CFP: Watching Jazz: Analysing Jazz Performance on Audiovisual Resources (University of Glasgow)

WATCHING JAZZ: ANALYSING JAZZ PERFORMANCE ON AUDIOVISUAL RESOURCES
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
18 - 19 FEBRUARY 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote address: John Altman

Jazz historiography has traditionally revolved around sound recordings, with still images, written documents and oral histories employed as complementary sources. Although this approach has generally been regarded as successful, there is growing awareness among scholars of the problematic nature of such heavy reliance on sound recordings. In particular, it has obscured aspects of the music and the cultural practices surrounding it that are not apparent from sound recordings, and has led to the marginalisation of musicians who did not produce their best work in the recording studio.

The AHRC-funded project ‘The Use of Audiovisual Resources in Jazz Historiography and Scholarship Performance, Embodiment and Mediatised Representations’, which is part of the ‘Beyond Text’ scheme, proposes to address this situation through research based on the John Altman collection of audiovisual recordings of jazz performances. Consisting of more than 10,000 VHS tapes and DVDs, mostly of televised broadcasts, this collection spans the history of jazz, from the invention of sound film to the present, in all its geographic and cultural variety. Part of the project is a two-day conference, and we hereby invite contributions on all aspects of jazz performance on audiovisual resources.

Among the topics to be addressed are:
• Viewing the Performing Body
• Group Interaction and Communication
• Audiences, Venues and Performance Conventions in Comparative Perspective
• Broadcasting Conventions and Mediatised Representations

It is planned for a selection of the papers to be published in a collected volume. Participants are encouraged to access materials in the John Altman Collection to support their research (for details, contact Björn Heile, using the email below).

We invite proposals for individual papers, panels and lecture-recitals. Individual papers should be no more than 30 minutes long, followed by 15 minutes for questions and answers. Proposals for individual papers should be no more than 300 words, and proposals for panels no more than 1000 words. Abstracts should be emailed as an anonymous attachment (doc,rtf or pdf format) to jazzvideo.conference [at] googlemail.com by 1 September 2010. The body of the email should contain the proposal’s title(s) and clarify the full name and institutional affiliation (or place of residence) of all proposed participants, as well as the e-mail address that should be used for correspondence. We intend to respond to all potential participants by October 2010.

The programme committee consists of the project’s investigators: Jenny Doctor (University of York), Peter Elsdon (University of Hull) and Björn Heile (conference organiser, University of Sussex/University of Glasgow).

The call for papers and other information can be found here.
Conference sponsors include: the Arts and Humanities Research Council
and the journal, Jazz Research

CFP: Thinking Videodance II (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

THINKING VIDEODANCE II
SECOND INTERNATIONAL VIDEODANCE SYMPOSIUM (SIV, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA)
16 - 19 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Videodance Festival of Buenos Aires Association calls for papers to be presented at the II International Videodance Symposium (SIV), from November 16 to 19, 2009, in the framework of the Festival VideoDanzaBA 2009 (www.VideoDanzaBA.com.ar)

Open Call for Papers: Extended deadline: August 14th., 2009

With the aim of continuing the development of the multi-disciplinary reflections, that were initiated by the Symposium “Thinking videodance”, in the frame of the International VideoDanzaBA Festival in 2007, the Academic Exchange Committee of the International Videodance Festival of Buenos Aires Association, invites to present papers concerning to any subject related to research and education in Videodance.

This academic meeting was born by the interest of critics, analysts and artists, who wanted to generate a space for interdisciplinary reflection over Videodance, which, as a hybrid language, is conformed by its own specific and complex grammars and has a still incipient academic reflection field.

Taking into account the succeed of its 2007 edition, our objective for 2009 is to pursue and to contribute to the building of a network of academic bonds both nationally and internationally; as well as to deepen the thinking process, inviting a new generations of researchers and artists to make their own contributions.

Languages
Languages of the Symposium lectures will be English and Spanish.


