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deadline.
- 1/31/00
- The BEATLES 2000 Conference
University of Jyvaskyla, Department of Music
http://www.jyu.fi/musica/b2000.
- On behalf of the organisers of the BEATLES 2000 Conference we are happy to
invite you to join us at the first interdisciplinary World Conference on the
Beatles. The conference will be held at the University of Jyvaskyla, Department
of Music from June 15-18, 2000. Jyvaskyla is the principal city in the central
region of Finland. Together with its surroundings, the City is inhabited by
some 100 000 people and is located on Lake Paijanne in the heart of one of the
Finnish lake districts. The world famous architect Alvar Aalto has greatly
contributed to creating the modern appearance of Jyvaskyla and the conference
building is designed by him. The travel connections to Jyvaskyla are good by
air, rail and road from both Helsinki and Turku.We invite you to submit an
abstract for paper presentation at the Conference. There will be 30 minutes for
each presentation: 20 minutes for the paper and 10 minutes for discussion. Our
aim is to provide a forum for all Beatles scholars, regardless of orientation
and perspective. As such, the Conference has no specific theme. However, we
encourage proposals relating especially to the following broad topics: - the
roots and heritage of the Beatles - the Beatles as a cultural phenomenon, with
respect to the 1960s in particular - the position of the Beatles within
popular/rock music - the reception of the Beatles in the world - making music -
songwriting, arranging, recording, mixing, releasing - individual songs and/or
albums - musical style and its change We expect that the prevailing approaches
of popular music research - musicology, cultural studies, ethnomusicology,
semiotics, and sociology - will be well represented in the Conference. We also
welcome proposals that broaden the scope of study beyond the prevailing
research orientations with different branches of psychology (cognitive, social,
psycho-analysis) and historical research (source-criticism, manuscript and
sketch studies). Proposals should be sent in one of the following formats: -
email (strongly preferred): PostScrit (.ps), Portable Document Format (.pdf) or
Plain Text. - hard copy: 6 copies The one-page abstract should be in English
and no more than 400 words in length. Headings should include the title in ALL
CAPITAL LETTERS, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), including
city and country. Please omit university degrees, titles, street addresses, and
postal code. The abstracts should provide sufficient information for readers to
fully assess the aims, method, results, and implications of the research in
question. We encourage submitting structured abstracts with headings including
(1) background, (2) aims, (3) method, (4) results, and (5) conclusions and/or
implications. For theoretical papers or reviews the suggested headlines would
include (1) background, (2) aims, (3) main contribution, and (4) conclusions
and/or implications. Hard copy submissions must include one complete, one-page,
camera ready abstract, which will be printed in the Abstract Book. Abstracts
should be typed on one A4 size (210 mm x 297 mm) white bond paper lengthwise
and written within a 247 mm high by 160 mm wide retangle. The margins should be
25 mm. Text should be justified left, single-spaced, with the character size
set at 12 points, with Helvetica or Arial typeface. Do not hyphenate words at
the end of lines. The proposals should be sent to the Conference Secretariat
and will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee: Ms Terhi Nurmesjarvi
E-mail: nuteka@cc.jyu.fi. Street address:
BEATLES 2000 Conference University of Jyvaskyla Department of Music P.O. Box 35
(M) FIN-40351 Jyvaskyla, FINLAND. Tel. +358 14 260 1348 Fax: +358 14 260 1331
- 1/1/00
- OPERA ANALYSIS
APRIL 2000
TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
- Abstracts are invited for papers considering all aspects of opera analysis,
for a two-day conference to be held at Trinity College, Cambridge on 10th and
11th April, 2000. The conference hopes to provide a platform for the
exploration of a variety of analytical approaches to opera, and a re-evaluation
of the contribution that can be made in this field in the light of the recent
proliferation of socially and historically contextual studies of this 400 year
old genre. Papers should be 25-30 minutes long; please send abstracts (150
words) of proposals and details of audio-visual requirements by 1st January to:
Joanna Harris, Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ UK e-mail: jlh32@cam.ac.uk
- 12/13/99
- The 13th Nordic Musicological Congress
Department of Musicology at the University of Aarhus
15
August to 19 August 2000. The congress is open to all interested registered
participants, and is divided into plenary morning sessions and individual
sessions during the afternoon.
