Call for papers (IASPM-ANZ) 2020 in Sydney

Popular Music Scales

Annual IASPM-ANZ conference hosted by UTS University, Sydney (NSW).

The 2020 conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Australia and New Zealand branch (IASPM-ANZ) will consider scales of popular music from a number of possible perspectives and with a variety of possible viewpoints. We invite papers and panel proposals that consider scales in whichever way is seen as most pertinent, but could include:

• How popular music is scaled (including audiences and artists)

• Whether social class has an impact on the types of music created and consumed

• How the way we teach (in class and in class rooms) effects how we consider popular music and its value

• Whether certain genres of popular music are associated with specific social classes and scales (i.e., punk and the working class)

• How popular music artists navigate their way through classed structures – are there now less opportunities for working-class artists to break through the class ceiling?

• Whether specific classifications point to hierarchies – are certain genres of popular music considered more ‘worthy’ than others?

Popular music scholars are invited to submit abstracts and panel proposals.

The deadline for submissions is March 2nd 2020.

More details on the official page: https://www.uts.edu.au/future-students/communication/2020-international-association-study-popular-music-anz-conference-1