A conference to mark the completion of an AHRC funded project: ‘The Promotion of Live Music in the UK, An Historical, Cultural and Institutional Analysis’

Emerging at the confluence of diverse streams, the genre we know as jazz was made predominantly by African-Americans for a good deal of its history. Indeed, African-American musicians and critics have often claimed the form as their own, part of their people’s struggle to assert their humanity in the face of a racialised structure of power which would deny it.

Popular music is a dynamic cultural force. The acts of listening, playing, dancing, composing and recording are undertaken in a constant state of flux, further complicated by flows of space and time. This conference invites papers that consider popular music as a powerful social agent.

To inaugurate its new format, the review Filigrane. Musique, esthétique, sciences, société is launching a call for papers about Deleuze, the philosopher who has influenced so many musicians and musicologists over the last thirty years.

The Shakespeare and Popular Music Conference and Colloquium, in conjunction with the University of Guelph’s School of English and Theatre Studies, invites proposals for papers to be presented at our first annual interdisciplinary conference in Guelph. This year’s colloquium will take place on September 6, 2010, as part of the University of Guelph’s Orientation Week activities, and will bring together a wide range of scholars, performance artists, and members of the general public.