- The programme will be divided into plenary morning sessions and individual
afternoon sessions. The four morning sessions are devoted to the following
themes (preliminary descriptions):
- Wednesday 16 August :WORKING GROUP 1: Music as Culture - Setting new
Agendas Within today's musical scholarship a number of different research
activities deliberately cultivate alternatives to the more conventional
musicological fields of research in an attempt to expand, question or even
replace the canonical, theoretical and methodological norms of predominant
agendas. These often interdisciplinary activities include cultural studies,
gender studies, popular music studies, and other forms of studies associated
with New Musicology, as well as ethnomusicology and sociology of music. Common
to all is the basic understanding of music as a social and cultural phenomenon.
The aim of the session is to present and debate general as well as specific
issues within this scholarly spectrum.
- Thursday 17 August WORKING GROUP 2: Music as Text - Revising the
Analytical Agenda Distinguished by constant revision and renewal of its
methodological agenda, the field of music analysis has found inspiration in as
disparate areas as hermeneutics and, more recently, semiotics in its attempt to
deal with the meaning and effect of musical works. This ongoing process of
methodological expansion and actual redefinition has to some degree also been
dictated by the embrace of new kinds of musical material, e.g. popular music
and electro acoustic music, the usually non-graphic nature of which
necessitates new approaches to the determination of key parameters, to the
discussion of musical meaning and to the basic question of what constitutes a
musical work. The aim of the session is to present and debate key issues in
relation to todays analytical research activities and their objectives.
- Friday 18 August WORKING GROUP 3: Music Education and Music Therapy The
expansion of the musicological fields of research also comprises music
education (including interpretation) and music therapy. Within the Nordic
countries this change has been made obvious by the conversion of conservatoires
into research institutions, by various instances of integration of music
academies and university music departments, and by the fact that institutions
of research and education have been established within music education and
music therapy. The aim of the session is to present the current state of these
fields of research and to demonstrate their place within musical scholarship at
large.
- Saturday 19 August WORKING GROUP 4: Musicology and Communication The
consequences of the rapid development within information technology, including
an increased societal interest in (or rather evaluation of) scholarly research
and education, have made the communication and dissemination of research
achievements a key issue. How have scholars responded to this challenge so far,
and how should they respond in the future? These issues merit illumination and
debate from various perspectives, including their relevance to specific
research programmes, e.g. the extensive Nordic historical projects, the
question of mass media mediation in general, and, perhaps most topical, the
scholar's appropriation and utilization of the latest electronic media, e.g.
the internet. The working group of each of these morning sessions will propose
a key-note speaker and select a discussion-panel, whose participants will
present statements related to the initial key note presentation. Congress
participants are of course welcome to join the debate.
- The afternoons are reserved for individual presentations, and proposals
are invited for free papers, thematic sessions, round table sessions, and
poster presentations in all areas of musicology. Thematic groupings of free
papers will be arranged by the Programme Committee. Important dates: Deadline
for submission of abstracts and proposals: 1 December 1999 Notification to
Authors: February 2000 Publication of provisional programme: March 2000
Deadline for registration: 1 April 2000 Congress: 15-19 August 2000
Contributions from both scholars and Ph.D. students are welcomed. Please read
the following guidelines carefully. Free Papers The duration of free papers
will be strictly limited to twenty minutes, leaving ten minutes for questions
and discussion. The abstract must not exceed 1000 characters and should
represent the talk as fully as possible, i.e. provide sufficient information as
to the aims, methods, results and implications of the research in question.
Thematic Sessions Groups of participants may propose an entire session
consisting of two to five papers, devoted to a single topic. The Programme
Committee reserves the right to reconfigure the makeup of any session proposed.
Round-table Sessions The Programme Committee also invites proposals for more
informal panel discussions, e.g. examining a central body of scholarly work or
a methodological theme. Rather than free papers, the round-table sessions
should include brief statements by the participants not exceeding ten minutes
each, so that there will be ample time for discussion. Organizers of panel
discussions should submit an outline of the issues and the names of all
panelists. Poster Sessions Stands will be available for poster-project
sessions.
