MayDay Group Colloquium 33: Social Media for Good or Evil in Music Learning and Teaching - Update! |
Have you registered for MayDay Colloquium 33 yet? Join us for our in-person colloquium June 8-11, 2022! For more information, check out the MDG33 website:
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International Society for Music Education (ISME)
World Conference News
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World Conference news
ISME normally offers conference awards to help finance the costs of travel and accommodation for those who wouldn't otherwise been able to afford to attend.
For the virtual conference this has been changed to offer free registration for selected first time attendees, students and members from Low Purchasing Power Parity countries.
These conference awards must be applied for separately and before registration.
More information and the online application form can be found here.
World Conference
35th ISME World Conference: Brisbane, Australia. 17-22 July 2022
Close of early bird registrations and acceptances to participate: 17 April 2022
36th ISME World Conference: Helsinki, Finland. 28 July to 2 August 2024
Election of the Board 2022-2024
Voting opens: 18 May
Voting closes: 20 July
New Board announced: 21 July at General Assembly
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Problem-Based Learning in Music Theory and History |
We invite authors who currently utilize Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in music theory and history courses to submit abstracts for inclusion in an edited volume titled Problem-Based Learning in Music Theory and History.
A full description of the proposed volume is available at:
The book is intended to enhance the dialogue among scholars who are currently utilizing PBL in their classrooms while also providing accessible resources and tools to those who are considering implementing it for the first time. It will provide a pedagogical rationale and practical advice for implementing PBL across a range of developing cognitive levels, while offering diverse perspectives on the many forms that PBL can assume. We seek chapters that blend theory, history, performance, and composition (as experienced in the music history and theory classrooms) in their exploration of important musical and pedagogical issues. Chapters may address how PBL can be used to help students delve more deeply into matters pertaining to musical form, structure, and practice; the impact of technology, innovation, culture, philosophy, and religion on the creation of music; and ways in which musical identities are defined and preserved over time. For a more detailed description of the book and a complete list of possible topics that these chapters may investigate, please visit:
Submissions: Interested contributors should provide a 500-word chapter abstract together with a 150 word bio. In addition, they may include up to three pages of supplemental materials (e.g. tables, graphics, bibliography). All submissions should be submitted by Monday, April 11, 2022 to: PBLinTheoryandHistory@gmail.com.
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2022
Submission of draft full chapter: January 1, 2023
Please contact the book editors, Dr. Maria Anne Purciello and Dr. Daniel Stevens (PBLinTheoryandHistory@gmail.com), with any inquiries about the project or to discuss ideas for chapters.
Daniel B. Stevens, Ph.D.
Professor of Music Theory
School of Music
University of Delaware
Maria Anne Purciello, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Music History
School of Music
University of Delaware
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Fully-Funded 3-Year PhD
Live Music Now!
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Count Me In! is an internationally innovative project that explores how children and young people with severe and profound disabilities experience music, and investigates the strategies that musicians can use to make their creative interventions accessible.
Count Me In! is underpinned by the thinking set out in the Sounds of Intent framework of musical development. It will use the principle of ‘musical deconstruction’, enabling musicians to disaggregate musical structures and present them discretely, making pieces accessible at different music-developmental levels. Subsequently, ‘reconstruction’ is possible, facilitating inclusion in musical activities across the spectrum of neurodiversity.
The research will entail running a series of practical interventions using musicians from Live Music Now working with 12 severely or profoundly disabled pupils in each of six special schools for a year (72 in total). Developmentally appropriate resources will be created in partnership with the musicians and teachers, trialled, and their impact on pupils’ capacity to engage with the resources will be analysed using the Sounds of Intent framework. Modifications to the materials will be made, as required, in a cyclical research process with three phases (one per term). Beyond the research project, the resources will be made freely available online, potentially transforming access to music as art, across a range of cultures, for children and young people with severe or profound learning difficulties.
It is anticipated that the student will spend around three days a week at the University of Roehampton, (virtually or in person) and two days a week as a member of Live Music Now’s national team.
Applicants should have a 2:1 or above at bachelor’s level or equivalent and distinction at master’s level, both in a music or music-related field. Advanced music performance and analysis skills are desirable, and the capacity for critical reflection. Previous experience of working through music with disabled children or young people is desirable though not essential. We particularly welcome candidates who are under-represented in the cultural sector, including those who have experienced disabling barriers or who have experienced racism.
The successful candidate will be supervised by Professor Adam Ockelford and Professor Lorella Terzi at the University of Roehampton, and Dr Ros Hawley at Live Music Now.
