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The Society for Ethnomusicology is soliciting submissions for its growing bibliography of resources on improvisation. Interested contributors should register with the Zotero platform. This bibliography of resources will consist of…

The International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) is happy to announce that its 10th Anniversary special event will take place in Korea, hosted by Jeonju International Sori Festival 2016 (전주세계소리축제) in Jeonju province, South Korea. ISIM invites proposals for a total of twenty people to perform and participate in workshops at Jeonju International Sori Festival.

It is with great sadness that IICSI shares the news of the passing of Dr. Jo-Ann Episkenew on February 18, 2016. As Director of the Indigenous People’s Health Research Centre and a member of the IICSI research team, she has been a generous thinker, friend, and colleague to many. Our thoughts and hearts are with her family and friends at this difficult time.

Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity (edited by Gillian Siddall and Ellen Waterman) is the newest book in the “Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice” series from Duke University Press. The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and between bodies in real and virtual time and across memory, history, and space.

Registration is now open for the fourth Rhythm Changes conference, Jazz Utopia. This event will feature academic papers, panels and poster sessions alongside an exciting programme of concerts delivered in partnership with the Birmingham Conservatoire and THSH-Jazzlines.

The School of Languages and Literatures and the History Department Public Lecture Series present Harald Kisiedu, “Like A Cry You Wanted to Answer”: Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky and the Emergence of Jazz Experimentalism in East Germany.

Maggie Nicols, born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1948, worked in popular music and jazz as a singer and dancer until, in 1968, she landed in London and began performing with…

Organized by the Columbia Center for Jazz Studies J-Disc task force, in partnership with IICSI, IPLAI, and the Schulich School of Music, Jazzing the Data proved the importance of collating and making available these vast expanses of discographical data in order to create new knowledge in the growing fields of Jazz Studies and Critical Studies in Improvisation.

March 4th, 2016 | 3-5pm University of Guelph, MacKinnon 203 The Creative Music Symposium and Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series Present: How Do You Turn an Academic…

As part of the Canadian New Music Network’s 2016 Forum, Ottawa New Music Creators and Carleton University’s School for Studies in Art and Culture presented a unique improvisatory event at the…