CFP (reminder): Analyzing Popular Music, Univ. of Liverpool, July 2013

Call for Papers Reminder: International Conference on Analyzing Popular Music
University of Liverpool, 2-4 July 2013, http://www.popmac.org.uk
CFP Deadline: 28 Feb 2013

Organised by the Society for Music Analysis in association with the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research

The deadline for submission is 28th February, 2013. The webpage for abstract submission is http://www.popmac.org.uk/cfp.htm

Please find below updated information regarding the Adam Krims Prize and the SEMPRE Bursary.

Casting its net as broadly as possible across all genres and styles of rock and pop, including jazz and folk, the conference invites papers in topics including but not limited to:

Modal harmony
Sound design
Narrative
Metre and groove
Voice and vocality
Timbre and texture
Ecological perception
Gesture and embodiment
Theoretical models of analysis
Performance and improvisation
Listening strategies and subject positions
Value, signification, and pedagogy of analysis
Analysis within industry and creative practice
Computational, Neo-Riemannian and spectrum/sonic analysis
Languages and notations of analysis, from the technical to the metaphorical

Keynote speakers: Anne Danielsen (University of Oslo), Walter Everett (University of Michigan) and Allan Moore (University of Surrey).

Committee: Michael Spitzer (Chairman), Nicola Dibben, Dai Griffiths, Tim Hughes, Freya Jarman, Nick Reyland, Kenneth Smith and Rob Strachan.

Prize:

In honour and memory of Adam Krims, to whom this conference is dedicated, we are delighted to announce that, thanks to a generous contribution from Adam's estate, a prize of £500 will go to the most outstanding presentation from a student or early career researcher.

Bursary:

SEMPRE (The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research) are generously supporting the conference by offering a number of bursaries to cover travel, subsistence, and conference fees. A downloadable form is available in http://www.popmac.org.uk/accommodation.htm. Please return it by email to events at sma.ac.uk no later than 15th May.  Your abstract should be submitted separately by 28th February, 2013.