CFP: International Forum for Young Musicologists 2010 (Japan)

INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR YOUNG MUSICOLOGISTS 2010
MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
14 - 17 MAY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

Applicants are requested to choose one or more from the following twelve key words: 1) Acculturation, 2) Conflict, 3) Discrimination, 4)Hegemony, 5) Languages, 6) Nation, 7) Politics, 8) Propaganda, 9)Religion, 10) Tradition, 11) Values, 12) War, and submit a theme proposal in 100 words as well as an individual paper proposal in 250 words with a title.

Eligibility: Musicologists of any age or nationality who will complete a doctoral dissertation in the near future, or who were awarded a Ph.D. within the past five years or so.

Deadline of the Submission of Proposals: July 31, 2009, by e-mail attachment, addressed to the Chair of the committee, msj-ifym at ml.keio.jp.

For more information:
http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/msj4/ifym/callforpapers.html

CFP: Festival of Faith and Music (Calvin College, Michigan)

FESTIVAL OF FAITH AND MUSIC

CALVIN COLLEGE, GRAND RAPIDS, MI

2 - 4 APRIL 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote Speaker: Cornel West

The Festival of Faith & Music is a biennial conference that brings together musicians, journalists, academics, students and lovers of music and popular culture to discuss diverse forms of popular music and issues of faith. We are interested in discovering and celebrating popular music that can be understood as rooted in conviction and/or engaged with themes of faith broadly conceived, including justice, truth, hope, epiphany, transcendence, and redemption, and in

hearing or interpreting popular music from faith perspectives. Calvin College is a Christian liberal arts college which seeks to study and engage popular culture. Our festival is not primarily concerned with the Christian music industry or limited to discussing only those artists who publicly embrace a specific religion. Rather, we hope to facilitate a broader conversation about all forms of popular music and our response to it as people of faith.

Past festivals have featured artists Emmylou Harris, Sufjan Stevens, Neko Case, and David Bazan. For this year’s festival, we have invited The Hold Steady, Over The Rhine, and T Bone Burnett, and we anticipate the inclusion of many other artists. Our keynote speaker will be Cornel West, and other confirmed speakers include Makoto Fujimura, Josh Jackson (creator of Paste Magazine), Jessica Hopper, Terry Mattingly, Cathleen Falsani, and Andy Crouch.

We are seeking proposals for 20 minute (2,000-2,500 word) papers that address issues of faith in popular music and its various social and cultural contexts. We are particularly interested in papers related to our artists and speakers. Updates on confirmed artists and speakers can be found on the festival website: http://www.calvin.edu/admin/sao/festival/.

Please email a 300-word abstract (attached in Word format) to Drs. Benita Wolters-Fredlund and Mary McCampbell at ffmcfp at gmail.com. by 20 January 2009. Queries are also welcome.