This is a reminder of the call for essay submissions for the
Andrew Goodwin Memorial Prize. This is an annual prize worth £500 for best
postgraduate student paper on any aspect of popular music from any
disciplinary perspective. See full details below.
Please circulate widely and encourage your students to submit an essay.
Please also consider printing a poster to put on your office door to
publicize the prize (you can download a poster here
<http://www.iaspm.org.uk/iaspm/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Andrew-Goodwin-Prize-2016.pdf>).
Alternatively, if you're a PG student member of IASPM UK-I, please consider
submitting!
*The Andrew Goodwin Memorial Prize*
http://www.iaspm.org.uk/andrew-goodwin-memorial-prize/
Andrew Goodwin was a key figure in the development of popular music
studies. His background was in media and cultural studies: he received his
Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the University of Birmingham and taught for
many years in the Department of Media Studies at the University of San
Francisco. He was a pioneer of the scholarly analysis of music video (in
his book, Dancing in the Distraction Factory. Music Television and Popular
Culture, for example, which drew on his previous work on television) and an
astute critic of the use of postmodern theory in popular cultural studies.
But his work also reflected his experiences as a working musician and
critic (experiences explored in his entertaining Professor of Pop blog),
and his articles on such topics as music technology and the concept of
world music remain models of clear-eyed common sense and analytic insight,
informed as much by practice as theory. As a teacher, colleague and
friend, Andrew was an untiring source of ideas, enthusiasm and support, and
his untimely death, in September 2013, was a huge loss to all of us in
IASPM. The Andrew Goodwin Memorial Prizewas established in 2014 as a
fitting tribute to his generosity to younger scholars.
Aim: To promote popular music research and to support new scholars.
Eligibility: Postgraduate students who are currently registered at
universities and colleges in the U.K. and Ireland and who are members of
IASPM. Current students and IASPM UK-I members who submitted essays for the
AGMP in previous years but were unsuccessful may apply again; however, they
are not allowed to submit the same essay (or essay topic) twice. Previous
winners of the AGMP may not apply again.
Awarded for: Essay of 3,000 to 4,000 words, on any aspect of popular music
from any disciplinary perspective.
Prize: £500 and publication of the winning essay on the
Andrew Goodwin Memorial Prize web page on the IASPM UK and Ireland website.
Dates: Submissions to open 1 October 2016 and close 31 December 2016.
Decision announced 1st May following year. Prize awarded at IASPM UK-I
conference (and at IASPM international conference alternate years).
Panel of judges: The 2016-17 panel of judges is Matt Brennan, Sara Cohen,
Simon Frith, and Sarah Hill.
Guidelines for submission:
Submissions should be in either a Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or .RTF
document file format, with double-spaced, 11-point in Arial font text
(quotations larger than 40 words indented, in 10-point text). The student’s
name and institution should appear on a title page as part of the essay
document. PDF files cannot be accepted. All submissions should follow the
Harvard Referencing Guide.
Essays should be submitted by 31 December 2016 to the following e-mail
address: [log in to unmask]
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Matt Brennan
http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/reid-school-of-music/matt-brennan
Reid School of Music
University of Edinburgh
Alison House
12 Nicolson Square
Edinburgh EH8 9DF
United Kingdom
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