- GENERAL GUIDELINES Abstracts of proposed papers, sessions, or posters can
be submitted by mail (paper and - if possible - on disk), fax, or e-mail and
should reach us by 1 December 1999. The abstract must include the following
details: name, institutional affiliation, full mailing address, phone, e-mail
address, fax number. All authors will be notified of receipt via e-mail, fax,
or mail. Papers should be delivered in one of the Scandinavian languages
(Swedish, Norwegian, Danish), English, or German (please note that no
translation will be provided). All abstracts will be published in the booklet
distributed at the congress. The relevant addresses are as follows: Mail: NMK
2000 Department of Musicology University of Aarhus Langelandsgade 139 DK-8000
Aarhus C Fax: +45-89 42 51 64 E-mail; nmk2000@hum.aau.dk
- 12/15/99
- Blueprints for No-Man's Land: Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture
University of Aberdeen
14-17 September 2000
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~ger042/conference.html
- This interdisciplinary conference will investigate the connections between
different forms of cultural production and representation in present-day
Austria. It has two interrelated aims: first, to facilitate interaction between
theorists and practitioners with an interest in contemporary Austrian culture
and second, to explore areas of overlap between various forms of cultural
representation in contemporary Austrian culture. The conference will be
accompanied by literary readings, an art exhibition, and a theatre performance.
These 'accompanying events' will form an integral part of the conference, while
also presenting aspects of Austrian culture to a wider non-academic audience.
Among those who have expressed an interest in contributing are Manfred Erjautz,
Veronika Dreier, Theater im Bahnhof (Graz). Utilising as a central motif a
model of the cultural sphere as city, divided into distinct, but overlapping
areas through which theorists and practitioners circulate, we are seeking
papers which explore the nature of the 'Zwischenr=E4ume' between different
forms of representation. Papers should address the connections (historical,
existing, potential and missed) between various cultural spheres such as: *
literature * art * architecture * music * film * theatre and cabaret. In each
case, we are interested in both 'high' and 'low' culture, as well as in works
which subvert this distinction. Papers, either in English or in German, should
be 30 minutes long. Please send your paper title and short abstract (200 words)
by 15 December 1999 to: Dr. Janet Stewart, Dept. of German, Taylor
Building, University of Aberdeen, OLD ABERDEEN AB24 3UB, Tel.: 01224 272488
email: j.stewart@abdn.ac.uk
Conference Organisers: Mag. Astrid Becksteiner, Dr. Janet Stewart, Dr. Simon
Ward
- 12/01/99
- Royal Holloway University of London
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NINETEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC
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June to 2 July 2000
http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/00-6-ncm.html
- The Music Department at Royal Holloway, University of London will host the
eleventh International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music from 29 June to 2
July 2000. The Conference will be held on the College's campus in Egham,
Surrey, which is 35 minutes by train from London and a short journey from
Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The Keynote Paper will be given by Hermann
Danuser (Humboldt Universität, Berlin), and there will be a special
round-table session chaired by John Daverio (Boston University) on
"Romanticism and the Historical Consciousness". The Programme
Committee (David Charlton, Katharine Ellis, John Rink) invites proposals for
papers on any aspect of music in the nineteenth century, but contributions on
the following topics are particularly encouraged: popular musics; music and
technology; performing traditions; music as commodity, memory, and
reminiscence; music in literature; art music and the State; and temporality in
music Individual papers should last no more than twenty minutes. Proposals for
round tables or study sessions up to two hours long are also welcome. Abstracts
(200 words) should be submitted to David Charlton at the address below by 1
December 1999, as should proposals for round tables/study sessions (500 words).
The programme will be announced early in January 2000. Further information can
be obtained from David Charlton, Department of Music, Royal Holloway,
University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, England (tel +44 1784 443946; fax +44
1784 439441; e-mail d.charlton@rhbnc.ac.uk.
- 10/15/99
- International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature April
6-9,2000
Atlanta, GA
- The International Society for the Study of Narrative Literature will
sponsor an international conference in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 6-9, 2000. We
invite you to submit abstracts for papers for a panel on the general topic
"Opera as Narrative" at that conference. Papers should focus on ways
in which opera could be considered a type of narrative and may deal with
individual works or the broader theoretical issue. Please submit 500-word
abstracts (for 20-minute presentations) to Sandra Corse, The School of
Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA 30032-0165 or by email (sandra.corse@lcc.gatech.edu).
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is October 15, 1999. Link for conference:
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Narrative.html
- Sandra Corse, Director of Undergraduate Studies School of Literature,
Communication, and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
30332-0165 404-894-7001
- 10/1/99
- The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music and Related Arts
Eighth Annual Conference
27-30 April 2000
America's Shrine to Music Museum
University of South Dakota (Vermillion).
