CFP: Music, Indigeneity and Digital Media Symposium (Royal Holloway)

MUSIC, INDIGENEITY & DIGITAL MEDIA SYMPOSIUM

ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

15 - 16 APRIL 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

This symposium will focus on the role of digital media in the musical practices of indigenous peoples and in musical representations of indigeneity. It builds on the expanding scholarship on music and technology, music and the politics of indigeneity, and the impact and role of the Internet in musical and indigenous communities. Key questions that it hopes to address include:

• How significant is digital media to indigenous musical practices?

• How do musicians balance new technologies with traditional practice?

• How do digital media offer musical encounters, negotiations and critiques of (post)modernity?

• Do digital media support or hinder the musical indigenous movement?

Other themes that may be explored include the impact of digital media on:

• representation and self determination through music

• musical constructions of place

• cultural revival and cultural repatriation

• musical production, mediation and consumption

• global musical communities and networks

• ethnographic methods, representing musical practices and ethics

For enquiries about the symposium please contact any of the organisers:

Thomas Hilder. t.r.hilder@rhul.ac.uk

Henry Stobart h.stobart@rhul.ac.uk

Shzr Ee Tan shzree.tan@rhul.ac.uk

Job Posting: Professor of Music (Royal Holloway)

JOB POSTING: PROFESSOR OF MUSIC (MUSICOLOGY)
ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
EGHAM, SURREY TW20 0EX, UK
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

The remuneration for this position will be internationally competitive and reflect the importance of the role.

Ref: Y0108/4164

Applications are invited for the post of Professor of Music, with a specialism or specialisms in any area of Musicology. The post is tenable from 1 Sept 2009 or within a reasonable period thereafter.

You will have a record of academic achievement at the highest level and will be expected to play a leading part in the maintenance and development of the national and international reputation of the Department in the following respects: as a centre for musicological research of the highest calibre, as reflected in its ranking as the leading UK Department of Music in the 2008 RAE; as a centre for postgraduate studies; in its provision of high-quality and innovative undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes and its links with external organisations.

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr James Dack (Head of Department), tel: +44 (0)1784 443532; fax: +44 (0)1784 414490; email: j.dack@rhul.ac.uk

Further details and an application form are available from our website: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Personnel/JobVacancies.htm or by contacting HR at recruitment@rhul.ac.uk or tel: +44 (0)1784 414241. Please quote the reference above.

The closing date for the receipt of applications is midday on 27th March 2009. Interviews are likely to be held during the week commencing 20th April 2009.

Job Posting: Post-Doc Research Associate - Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Performance, Politics, Belonging (Royal Holloway)

JOB POSTING: POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
INDIGENEITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: PERFORMANCE, POLITICS, BELONGING
ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UK

A unique opportunity exists for an outstanding Post-doctoral Research Associate to contribute to a new interdisciplinary research project that will examine how Indigeneity is expressed and understood in our complex, globalising world. With funding of €2.36M over five years from the European Research Council, this frontier research, led by Professor Helen Gilbert at Royal Holloway (University of London), will develop along four broad conceptual themes: ‘Commodity and Spectacle’, ‘Heritage and Material Culture’, ‘Reconciliation and Social Cohesion’ and ‘Mobility and Belonging’. Applicants will be considered from across a range of disciplines including, but not limited to, the following: theatre/performance studies, film, cultural geography, anthropology, history, indigenous studies, sociology, politics, dance, ethnomusicology, international relations.

Full details are available at http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Personnel/Ads/Y0209-5242.html

Salary: £31,838 per year plus relocation allowance and yearly travel fund

Starting date: As soon as possible after 1 May 2009 (post funded until 2014)

Applications close: Friday 13 March (expected interview date 3 April)

Contact: helen.gilbert at rhul.ac.uk