Deadline for applications 4th March 2022.
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Research Associate (Doctoral Student) and Research Associate (Post-Doctoral Researcher) Positions Available!
The Music and Minorities Research Center (MMRC)
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Dear Colleagues! (With apologies for cross-posting.)
The Music and Minorities Research Center (MMRC) at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna is offering two positions:
(1) Research Associate (Doctoral Student): 3 years fixed-term contract, full-time (40 hours/week), minimum salary 3,058.60 EUR (paid 14 times a year), including health care and social benefits.
The research associate will, under the supervision of the director of MMRC, ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ursula Hemetek, and in accordance with the scholarly principles of MMRC, carry out an ethnomusicological research project from the subject area of “Musical Practices of Romani communities and individuals in the European Context”. This research project will form the basis for a dissertation to be written in the PhD program of mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and under the supervision of Ursula Hemetek. The exact topic of the research project and the dissertation will be chosen by the research associate in consultation with Ursula Hemetek and within the framework of the curricular regulations of the PhD program. The thesis may be written in German or English. The position is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): project number Z 352-G26.
For further information see the full announcement in mdw’s application portal:
Application deadline: 31 May 2022
(2) Research Associate (Post-Doctoral Researcher): 3 years fixed-term contract, full-time (40 hours/week), minimum salary 4,061.50 EUR (paid 14 times a year), including health care and social benefits.
The research associate will conduct a research project on a self-selected topic in ethnomusicological minorities studies. The project has to be in line with the scholarly principles of MMRC. The project should pay particular attention to the critical examination of the concept of “minority” – which is central to MMRC’s work – in its historical development as well as its socio-political meaning in different local contexts.
The open position is financed from the prize money of the Wittgenstein Award 2018, which was awarded to the director of the MMRC, ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ursula Hemetek, by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, project number Z 352-G26). Ursula Hemetek is therefore responsible for the scholarly and financial supervision of the research associate’s project. Additional budget is available in consultation with Ursula Hemetek for the implementation of the research project, for example for travel expenses or additional technical equipment.
Application deadline: 31 May 2022
Inquiries regarding the open positions may be sent to: mmrc@mdw.ac.at.
Applications must be submitted in electronic form via the mdw application portal:
We look forward to receiving your applications!
Kind regards,
Malik Sharif
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Visiting Assistant Professor
Lafayette College
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The Music Department of Lafayette College is currently seeking an individual with demonstrated enthusiasm for undergraduate teaching and are accepting applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Music for the academic year of 2022-23.
We especially welcome applicants who can contribute to Lafayette’s commitment to greater diversity and inclusion.
We are seeking candidates with a demonstrated enthusiasm for undergraduate teaching. The successful candidate should be able to teach introductory music courses as well as upper level undergraduate courses effectively in classroom and/or applied music environments. Candidates will teach three courses or potentially two courses and an ensemble per semester.
Candidates with interdisciplinary specializations employing methodologies from for example data science or computational methods music and digital media music and cognition music and race in society U.S. vernacular traditions are of interest to the department as would be a pairing with experience leading an ensemble representative of a musical tradition complementing the European tradition. Such ensembles might include an African Ensemble, Japanese Percussion Ensemble, Latin American Ensemble, Caribbean Ensemble or Urban Music Ensemble. Of related interest to the department would be an ability to bring applied music experiences into the classroom and potentially the larger community.
A Ph.D. in musicology or ethnomusicology D.M.A. M.F.A. or other terminal degree is preferred. (ABD candidates will also be considered.) More information about the department is available at music.lafayette.edu. Please submit a letter of application statement of teaching interests c.v. and three letters of reference at apply.interfolio.com/101856. In your application, please address how your teaching mentoring and/or community service support Lafayette College’s commitment to diversity and inclusion articulated in the College’s diversity statement (http://about.lafayette.edu/diversity-statement/).
Review of applications will begin March 1 and will continue until the position is filled.
Lafayette College a highly selective undergraduate liberal arts institution with programs in the arts sciences social sciences and engineering is in Easton Pennsylvania 70 miles from New York City and 60 miles from Philadelphia. Lafayette College is committed to creating a diverse community one that is inclusive and responsive and is supportive of each and all of its faculty students and staff. All members of the College community share a responsibility for creating maintaining and developing a learning environment in which difference is valued equity is sought and inclusiveness is practiced. Lafayette College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from women and minorities.
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