- Proposals on all aspects of seventeenth-century music and music culture,
including papers dealing with other fields as they relate to music, are
welcome. Because of the venue, proposals pertaining to musical instruments and
such topics as tuning systems are especially encouraged. A prize will be
awarded for the best student paper. Presentations are invited in a variety of
formats, including papers, lecture-recitals, workshops involving group
participation, and roundtable discussions. Papers will generally be limited to
20 minutes and lecture-recitals to 45 minutes. It is the policy of the Society
to require a year's hiatus before presenters at the previous meeting can be
considered for another presentation. Five copies (four anonymous and one
identified with name, address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address) of an
abstract of not more than two pages, postmarked by 1 October 1999, should be
sent to Jeffrey Kurtzman, Dept. of Music, Campus Box 1032, Washington
University, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899. Abstracts from outside the United States
and Canada may be sent by fax (one copy only) to 314/727-1596. Tapes (audio or
visual) supporting proposals for lecture-recitals are welcome.
- 9/30/99
- Freedom of Expression in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
(1350-1650)
February 18-20, 2000
University of California-Santa Barbara
An
Interdisciplinary Conference
Keynote speaker: Constance Jordan Chair of Early Modern Studies Program
Claremont Graduate University. For more information:
Michael O'Connell.
- The Renaissance Studies Program of the University of California, Santa
Barbara, invites paper and session proposals for an interdisciplinary
conference on "Freedom of Expression in the Late Medieval and Early Modern
World" to be held at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center on the UCSB
Campus, February 18-20, 2000. "Freedom of Expression" is a conference
exploring the strategic choices individuals made in order to express themselves
in late medieval and early modern culture, and focusing upon the following
issues: How free was expression in the period, and how might that freedom and
its limitations be characterized? How did individuals and groups construct
expression in order to be heard? What constructions of expression were
acceptable, and upon what basis were particular constructions chosen? How was
expression constrained by larger events such as plague, war, and religious
upheaval? Was there such a thing as freedom of expression in the late medieval
and early modern world? Many different media, such as musical composition and
performance, dancing, painting, dramatic arts, poetry, and religious and legal
testimony, may be explored. Topics include, but are not limited to: * libel and
slander * anonymity * speaking in tongues * gossip and rumor * censorship *
translation * religious expression * heresy and recusancy * tale-telling *
treasonous expression * issues of patronage * plague and disease * issues of
gender in expression, and women's expression * issues of race * corporate vs.
individual expression Please send abstracts for twenty minute presentations by
September 30, 1999 to: Michael O'Connell, Department of English,
University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA Phone: +1-(805) 893-4022
Fax: +1-(805) 893-4622 Email: oconnell@humanitas.ucsb.edu.
- Interdisciplinary Studies: In the Middle, Across, or in Between?
Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
Yale
University, February 25-27, 2000
http://www.yale.edu/complit/acla2000.htm
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- Comparative Literature has increasingly been offering an intellectual and
institutional space where students and scholars can feel free to explore the
possibilities--and limits--of interdisciplinary work. The organizing committee
of the 2000 ACLA Conference seeks proposals dealing with specific
manifestations of this particular development and with their theoretical basis.
We are especially interested in topics with a broad historical and geographical
emphasis and extend a particular invitation to scholars studying connections
between literary studies and the social and natural sciences, including, in no
particular order, physics, economics, politics, law, anthropology, medicine,
history, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Proposals focusing
on cross-fertilization with archeology, music, and the visual arts (including
architecture, film, cartoons, and comic strips) are also welcome. See
http://www.yale.edu/complit/acla2000.htm for further details, including a list
of suggested topics and a regularly updated list of seminar proposals for which
contributions are being solicited. We expect that the majority of sessions will
take the form of 12-person seminars, meeting two hours a day for the three
mornings of the conference, with four papers presented each day. There will
also be a number of 8-person seminars, meeting two hours a day for the two
afternoons of the conference. Each participant will have the opportunity to
take full part in one seminar and then float freely among individual sessions
in other seminars. We invite proposals for either an individual paper or a
fully or partially formed seminar. You can join with a number of other people