Regulations for abstracts
* Abstracts, of no more than 200 words, will be received until August 14th., 2009 (extended deadline).
* All proposals must be submitted along with the following information from the lecturer: name, academic degree, institution memberships (if any), address, e-mail and a brief curriculum vitae.
* Detail of the required tools for the lecture (projector, screen/TV set, DVD player, laptop connection, etc.)
* Proposals must be uploaded online at www.VideoDanzaBA.com.ar. Please, click on “Academicas”, on the left column of home page.

The Academic Exchange Committee will e-mail acceptance notification and additional program information by August 30th, 2009.


Regulations for lectures and publishing
Lecturers must send a copy of their complete paper no later than September 30th, 2009.

Each lecture during the Symposium must be no longer than 20 minutes (with 10 additional minutes for questions, comments and answers).

In collaboration with the Intituto Universitario Nacional del Arte (http://iuna.edu.ar), and Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica (www.cinecic.com.ar).

For more information about the Symposium, write to simposio [AT]videodanzaba.com.ar

For info about Festival, visit www.VideoDanzaBA.com.ar

VideoDanzaBA Academic Activities Coordinator: Lic. Susana Temperley
VideoDanzaBA Director: Silvina Szperling

CFP: 8th Annual Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic (Penn State University)

MUSIC THEORY SOCIETY OF THE MID-ATLANTIC EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY
26 - 27 MARCH 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic will hold its Eighth Annual Meeting at Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania on Friday and Saturday, 26-27 March 2010. The MTSMA welcomes proposals on any aspect of music theory. Presentations are limited to thirty (30) minutes: twenty (20) minutes for the paper and ten (10) minutes for discussion.

Please include the following in your submission:

1. Seven (7) copies of a proposal. Proposals are limited to 500 words and no more than two pages of text (double-spaced in a 10- to 12-point font) plus examples and references. No information that identifies the author(s) or institutional affiliation should appear in the proposal.

2. A cover letter that includes the author's name, paper title, institutional affiliation or city of residence, phone number(s), and e-mail address. Submissions will be acknowledged by email only.

3. One copy of a 200-250 word abstract suitable for publication.

Students wishing to be considered for the Dorothy Payne Award for the best student paper should send seven (7) copies of the entire paper with their proposal.

Address for submissions by US Post:

Dora A. Hanninen, MTSMA Program Chair
c/o Ms. Tracy Krulik
2110 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
School of Music, University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742

Email submissions are encouraged! Put all cover letter information in the body of your email, with the proposal and the 200-250 word abstract as two separate attachments. All attachments must be either MS Word documents or pdfs. Send email submissions to: mtsma2010 at gmail.com with the subject line: "MTSMA 2010 Proposal."

Deadline for receipt (by email or US Post) is December 1, 2009

Announcement: Music for Stringed Instruments: Music Archives and the Materials of Musicological Research in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries (Cardiff

MUSIC FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENTS: MUSIC ARCHIVES AND THE MATERIALS OF MUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES

SCHOOL OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF CARDIFF

23 - 24 JUNE 2010

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

This conference will take place as part of a 4-year AHRC-funded research project focusing on 19th- and early 20th-century performing editions of string chamber music - texts which are invaluable sources for empirical evidence about performance practices during that period. The topics this conference is expected to address will include 19th- and early 20th-century publishing history, comparative studies of editions, performing editions and performance practices, and musical archival studies. 

A formal call for papers will be circulated in October 2009.

For further information, contact: 

George Kennaway, School of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England, U.K.

Email: g.w.kennaway@leeds.ac.uk

Tel: (+44)/(0) 113 3438218

Instruments of Passion: Music, Painting, and the Contest of the Arts (Upcoming symposium) (New York)

INSTRUMENTS OF PASSION: MUSIC, PAINTING, AND THE CONTEST OF THE ARTS: A SUMPOSIUM

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART / COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

6 FEBRUARY 2009

NEW YORK, NY

Organized by Lydia Goehr and Klaus Krüger

The program is a collaboration among The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,

Columbia University, New York, and, Freie Universität, Berlin

TIMES AND PLACES

Friday, February 6, 2009

11:00 a.m.–4:45 p.m.

