47th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia 2024

Incorporating the 23rd NRPIPA Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance.

LATEST PROGRAM SCHEDULE (updated 18 November). Please download a copy of the programme using this link. The programme may be amended further as the conference approaches.

THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME is now available for download here.

Overview

Welcome to the 47th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia (MSA), incorporating the 23rd NRPIPA Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance. The program features over 100 individual papers and 6 panel sessions, presented by music scholars from Australia and around the world, with keynote lectures from Emily Dolan (Brown University, USA) and Tami Gadir (RMIT University, Australia). For abstracts, see https://msa.org.au/msa-2024/.

A broad scope of local and global music research is represented in the program. Papers will address topics ranging from European musical traditions and their international and Australian legacies to contemporary practices in popular, classical, and community musics. Other themes include music and politics, jazz studies, social histories of music making, and modes of musical analysis and performance practice.

The MSA is committed to ensuring equality of access to all attendees. If you have any access requirements or questions, please contact the MSA’s Access and Equity Officer, Alex Hedt, by email: alex.hedt@unimelb.edu.au

The conference will be held in Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT = UTC +11)

IMAGE CREDIT: Detail of Broadwood Square Piano, 1797, from Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Square_Piano_MET_DT7274.jpg, available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication