Music and Music History

Following up a very successful event last year, we would like to continue our interdisciplinary conversation about music performance in literature and its various representations in textual forms in poetry and prose. The proposed panel will analyze the relationship of music and music performance and the text within various national literatures, from 19th century to present day, by offering an overview of the different methodological approaches to this topic and investigating the role of music in literature.

Korean boy group BTS are the first ever Korean act to perform at Wembley Stadium as part of their Love Yourself: Speak Yourself world tour. Debuting in 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment, BTS initially struggled to gain recognition in Korea as they didn’t come from one of the big three Korean entertainment companies.

Die Weimar-Stipendien fördern wissenschaftliche Projekte, welche die europäische Kulturgeschichte von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart zum Thema haben und auf die in Weimar vorhandenen Sammlungen zurückgreifen. Die Stipendiatinnen und Stipendiaten können in sämtlichen Einrichtungen der Klassik Stiftung Weimar arbeiten, vornehmlich im Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv, in der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek und in den Museen. Die Stipendiatinnen und Stipendiaten sind zu allen wissenschaftlichen und kulturellen Veranstaltungen der Klassik Stiftung Weimar eingeladen.

Please mark your calendars to attend the twelfth annual Civil War Study Group (CWSG) symposium on Saturday, September 21, 2109. The Study Group will gather on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

The CWSG presents new scholarship in a relaxed, informal, and collegial setting with an emphasis on friendly discussion. This year's theme is "The Common Soldier" in the Civil War. The following historians will present papers:

CFP: Delta State University to host 6th Annual International Conference on the Blues

International Conference on the Blues
October 4, 2019
Delta State University
Cleveland, Mississippi

www.deltastate.edu/blues

Review of proposals will begin June 15, 2019
Deadline: Friday, June 28

Bertolt Brecht was confronted with the alien throughout his life. He was exposed to it everywhere he lived, and in all venues he inhabited, he was as a stranger among strangers. Furthermore, he made the experience of the alien into the linchpin of his entire artistic project. Brecht’s intensive confrontation with the alien is more relevant now than ever in an era when, on a daily basis, fear and hatred of foreigners continue to demonstrate a fundamental inability to live among strangers even (or especially) in a period of increasing globalization and of societies affected by migration.

Call for Chapters: The Road to Independence: the Independent Record Industry in Transition.

Music and Democracy: Beyond Metaphors and Idealisation

20-21 June 2019

Phipps Hall

University of Huddersfield

Convened by Igor Contreras Zubillaga (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Huddersfield) and Robert Adlington (University of Huddersfield)

Keynote speaker: Esteban Buch (EHESS, Paris)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Vol. 13.2: Soundscapes, guest ed. Stacey Jocoy (Extended Deadline: 1 July 2019; published Fall 2020)

Works of anime, manga/manhua, gaming and related forms of popular culture contain, interpret, and are in turn embodied and informed by sound and music. Sound and the audiation of sound is an ever-present aspect of the consumption of media — even the lack of sound creates its own soundscapes.