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium,

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1000 Fifth Avenue

New York

[Free with Museum admission; reservations and tickets are not required. For more information, please email lectures@metmuseum.org, consult the Met’s online Calendar at www.metmuseum.org, or call (212) 396-5460. ]

Saturday, February 7, 2009

9:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.

Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America,

Columbia University

1161 Amsterdam Avenue at 116th Street

New York

Free; for more information, please call (212) 854-3665.

THE PROGRAM

Friday, February 6: 11:00 a.m.–4:45 p.m.

11:00–11:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Lydia Goehr, Philosophy, Columbia University

Andrea Bayer, Department of European Paintings and interim head of Education, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

The End of the Contest: On Philosophy, Painting, and Photography in the History of Modernism, Arthur C. Danto, Philosophy, Columbia University

Introduced by Jonathan Gilmore, Philosophy, Yale University

12:15–1:15 p.m.

Watteau and the Contest between Melpomene and Thalia, Georgia J. Cowart, Music, Case Western Reserve University

Introduced by Ellen Rosand, Music, Yale University

break for lunch

2:30–3:30 p.m.

King David’s Harp, Beckmesser’s Lute: Musical Instruments and the Instrumentality of Painting, Lydia Goehr, Philosophy, Columbia University

Introduced by Christopher S. Wood, History of Art, Yale University

3:30–4:30 p.m.

“Most musical of mourners, weep again!”, David Rosand, Art History, Columbia University

Introduced by Alexander Nagel, Art History, New York University

Saturday, February 7: 9:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.

9:30–10:30 a.m.

The Masked Singer: The Auditory Perception of Beauty in renaissance Italy, Giuseppe Gerbino, Music, Columbia University

Chair: Susan Boynton, Music, Columbia University

10:30–11:30 a.m.

Marsia’s Lament: Animating the Contest of Marsyas and Apollo in Barberini Rome, Wendy Heller, Music, Princeton University

Chair: Christoph Menke, Philosophy, Goethe Universität Frankfurt

break

12:00–1:00 p.m.

Athene and Marsyas: Two Bodies of Beauty and Music, Gertrud Koch, Film Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin

Chair: Gregg Horowitz, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

break for lunch

2:00–3:00 p.m.

“Mi manca la voce”: Silent Music in Balzac’s Novellas, John T. Hamilton, Comparative Literature and German, New York University

Chair: Walter Frisch, Music, Columbia University

3:00–4:00 p.m.

“The Natural Instrument of the Voice”: Apollo, Marsyas, and Andrea Sacchi’s Portrait of the Soprano, Marc’Antonio Pasqualini, David E. Cohen, Music, Columbia University

Chair: Tim Barringer, History of Art, Yale University

break

4:30–5:30 p.m.

Painted Sounds—Imaginary Music (On Giorgione, Savoldo, and Caravaggio), Klaus Krüger, Art History, Freie Universität, Berlin

Chair: Lydia Goehr, Philosophy, Columbia University

7:00 p.m.

PERFORMANCE of J. S. BACH’S Cantata BWV 201 Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde. The Contest between Phoebus and Pan, with singers and instrumentalists associated with Columbia University. Introduced by Elaine Sisman, Music, Columbia University.

Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University

1161 Amsterdam Avenue at 116th Street, New York

Entry to the concert is free for students with Columbia University ID; otherwise $10 or donation. Tickets are not required.

