Michael Ethen

Michael Ethen has written 8 posts for IASPM Canada

Webcast: The Politics of Fair Use

The Politics of Fair Use: A Practical Discussion of Fair Use Principles Using Recent Examples of Popular Music in Political Campaigns American Bar Association live teleconference and audio webcast. Nov 17, 2010 12:30-1:30 p.m. Eastern Time https://www.abanet.org/aba_timssnet/meetings/tnt_meetings.cfm?action=long&primary_id=CET0STB&webtextid=54330&Subsystem=MTG&related_prod_flag=0

CFP: Computer Games and Music (deadline: September 1st)

Here’s a CFP for an online journal: Dear colleagues, With its first themed issue devoted to the topic “Computer Games and Music”, the new peer-reviewed online journal “Act — Zeitschrift für Musik & Performance” would like to stimulate considerations of the field from the perspectives of musicology, theatre studies, media studies and related disciplines in [...]

CFP: IASPM-US

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Chapter (IASPM-US) will hold its annual conference Mar. 9-13, 2011 in Cincinnati, OH, in a joint meeting with the Society for American Music.  This year’s conference title is “Time Keeps on Slipping:  Popular Music Histories.”  We welcome proposals concerning all facets of popular music in [...]

The Last Professors

As an undergraduate, how many of your classes were taught by professors, how many by graduate students, and how many by adjunct lecturers? The answer partly depends on your alma mater and its location along a continuum of resources. For example, community college courses are more likely to be taught by adjuncts than by full [...]

In Praise of Fish

I’ve just finished a short book by Stanley Fish worth recommending to everyone aspiring to or currently living an academic life. Save the World on Your Own Time (OUP, 2008) is Fish’s paean to the academy, written from a perspective of forty years’ academic experience, including a five year stint as Dean of the College [...]

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