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

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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

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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

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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

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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

2012 Executive Election Results

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Félicitations à Jacqueline Warwick de l’Université Dalhousie, la nouvelle présidente d’IASPM-Canada; à Johanne Melançon de l’Université Laurentienne, la nouvelle coordonnatrice des comités des prix; et à Owen Chapman de l’Université Concordia, le nouveau coordonnateur aux communications!

Warwick, Melançon et Chapman ont été les seuls candidats pour leurs postes respectifs, alors ils ont été élus par acclamation, selon les règlements d’IASPM-Canada en vigueur.

Merci aux candidats d’avoir accepté leur nomination!

Cordialement,

Christina Baade et Eric Smialek

Coordonnateurs aux élections

IASPM-Canada

Congratulations to Jacqueline Warwick of Dalhousie University, the new IASPM-CA President; to Johanne Melançon of Université Laurentienne, the new IASPM-CA Awards Committees Coordinator; and to Owen Chapman of Concordia University, the new IASPM-CA Communications Coordinator!

Warwick, Melançon, and Chapman were the only nominees for their respective positions, so they are elected by acclamation, in accordance with IASPM-CA bylaws.

Thank you to all of the candidates for allowing your names to stand!

Best wishes,

Christina Baade and Eric Smialek

Elections coordinators

IASPM-CA