We are grateful to the following sponsors and supporters:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Freie Universität, Berlin: “Languages of Emotion,” Cluster of Excellence

Columbia University: Arts Initiative, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Department of Music, Department of Philosophy, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Music Performance Program, School of the Arts

[Education, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Avenue at 82nd street New York, NY 10028-0198 www.metmuseum.org]

Genius without Borders: A Symposium in Honor of the Genius of Ray Charles (Chicago)

GENIUS WITHOUT BORDERS: A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF THE GENIUS RAY CHARLES
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO
7 - 8 MARCH 2009

Presented by the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago: paper sessions, lecture-demonstrations, and panel discussions on Ray Charles’s compositions, musical influences, life, and legacy

Join keynote speaker David Ritz, scholars and authors James Austin, Stanley Crouch, Fredara Hadley, Tammy Kernodle, and Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., as well as musicians who were members of Charles’s band, including Marcus Belgrave (trumpet), John Bryant (drums), Leroy Cooper (former head of the Ray Charles Orchestra), and Dr. Mable John (former Raelette and Charles’s pastor). Ray Charles Enterprises is collaborating with the CBMR to create a small exhibit of select Charles memorabilia.

The event is sponsored by Mesirow Financial, The Palmer House Hilton Hotel, and U.S. Cellular.

For a preliminary program, schedule, venues, lodging, and registration and ticket information, please visit www.colum.edu/cbmr/raycharles2009/.

CFP: Echo Conference: Music and Humor (UCLA)

2009 ECHO CONFERENCE: MUSIC AND HUMOUR
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
5 - 6 JUNE 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Submission deadline: February 27, 2009
Keynote Speaker: Andrew Dell’Antonio
University of Texas, Austin

From bawdy troubadour songs to Haydn’s string quartets, from comic opera to Monty Python sketches, music has been used as a vehicle for comedic expression in vastly different settings and for various purposes. There are many possible avenues of inquiry on this issue, including investigations of irony, parody, satire, camp, puns, and other perhaps less tasteful form of comic relief.

Echo: a music-centered journal is pleased to announce its fourth annual conference, "Music and Humor," to be held at UCLA on June 5-6, 2009. Scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit proposals for papers on this theme. Submissions must be received by February 27th and may be sent electronically to echoconf at ucla.edu (please put "Echo Conference Submission" and your last name in the subject line).

Please visit http://www.echo.ucla.edu/Volume8-Issue1/conference09.html for full information.

CFP: Music and the Moving Image (NYU)

MUSIC AND THE MOVING IMAGE IV CONFERENCE
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
29 - 31 MAY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The fourth annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, iPod, computer, video games, and interactive performances) through paper presentations and plenary sessions. This year two keynote addresses, Philip Tagg, Univ. of Montreal (Kojak: 50 Seconds of Television Music; Ten Little Title Tunes) and Caryl Flinn, Univ. of Arizona (Strains of Utopia; New German Cinema) will be presented. In addition, a screening of Peggy Stern's Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood with a discussion about animated films will be a featured part of the Saturday evening program. Streaming video versions of presentations will be available only at NYU from May 29 - June 1, 2009. Accepted papers will be considered for inclusion in the peer-reviewed online journal Music and the Moving Image: http://mmi.press.uiuc.edu/

Abstracts or synopses of papers (250 words) should be submitted to: Dr. Ron Sadoff, chair of the program committee, by no later than Dec. 15, 2008.

E-mail ron.sadoff at nyu.edu for more information.
Ron Sadoff, New York University 35 West 4th St Rm 777, New York, NY, 10012

Conference fee (May 29, 30, 31): $150.00 - Students: $75.00, Housing Available

Web site: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/scoring/conference/

CFP: Principles of Music Composing - Orchestra as Phenomenon (Lithuania)

9TH INTERNATIONAL MUSIC THEORY CONFERENCE: PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC COMPOSING - ORCHESTRA AS PHENOMENON
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA
22 - 24 APRIL 2009

Sponsored by the Lithuanian Composers’ Union, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

--Orchestral conceptions:
a) Approach of musicology to orchestra and orchestral nature (conceptions, notions, terminology);
b) Possibility for the definition of orchestra (orchestra – ensemble – soloist).

--Orchestra as a cultural tradition:
a) Orchestras of world regions (symphonic, gamelan, gagaku, ‘ethno‘, etc.);
b) Specific features of orchestral playing;
c) Possibilities for symbiosis of orchestral cultural types.

