In the context of the new 1-year MA program Popular Music, Sound and Media Cultures the University of Groningen (Dept. for Arts, Culture and Media) has a job opening for an Assistant Professor (UD) in Popular Music (full-time). Application deadline is April 5, 2021.
On 14 May 2021, we will hold our sixth annual student conference on music research for IASPM Benelux. This one-day online event will offer a series of panels led and presented by students at all levels of their academic careers. The keynote lecture for this year's conference will be given by Dr Kyra Gaunt (University of Albany) and is sponsored and organized by the Music Matters at University of Groningen series. At the end of the day, we will also announce the winners of the BA and MA Popular Music Thesis Prize 2020, organized and presented by IASPM Benelux and VNPF.
The second IASPM Benelux Pop Talks will take place online on Wednesday, January 27th from 17:00-19:00 (CET). It is organized in collaboration with Music Matters in Groningen and will be a double book launch event celebrating the release in 2020 of Remixing European Jazz Culture by former IASPM Benelux chair and Popular Music Studies professor at University of Groningen, Dr. Kristin McGee, and Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing by current IASPM Benelux secretary and Popular Music Studies professor at the University of Groningen, Dr. Chris Tonelli.
Over the last 20 years, popular music has featured more prominently in cinemas, notably in the form of music biopics that dramatise the lives and careers of popular musicians across the generic spectrum: from rock and pop to country folk, blues, soul or rhythm and blues. A cursory glance at such biopics as Blinded by the Light (2019), Rocketman (2019), or Ray (2004) testifies to the tonal breadth and vitality of this syncretic genre.
What?: IASPM Benelux Pop Talks 1: (Re-)Connecting Popular Music Studies in Times of Crises
When?: 9 December 2020, 17:00–19:00 (CET)
Where?: online (via Zoom)
How?: please register before 4 December 2020 with Oliver Seibt (F.O.Seibt@uva.nl)
The IASPM Benelux and the Vereniging Nederlandse Pop Podia and Festivals (VNPF) invites student applicants to apply for the Bachelors and Masters Popular Music Thesis Prize. This prize honors outstanding research by students (active in a Dutch university) writing about popular music. The prize is to award the best-researched and best-written BA and MA thesis on some subject related to popular music.
The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic has had a strong impact on the sound of the places we live in, particularly as a consequence of the measures taken to stem the contagion. This conference aims to be a forum for sharing perspectives about sound in the time of pandemic, the modifications of sonic environments and the transformations in sound production/listening behaviors, not only in the musical field, but generally speaking in all human practices which are strongly characterized by sound.
The Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA) is organizing a free seminars on the topic of Hop-hop and Dutch identity on 12th of October, 19:30 in Amsterdam! Details and information about registration to be found here.
We are excited to share the 2020 newsletter with all members!
We want to begin this 2020 edition by introducing ourselves as the new executive board of the IASPM Benelux branch. On September 1st, 2019, we took over the responsibilities of the former board. We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our previous chair Kristin McGee, former general secretary Koos Zwaan, previous webmaster Pedro de Bruyckere, and former member-at-large Tom ter Bogt for their excellent work during the past years.
Applications are invited for a Professor (Lector) of Innovation in the International Music Industry within the Faculty of Creative Business at Inholland University of Applied Sciences, to lead our research into music production, music business (management, live events, branding, online and offline communities) and related technological innovations.
When we launched our CfP back in 2019, the world was a different place. 2020 is not what many of us hoped it would be, the global pandemic being one of the factors that impact us both as individuals and as a society. As you know, due to Corona countermeasures, we were forced to postpone the IASPM Benelux conference “RE-peat, please!,“ to be held in Antwerp in May 2020, to October 2020. Alas, also this cannot be…
IASPM Benelux conference (May, Antwerp) postponed! it is with deep regret that we announce that we have to postpone our IASPM Benelux conference. During the past week, the situation in Belgium has intensified, and yesterday, the Belgian government took a series of far-reaching measures in an effort to dam the further spread of the new Corona virus Covid-19.
We are pleased to announce the full abstracts of the presentations of our keynote speakers for the 2020 conference. On Friday 15 May from 14:00 to 15:00, Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt from the Universität Hildesheim in Germany will give a talk entitled The name ‘Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt’ is mentioned in a paper uploaded to Academia by a well-known author: Funky reflections on popular music studies’ most relevant ‘RE-‘: …
In issue 2 of volume 9 of the IASPM Journal (2019), our board member Melanie wrote a status quo (vadis) report on our branch. Using information gathered from past and current board members, she covers not only much of our history, but also the “current state of popular music studies and research in the Netherlands and Flanders as well as (outlining) some of its future challenges”
According to the online Cambridge Dictionary, the prefix ‘re-’ stands for “do again” or “returning something to its original state”. These two letters can be used in various combinations, many of which relate to core issues of pop, rock, jazz, hip-hop, dance, and many other genres. Consider the centrality of the record, a technological tool that allows reproduction, recreation, and ultimately re-evaluation.
IASPM Benelux are pleased to announce this year’s winners for the annual IASPM Benelux VNPF Popular Music Thesis Prize. This year’s competition was adjudicated by three jury members: Dr. Leonieke Bolderman of the University of Groningen, music industry professional Marjan Wynia, and Dr. Matthias Heyman of the University of Antwerp. The winners were chosen according to the criteria of relevance and innovation of thesis topic, quality of research, argumentation, and the overall writing style and elegance of the thesis.
