IAML Friday News (January 16, 2014)

News from IAML’s Partner Organizations, News from IAML’s National Branches, Articles of Interest, CFPs-Conferences- Fellowships, Friday Fun

 

From IAML’s Partner Organizations

• ICA December Newsletter (International Council on Archives)

• EBLIDA January Newsletter

 

From IAML’s National Branches

• MLA Conference, February 25th – March 1st, in Denver, Colorado. Program and registration online
  Social media: #musiclib2015

• MLA Newsletter, November-December 2014 now online

• UK & Ireland 2015 Annual Study Weekend: 10-12 April 2015 at Aston University, Birmingham
  Draft programme available here. Registration also online.

Articles of Interest

• January issue of CD HotList: New Releases for Libraries is online

• Music induces universal emotion-related psychophysiological responses: comparing Canadian listeners to Congolese Pygmies
  Hauke Egermann et al, Frontiers in Psychology
  Ist Musik wirklich eine universelle Sprache der Gefühle? In einem bisher einmaligen Experiment wurde die Wirkung westlicher und Pygmäen-Musik analysiert

• Q2 Music’s 2014 New-Music Countdown
  NPR Classical and Q2 polled to find out the the greatest classical music of the last 100 years
  And the winner is…

 

• Women’s contributions to the making of Motown: The Duets
  Larvester Gaither, Oxford University Press Blog
  “On 12 January 1959, Berry Gordy, Jr. founded Tamla Records in Detroit, Michigan. A year later it would be incorporated with a new name that became synonymous with a sound, style, and generation of music: Motown.”
   

Could it be that some of Beethoven’s rhythms reflect undiagnosed heart problems? Point and counterpoint.

• Why Beethoven tugs at the heart strings: The rhythms of the German composer’s music may have been prompted by a coronary disorder

Roger Dobson , The Independent

• Beethoven’s heart and Wagner’s bowels, and why they don’t matter
  Tom Service, The Guardian

 

CFPs, Conferences, Fellowships

• Audio-Visual Archives (18-19 July 2015) University of Leeds and the British Library

• Calls for Proposals, MLA Technical Reports Series and MLA Index and Bibliography Series

• Research fellowships to support use of the resources of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s Library and Archives

• ISMIR 2015 – 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference

 

Friday Fun

Play the weekly Mittwochspuzzle (Wednesday Puzzle) from our colleagues at the Stadtbücherei Würzburg: New CDs!

 

 

 

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