--Historical signs in the evolution of orchestra (orchestral school, style, genre, work, arrangement, etc.).

--Orchestra in the field of researches in acoustics and psychological perception.

--Functional and timbre possibilities of orchestra (orchestral structure, instruments, synthesis of timbres, etc.).

--Principles of orchestral thinking in contemporary music.

Paper proposals (abstract together with a short biography) should be sent to Mr. Marius Baranauskas: mbaranaus at yahoo.com . The abstract must not exceed 500 words. The duration of papers will be limited to 20 minutes, leaving 10 minutes for questions and discussions. Please indicate whether your proposal belongs to one or more of the conference sub themes.

The deadline for proposal submissions is March 8, 2009. The proposals will be reviewed by members of the organizing committee and all applicants will be notified of the outcome in the middle of March 2009.

The main language of the conference is English.

The material of the conference – abstracts and papers will be published.

For more information about the conference contact: Lithuanian Composers’ Union, Mickeviciaus 29, LT-08117 Vilnius, Lithuania. Coordinator of the conference Marius Baranauskas: mbaranaus at yahoo.com , tel. +37068302267. www.mxl.lt

CFP: Bowed String Instruments in Traditional Cultures (SOAS)

3rd BIENNIAL LONDON FIDDLE CONFERENCE: "BOWED STRING INSTRUMENTS IN TRADITIONAL CULTURES"
SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES (SOAS), LONDON
20 - 22 FEBRUARY 2009

WEBSITE: www.geocities.com/FiddleConference2009

The LONDON FIDDLE CONFERENCE AT SOAS is a biennial event in a rolling programme of research seminars and performance workshops. We cover all aspects of bowed string instruments in popular culture worldwide.

DEFINITION: The violin has its origins in Central Asian bowed string instruments that have moved around the world, developing in many different ways. Because of the importance of the violin in European culture, it has been re-exported and absorbed by other cultural traditions, often alongside indigenous string instruments. We are interested in exploring fiddlesof all types, and relationships and contrasts between instruments of the violin type and indigenous bowed string instruments.

This is an open conference, open to the general public.

There will be a CONCERT AND CEILIDH SESSION on the night of Friday 20th February featuring the combined forces of the Cambridge University Ceilidh Band and the SOAS Ceilidh Band. The conference will begin on Friday afternoon 20th February with a guided tour visit to the wonderful INSTRUMENT COLLECTION at the Horniman Museum in South London.

Early arrivers may also be interested in Colin Dunne's show OUT OF TIME at the Barbican on Thursday 19 February. This presents a dancer's view of the world of Irish traditional dance.

Our research interests address the following broad themes:

- The violin beyond the Western orchestra: Papers are invited that explore the use of fiddles in European and American folk traditions, in Middle Eastern and Indian music ensembles, and in contemporary practice.

- Fiddles through the world: Papers are invited that explore the role of bowed string instruments, their diversity, and their history. We include discussion of two-string and three-string fiddles in the Middle East, East and Southeast Asia, Islamic Africa and elsewhere.

- Diffusion and development: Papers are invited that explore the organology of violins and fiddles, particularly in a cross-cultural context. We also welcome presentations that look at historical diffusion and the socio-cultural reasons why particular instrument versions have become favoured in specific cultural traditions.

- Making instruments: Papers are invited that explore instrument construction.

Makers are invited to discuss their own construction methods and developments. We also welcome presentations that demonstrate the acoustic properties of instruments.

The above list is not exclusive, and researchers are encouraged to present papers that fall outside of these topic areas.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Full Rate £30 - Day Rate £12
Concessions £10 - Day Rate £5

If you cannot afford to pay, let us know and we shall see what can be done. Note: There is no registration charge for people presenting papers and workshops.


PROPOSALS OF PAPERS
If you wish to register to attend the conference, or wish to present a paper, please send contact details to the organiser at the address below.

Ed Emery
[Fiddle Conference]
Peterhouse,
Cambridge CB2 1RD

E-mail: ed.emery [@] thefreeuniversity.net

PLEASE NOTE: This weekend will also feature the Saturday Night Concert of the not-to-be-missed LONDON FIDDLE CONVENTION, to be held at Cecil Sharp House.

