Scholarship Opp: MMus Scholarship in Composition or Musicology (Liverpool)

MMUS SCHOLARSHIP IN COMPOSITION OR MUSICOLOGY
SCHOOL OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
DEADLINE: 4 MAY 2010

The School of Music, University of Liverpool, welcomes applicants for a funded MMus in the fields of Composition or Musicology. The award will total £8000. Fees will be taken from this and the rest may be used as maintenance (as a guide, fees for the MMus 09-10 were £3,390).

The MMus aims to provide advanced academic and/or professional training in Music and Musicology. It exists in three distinct tracks, identified as Musicology, Composition and Performance. Our intention is that the student should reach a professional level of expertise in one of these tracks, as the main area of study, by the end of the course.

Musicology modules are research-led and benefit from the expertise of our newly-appointed Professor Michael Spitzer as well as Professor Anahid Kassabian, Dr. Holly Rogers, Dr. Giles Hooper and Dr. Freya Jarman. Composition modules are led by Mr. James Wishart and Mr. Matthew Fairclough.

APPLICATION:
You should apply to the School of Music for admission onto your chosen MMus pathway using the online application form. Your transcripts and references will be included in this. In addition, you must indicate your interest in the scholarship and attach a Case for Support (1000 words).

The deadline for applications is 4 May.

Interviews will be held during the week beginning 24 May.

Please note, you are advised to submit your admission application by mid-April to ensure that your application is received by the school office well in advance of the deadline.

Application forms are available by e-mailing the School’s Postgraduate Studies
Administrator at Filomena.Saltao [at] liverpool.ac.uk
Or online
http://www.liv.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught_courses/music_mmus.htm

For further information or informal enquiries about the scholarship, please
contact the Director of the MMus, Dr. Holly Rogers: holly.rogers [at]liverpool.ac.uk

CFP: American Independent Cinema: Past, Present, and Future (Liverpool)

AMERICAN INDEPENDENT CINEMA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
LIVERPOOL, UK
8 - 10 MAY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

An international conference co-organised by Claire Molloy (Liverpool John Moores University) and Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool).

This is an updated call for papers. We are delighted to announce that the confirmed keynote speakers at this conference will be: Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University), Geoff King (Brunel University), Peter Kramer (University of East Anglia), Steve Neale (University of Exeter) Janet Staiger (University of Texas at Austin).

In recent years the field of American independent cinema has enjoyed particular critical attention. The publication of a number of studies on the subject and the development of courses that examine American independent cinema as a separate object of study from mainstream Hollywood cinema has demonstrated that American independent cinema is a distinct discursive category and therefore deserves to be explored in depth.

Despite the recent critical activity, however, there is still very little actual research undertaken in the field. To this day, most of the work on American independent cinema has focused on the period ranging from the 1960s to contemporary times while the lion's share of the critics' attention has gone to a relatively small number of canonical independent filmmakers or to certain paradigmatic independent films. Although the establishment of canons and paradigms in independent cinema has been extremely useful, especially because it identified the field as worthy of scholarly attention, it also delimited the field substantially.

This conference wants to rethink American cinema through the concept of 'independence' and the range of definitions that such a term encompasses. As such, this conference hopes to attract research in the field that extends far beyond conventional critical approaches that tend to focus on key filmmakers, often starting from Cassavetes and moving to more recent examples, and instead look at American cinema in general with a view of questioning particular practices while also offering a number of case studies from various historical moments. Topics might include but are certainly not limited to:

* cinema at Poverty Row
* independent filmmaking within the "confines" of the studio system
* exploitation filmmaking
* ethnic filmmaking
* independent producers/distributors
* classics divisions vs contemporary independents
* the impact of technological change on independent filmmaking
* independent film financing, marketing, advertising and publicity
* institutionalising independence

Whilst we will consider papers that deal with any aspect of independence, we particularly welcome papers that seek to revise existing histories of American cinema, especially by re-opening cases of films, filmmakers and companies that hitherto have been considered as part of an increasingly loosely defined mainstream Hollywood. One of the key aims of this conference is to chart the past, present and future modes of film practice in the independent sector and to account for the plurality of forms and guises in which independent filmmaking has manifested in the United States. In this respect we hope the conference will facilitate a much needed re-evaluation of American cinema under the rubric of independence.

Please send proposals of up to 300 words to both C.Molloy@ljmu.ac.uk and Y.Tzioumakis@liverpool.ac.uk

Deadline for submission of proposals is Friday 12 December 2008.

Analysing the Musically Sensuous (Study Day) (Liverpool)

ANALYSING THE MUSICALLY SENSUOUS
SCHOOL OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2008

A Study Day sponsored by the Society for Music Analysis and the University of Liverpool, including a keynote address by Steve Goodman.

A full programme for this one-day conference has just been announced and is
available at: http://www.sma.ac.uk/events/Autumn2008_StudyDay_prog.pdf

The day is free to current, paid-up members of the Society for Music Analysis, and staff and students of the University of Liverpool. For all others who wish to attend the cost will be:
£10 for students
£20 for non-students

This includes SMA membership until the end of 2009.

Buffet lunch is included for all delegates who confirm their attendance in advance (please mention any dietary requirements when booking).

To confirm your attendance or request further information please email Mirjam Jooss: mirjamjooss@hotmail.com

A limited number of bursaries are available to assist with travel expenses; please see http://www.sma.ac.uk/travel.htm for more details