DEADLINE EXTENDED: Vacancy for Reviews Editor for both the Journal of the Royal Musical Association and Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle (new deadline of Monday 6 October)
www.rma.ac.uk/2025/07/17/r...

Job opportunity at the University of Huddersfield providing administrative support to the Leverhulme-funded Amplification Project. Apply by 1st October:

Call for book proposals!

Are you passionate about punk? 🤘
Do you have an idea for a book? 📖
Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶
More details below 👇 #booksky #punk

Punk & Post-Punk 14.2 is out now! 🤘🎵

Including ‘‘Punk Rock Cliché’: The proverbial NOFX’ by Luis J. Tosina Fernández

Access the issue via discover 👉 intellectdiscover.co...

We're excited for our annual conference in a few days' time, this year hosted by the University of Southampton! Hope to see lots of you there.
www.southampton.ac.uk/music/RMAcon...

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Taylor Swift

What do the many creative languages of Swift's work reveal about identity, power, and society?

Submit a brief CV and 350–500 word abstract for a feature-length research article by 1 Oct.

More information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Well done to all the speakers at our Postgraduate Research Conference, held last Friday at Leeds on the theme of 'music and crisis'. Thank you especially to the organising team and volunteers. We heard excellent talks on topics from DIY internet radio to the challenges faced by women tour managers.

For in person attendance, please register here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

If you wish to attend online, sign up here: city-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Full announcement: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

Understanding REF Impact in Music: Half Day Workshop, 19 Nov 2025

- Online and at City St George’s, University of London
- Free, travel bursaries available for PGRs & ECRs
- Topics will include working with non-academic partners; writing an impact case study; assessment of impact in REF.

wildpop conference call for proposals: "underground, DIY & fringe cultures have the grassroots spontaneous intensity that challenge corporate dominance. Don’t they?"

6-8 November 2025, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Submit to [email protected] by 31 Aug.

iaspm.org.uk/wildpop-2025/

Currently in our summer sale 🌞

A candid reevaluation of dance music as an everyday culture that reproduces social inequalities.

Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/dance-music-...

Deadline coming up soon for the RMA 150th Anniversary Fellowships! www.rma.ac.uk/2025/06/10/t...

Are you an early career researcher looking to get published?

Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists.

Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn

Delighted to announce that the 14th Ludomusicology conference kicks off this Thursday in London and in-person tickets are sold out! Looking forward to seeing you either on site or online (online tickets still available!). #gameaudio #vgm
Check it out: www.ludomusicology.org/2025/05/08/l...

The House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport select committee is inviting music fans to help shape the future of the UK’s grassroots live and electronic music scenes. Click the link for more information and scan the QR code to find out how you can make your voice heard.
tinyurl.com/bd8xsw6r

Do you work in music/music education in Wales? We want you to shape our 'Manifesto for Music – Wales’. Our first free panels will be on U-18 and post-18 music education. Register for the U-18 event here lu.ma/fba0yacn and the post-18 event here lu.ma/e1fvef5j

The Department of Music at the University of Southampton is delighted to release our preliminary programme and registration, which can be found on the official conference website: www.southampton.ac.uk/music/RMAcon...

Applying for an RMA Small Research Grant, 7 July - Excellent funding for students, or scholars without institutional support. Catherine Tackley & Katherine Williams will explain the purpose & evaluation process and how to finesse an application, followed by Q&A. Register: forms.gle/cb5QUMAhogp6...

The joint British Forum for Ethnomusicology & RMA conference for Research Students will be in-person next year, at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire 6–8 Jan 2026. Keynote by Dr Owen Coggins. Submit by 18 Sep. www.bfe.org.uk/conf/bfe-rma...

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The full programme for the IASPM 2025 international conference "Recording Popular Music" in Paris, 7-11 July is now online: iaspmbfe.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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