The London Fiddle Conference is an independent initiative organised with the collaboration of the SOAS Department of Music.

WEBSITE OF THE 2009 CONFERENCE:
www.geocities.com/FiddleConference2009

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.

CFP: The Nu-Romantic: Revealing the Developing Artistic Milieu in Film, Theatre & Television (Reading)

THE NU-ROMANTIC: REVEALING THE DEVELOPING ARTISTIC MILIEU IN FILM, THEATRE AND TELEVISION

UNIVERSITY OF READING

17 APRIL 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Romanticism was a cultural landscape characterised by the eternal oscillation between a ‘modern’ enthusiasm that had failed and a ‘postmodern’ irony that would soon falter. Now, years later, another scene marked by oscillations is taking shape.

Under the name of Nu-Romanticism (‘naked’ Romanticism) JAM 2009 aims to initiate a mapping of this evolving landscape. It offers a chance to explore and define the new forms of thought, conception and creation that follow the established pattern of Romanticism. We look to current theory and critical practice within Film, Theatre and Television to reveal new forms of oscillation, be they between Aesthetic and Narrative, between Spectatorship and Performativity, between the Sublime and melancholy, hope and failure.

JAM 2009, the seventh annual conference for postgraduates run by postgraduates at the Department of Film, Theatre & Television, welcomes proposals that investigate, question or put pressure on the notion of a re-emerging Romanticism within film, theatre and television. We invite postgraduates to consider the concept of a new or renewed Romanticism in relation to the following areas of discussion:

• Aesthetics

• Genre

• Form vis-à-vis Content

• Narrative

• Space, Place and Landscape

• Representation

• Spectatorship and Social Relevance

• Performance and Performativity

• Medium Specificity

• Postgraduate Practice

• New Technologies

CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: Friday 30th January 2009 Please send a 250-word proposal and a 100-word biographical note to Tim Vermeulen, Harper Ray and Reina-Marie Loader at jam2009@rdg.ac.uk

Journeys Across Media (JAM) is an annual one-day interdisciplinary conference organised by and for postgraduate students. It provides a discussion forum for current and developing research in film, theatre, television and ‘new media’. Previous delegates have welcomed the opportunity to gain experience of presenting their work, at different stages of development, in the active, friendly and supportive research environment of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. Non-presenting delegates are also very welcome. Supported by the Standing Committee of University Drama Departments (SCUDD) and the Graduate School in Arts and Humanities, University of Reading.

Citation, Intextexuality, Memory in the Middle Ages (Upcoming Conf, Exeter)

CITATION, INTERTEXTUALITY, MEMORY IN THE MIDDLE AGES: TEXT, MUSIC, IMAGE

An international and interdisciplinary conference

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES

29 - 30 JANUARY 2009

Registration deadline: 17 December 2008

Just as our own society delights in exploiting citation, quotation, and allusion in an array of different contexts, medieval writers, artists, and composers were intensely aware of the vast potential for such external references to enrich their works. By evoking canonical texts or their producers from the distant or the more recent past -- whether from Classical antiquity, the sacred tradition, or recent vernacular contexts -- medieval authors demonstrated their respect for tradition while impressing on their own work the stamp of authority. Recent books on memory in the Middle Ages are stimulating the interest of scholars across a range of disciplines. The theme of intertextuality continues to attract attention, especially that of literary scholars but equally scholars from other disciplines concerned with the Middle Ages, including historians, art historians and musicologists. The conference that will be held in Exeter on 29-30th January 2009 locates itself within this attempt to stimulate further scrutiny of this theme from broad disciplinary and chronological perspectives.