to present a fully-formed seminar; alternatively, you can propose a topic you
would like to see, with one or more abstracts already attached to it, and the
conference committee will try to fill out the seminar as appropriate. (Should
this prove impossible, the committee will make every effort to find other
seminar homes for the submitted abstracts.) If you have a seminar topic for
which you wish to solicit contributions directly, you may do so by forwarding
your solicitation to the secretariat of the ACLA at info@acla.org. Your
solicitation will then be posted on the conference web site
(http://www.yale.edu/complit/acla2000.htm). Be sure to give a deadline that
will give persons whose proposals you will not be able to accommodate ample
time to submit their proposal independently to the Program Committee. If you
wish to submit a paper to one of the seminars advertised on the conference web
site, send it to the organizer(s) of the seminar by the deadline they have
listed. If they are unable to accommodate your paper, they will inform you so
that you can still submit it independently to the Program Committee by the
September 30, 1999 deadline. DEADLINE FOR THE RECEPTION of seminar and
independent paper proposals by the Program Committee at Yale University:
SEPTEMBER 30, 1999 One-page abstracts for individual paper proposals must
include NAME, DEPARTMENTAL AND INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION, POSTAL ADDRESS, and
E-MAIL ADDRESS; seminar proposals must include one-page abstracts for each
presenter, as well as names, departmental and institutional affiliations,
postal addresses, and e-mail addresses of ALL participants. Proposals MUST be
sent via SURFACE or AIR MAIL to: ACLA 2000 Program Committee Department of
Comparative Literature Yale University P.O. Box 208299 USA - New Haven, CT
06520-8299 Street address (for private companies such as FEDEX or UPS): ACLA
2000 Program Committee Department of Comparative Literature Yale University 344
College Street 105 Connecticut Hall USA - New Haven, CT 06511 IMPORTANT: DO NOT
SEND INDIVIDUAL PROPOSALS OR FINALIZED SEMINAR PROPOSALS TO THE ACLA. The Yale
Program Committee will be making all decisions concerning proposals.
- London International JEWISH MUSIC CONFERENCE 2000
School of Oriental and African Studies University of London
Sunday 25 - Thursday 29 June 2000.
- Conference Director: Alexander Knapp. MUSIC IN JEWISH COMMUNITIES:
DISPERSAL, DISPLACEMENT AND IDENTITY. Jewish diasporas are normally seen as
emanating outward from ancient and modern Israel. But Jewish culture has taken
root and developed within other environments from which new diasporas have
spread elsewhere, including a return to Israel. Papers addressing issues of
change, under the following broad categories, are invited for consideration: 1.
Classical music traditions: is there a definable Jewish identity? 2. Folk music
and dance traditions: the absorption of local influences into Jewish music and
the promotion of regional styles to a wider or international audience. 3.
Liturgical music traditions: contacts with other religions; the extent to which
a separate Jewish identity has been maintained, and the extent to which such
contacts have led to musical inter-influence. 4. Issues of gender: the place of
men's and women's music in Jewish life; roles and modes of expression. If you
would like to present a 20-minute paper, please reply as soon as possible and
send an abstract of 200 words to arrive no later than 30 September 1999 (by
email if possible). It is intended to publish a book of selected papers from
the conference. Please send the form below to: Alexander Knapp, Joe Loss
Lecturer in Jewish Music, Music Department, SOAS, University of London,
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK; email
ak42@soas.ac.uk; Tel: +44-171 691 3410;
Fax +44-171 637 6182. Organised by the Committee for the London Jewish Music
Conference 2000.
Past Calls
- THE MUSIC OF PETER MAXWELL DAVIES AND COMPOSITIONAL CONTEXTS RELATED TO HIS
WORK
- On the first weekend of April 2000 (April 1st and 2nd), St Martin's College
at Lancaster is hosting a Conference devoted to the music of Peter Maxwell
Davies. It is hoped to have performances of a number of his works throughout
the weekend including music for chamber ensemble, orchestra and the pieces for
children. The composer will be present to talk about his music and it is
intended that a new book on aspects of his compositional technique will be
available for purchase. The Conference itself will run parallel to the
performances and it is intended that some events will be open to the general
public while others will be for Conference delegates only. The organisers now
invite papers or poster displays on aspects of the music of Peter Maxwell
Davies or on topics which explore contextual matters which have a bearing on
his work (for example on: Aspects of Serial-related Pitch Manipulation;
Birtwistle; The Late Twentieth-Century Symphony; Music Theatre). Interested
participants are asked to send a brief synopsis of their proposal (250 words)
to: Dr Richard McGregor, St Martin's College, Bowerham Road, Lancaster
LA1 3JD UK r.mcgregor@ucsm.ac.uk. By
snail mail to arrive not later than September 15th 1999 or by e-mail not later
than September 30th 1999.