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Introducing Robin Attas
I wanted to get my thoughts on Regina out while they were fresh; now I’ll go back and introduce myself. I’m a Ph.D. candidate in music theory at the University of British Columbia, working on a dissertation that examines meter in groove-based popular music, using a metric theory (that of Christopher Hasty) that focuses on [...]
Regina: Super condensed, extra fortified
Since I had a commitment back in Vancouver on Saturday, and was involved in the Canadian University Music Society (CUMS) conference on Friday, I had exactly one day to enjoy the IASPM/CSTM conference this year in Regina. But what an amazing day!! I began with “Cultural Renewal & Community Responsibility: Three Case Studies of Aboriginal [...]
Tension and Resistance – A Review of Regina 2010
The joint conference of the Canadian branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and the Canadian Society for Traditional Music took place from June 3rd to 6th at the University of Regina. Entitled “Spaces of Violence, Sites of Resistance: Music, Media & Performance,” the conference showcased the work of both established [...]
Introduction, Jeremy Morris
Hello IASPM-CA crew. Jeremy Morris here, hoping to keep the ball that Paul and Micheal so eloquently started rolling. I’m a PhD candidate at the University of McGill in Communication Studies. If all goes well, I should be able to drop the candidate part of that title by the end of the summer. My research [...]
Inertia, or “The Conference is Over . . . What Now?”
It’s like Newton said: a body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by another force. At the close of each annual IASPM-Canada conference, we return home faced with the challenge of maintaining the excitement and perpetuating the scholarly inertia it generates. We return to the busy schedules we placed on hold, [...]
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