In the past, Stan Hawkins has produced worthwhile work for researchers in popular music interested in gender, masculinities and the singing voice, particularly in the
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Kelly Best, a PhD candidate at Memorial University offers her reflections on the 2010 meeting of the IASPM Canada chapter at the University of Regina’s
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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
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Hi, you’ve probably already noticed my name around here. I was recently tasked with revamping and improving on the IASPM Canada website and communication strategy. It has
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Restless Giant provides a fascinating account of the career of Jean Aberbach, legendary founder of one of music history’s most powerful music publishing companies: Hill and Range Songs. During the 1940s and 1950s music publishers, rather than artists and record companies, controlled the American hit-making machine.