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Call for Dossier Articles:  Transcription in Music Studies: Practices, Pragmatics, Pitfalls

May 21, 2024

Call for Dossier Articles:  Transcription in Music Studies: Practices, Pragmatics, Pitfalls

If human ears were able to perceive all of the acoustic contents of a musical utterance, and if the human mind could retain all of what had been perceived, then analysis of what is heard would be preferable. Reduction of music to notation on paper is at best imperfect, for either a type of notation must select from the acoustic phenomena those which the notator considers most essential, or it will be so complex that it itself will be too difficult to perceive.”

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The full issue of Música Popular em Revista v. 8 (2021): Theory and research methods is now accessible online.

January 13, 2022

The full issue of Música Popular em Revista v. 8 (2021): Theory and research methods is now accessible online.
Contents include 15 articles and a presentation on Multiple theoretical and methodological approaches in popular music studies [in Latin America], and two articles on teaching popular music. 
Link to the journal's abstract: https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/muspop/issue/view/767

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Call for papers for Volume 9 (2022)

December 28, 2021

Música Popular em Revista (MPR)/Journal of Popular Music is an open-access online journal linked to the Graduate Programs in Music at the Institute of Arts at UNICAMP and the Center of Arts and Letters at UNIRIO. MPR publishes original articles by scholars connected to distinct disciplines in the field of humanities such as musicology, ethnomusicology, history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, literature and communication. 

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