditeur. Les mises en nomination doivent être envoyées par courriel à la coordonnatrice des comités des prix, Johanne Melançon (jmelancon@laurentienne.ca). Le comité du prix dévoilement le titre de l’ouvrage gagnant lors de l’assemblée annuelle qui aura lieu dans le cadre du colloque d’IASPM-Canada en 2014.

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IASPM Canada 2013 Conference Information

Posted on March 22, 2013 by IASPM Canada Admin

We are very excited about how the conference is developing, and we are looking forward to welcoming you to Hamilton on 23-26 May!

Funding

First, we submitted the SSHRC Connections grant on 27 February. Thank you to everyone for responding to our follow-up requests for additional information and justification language! The conference grant has changed a great deal this year. Assisted by Craig Jennex and several other grad students involved with the local arrangements committee, Susan Fast and Christina Baade worked very hard to navigate these changes and write the strongest grant possible. If we are funded, we will be able to do a great deal to offset travel and accommodation costs for paper, workshop, and film presenters.

Registration

Second, some information on registration: the registration deadline is 23 April. If you do not register by this date, your name will be removed from the program. Regular registration will be $150 and student registration will be free. Registration will be handled through IASPM-Canada’s Paypal account. To register go here. We also ask that all presenters be members of IASPM-Canada or another national IASPM chapter. To join IASPM-Canada or to renew your membership, please go here. If you are a member of another national chapter, please indicate your membership on the registration form, although we would invite you to consider joining IASPM-Canada as well.

Accommodations

Most of the conference presentations will take place at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Hamilton, which is also walking distance from the off-site conference events, great restaurants, and James Street North, which is the hub of Hamilton’s arts community. We have a great conference rate at the Sheraton Hotel of $109 per night, which will be available until 22 April. To book your room at this rate, go here.

For information on getting to Hamilton, please go here.

Please find a preliminary conference program here. If there are any changes you would like to make to the title or abstract, please send them to the program chair Will Echard william_echard (at) carleton.ca. by 15 April.

We will have digital projectors and speakers available for conference presentations. (Please bring your own laptop.) If you have other audio/visual needs, please send them to Heather Kirby, kirbyhl (at) mcmaster.ca by April 15, and we will do our best to accommodate them.

We are very excited to welcome you to Hamilton!

Best wishes,

Christina, Susan, and Craig

Latest Issue of Wi: Journal of Mobile Media

Posted on March 22, 2013 by IASPM Canada Admin

Sound is motion. As vibration, sound travels through air, water, solid materials, as an affective transfer of energy from molecule to molecule–a moving flow. But let us not prioritize an acoustic or physicalist framework, as though ‘vibration’ were somehow the truest description of sound in its essence. Sounds travel through networks, memories, between people and places, from performers to audiences, through time as much as space, both live and as sonic potential stored in mechanical and electronic recordings, digital files and musical instruments. Sound is constantly on the move, at the same time as it resounds in the singular sonorous moments in which it is heard.

Owen Chapman, Sound Moves: Intersections of popular music studies, mobility studies and soundscape studies

The Mobile Media Lab, Communication Studies, is pleased to announce the publication of Sound Moves: Intersections of popular music studies, mobility studies and soundscape studies, the latest issue of Wi: Journal of Mobile Media edited by Owen Chapman.

Comprised of papers from the 2011 International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Conference on Music and Environment, Sound Moves includes a stellar line-up of local, national and international contributions.

“ECOTONALITY AND LISTENING PRAXIS IN SOUND ECOLOGY, AMBIENCES, AND POPULAR MUSIC”

by Andra McCartney

“RE-SOUNDING PLEASURE IN SOUNDSCAPE STUDIES”

by Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä

“COMMENTED CITY WALKS”

by Jean-Paul Thibaud

“DESCRIBING URBAN AMBIANCES: THE CRESSON RESEARCH LABORATORY”

by David Paquette

“CROWDFUNDING CULTURE”

by Sara Bannerman

“THE PERSON BEHIND THE MUSIC WE ADORE”: ARTISTS, PROFILES, AND THE CIRCULATION OF MUSIC”

by Jeremy Morris

“YOU ARE HERE: BINAURAL AUDIO, MOBILE MEDIA AND THE SONIC EXPLORATION OF URBAN SPACE”

by Lewis Kaye

“ADVOCATING SONIC RESTORATION: LES ONDES MARTENOT IN PRACTICE”

by David Madden

Wi is a peer-reviewed open-access journal, published twice yearly. This issue has been supported by the VPRGS, Aid to Research Related Events and the Concordia University Research Chair, Mobile Media Studies. IASPM was generously supported by SSHRC.