Please forward this to interested parties:

The Canadian branch of the International Association for the Study of
Popular Music (IASPM) Conference 2000
in association with CRELIQ
(Centre the recherche en étude litteraire québécoise)

(PRE)MILLENIAL TENSIONS
Pop Music at the Precipice

Université Laval, Québec City, Québec
May 20-21, 2000

This last century has been marked by a proliferation of mechanical and
electronic technologies that have affected virtually every aspect of our
lives.  As far as popular music is concerned, not only has technology
reconfigured music production, diffusion and consumption, but it has also
radically changed the degree as well as the kind of interactions we have
with it.

For its annual conference, the Canadian branch of IASPM invites proposals
that deal with all aspects of popular music at the turn of the millenium.
Suggested topics might include, but shouldn't be restricted to, the
following:

New technologies versus old:  Rethinking intelllectual copyright and
marketing and re-considering shifts in production, distribution and
consumption.

New technologies and the culture of celebrity.

New technologies and their impact on musicological approaches: New
methodologies, new sounds

The past, present and future of popular music:  The changing nature of
research and possible questions raised regarding methodologies and the
legitimacy of on-line versus archival research.

Disciplining pop: Technology and teaching popular music.

Ethnography and the study of popular music: If it's the answer, what was
the question?

Good versus bad taste, interested versus disinterested scholarship: What is
"music that sucks" and why is it worth studying?

World/'ethnic' musics: Western nostalgia and the technological
fetishization of tradition and the 'pristine' other.

(Pre-millenial) tensions: The relationship between tradition and
globalization at the close of the millenium.

Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes in length.  Please notify us in
advance if you need audiovisual equipment.

Due date for proposals (no longer than 250 words in length):
January 10th, 2000

Proposals can be either emailed (preferably), posted or faxed to:

Geoff Stahl - IASPM Canada
Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University
3645 Peel Street
Montréal, Québec, Canada    H3A 1W7
Email: [log in to unmask]	FAX: 514-398-4934

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Geoff Stahl
Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University
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