The programme of the conference is available on line at the web address:

http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/medievalstudies/projects/citation_conference.shtml

CFP: Conference on Music and Emotion (Durham)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC AND EMOTION
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
31 AUGUST - 3 SEPTEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference is conceived around four key-note panels representing the disciplines of music theory, philosophy, psychology and sonic arts. In addition, we invite papers on any aspect of emotion research, including:

* new tools for analysing emotion in musical structure
* theories of expression, arousal, contagion, and representation
* categorical, dimensional, circumplex, and prototype models
* aesthetic psychology and the role of empirical evidence
* statistical and probabilistic models, including theories of expectation and markedness
* measuring physiological change, brain imaging, and analysis of gesture and whole-body movement
* mechanisms of induction, transmission, and evaluation
* cross-modality and metaphor
* labelling versus dynamic modelling
* cross-cultural and trans-historical differences and universals
* musical emotion in social context
* classical versus evolutionary perspectives
* rhetoric, figurality, and the passions
* how emotion is mediated through musical form, material, timbre, and voice

Proposals (up to 200 words) for papers of around 20 minutes' duration should be sent by email to Jo Buckley (jo.buckley@durham.ac.uk) by 1st March 2009.
Further details can be found at www.dur.ac.uk/music.emotion/.

CFP: Space in Medieval France (Sorbonne)

SPACE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE
6TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITE' DE PARIS I (SORBONNE), FRANCE
24 - 26 JUNE 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline for Submissions: 1 February 2009
Keynote speakers: Dominique Iogna-Prat and Philippe Plagnieux

The International Medieval Society of Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions for its 2009 Symposium organized around the theme of space in medieval France.

Questions about ideas of space have recently invigorated the field of medieval studies, challenging prevailing Modernist views that the concept of space only existed from the Renaissance onward. The Sorbonne's collection Constructions de l'espace au Moyen Age: pratiques et représentations (2007) showcases recent historical research on spatiality, particularly regarding geographical limits and boundaries, as well as the role of space in social relations and practices, while Sarah Kay's Place of Thought (2007) re-evaluates the complexity of the locus communis from a literary perspective. These publications complement ongoing investigations by historians of visual culture into the dynamic meanings, uses and phenomenologies of medieval space.

This symposium aims to generate an interdisciplinary forum on space in medieval France between c. 500 and c. 1500 that will enrich these ongoing debates and our knowledge of space in the Middle Ages by approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives. Papers should address France, Francia or post-Roman Gaul in some way, but they need
not be exclusively limited to this geographic area.

We encourage papers on the following topics, as well as papers for open sessions in all disciplines:
• Public and private space
• Walls, boundaries, limits
• The shape of space in medieval art, architecture, and music
• Space or place?
• Astronomy
• Sacred and profane space
• Commercial space
• Performance and the use of space
• Space and identity in the medieval city

Abstracts in French or English of 300 words or less for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed to contact@ims-paris.org no later than 1 February 2009. In addition to the abstract, please submit full contact information, a CV and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual equipment required for your presentation.

The deadline for abstract submission is 1 February 2009. The IMS will review submissions and respond via e-mail by 15 February 2009. Titles of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS web site. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for students).

The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (French/English) organization founded to serve as a centre for medievalists who research, work, study, or travel to France. For more information about the IMS and the schedule of last year's Symposium, please see our website: www.ims-paris.org.

Music and Machines IX: Resistant Material (Upcoming conference, Newcastle)

MUSIC AND MACHINES IX: RESISTANT MATERIAL

NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY

15 -1 6 JANUARY 2009

The "International Centre for Music Studies" (ICMuS) and "Culture Lab" at Newcastle University announce a two-day symposium on resistant materials in musical creativity as part of the "Music and Machines" research series.

Musical practices encounter many sites of resistance/resistivity
- the engagement with or overcoming of physiological restrictions
- the technological limitations of instruments, voices, computer systems, and other performance media
- constraints imposed by musico-theoretical systems such as "common practice" tonality and other formalistic issues
- the unpredictability and/or ambiguity of some of the newer creative tools such as interactive software, circuit-bending or distributed performance systems
- the critical dissonances that must be negotiated in much interdisciplinary collaboration

Developing out of a series of research events that began in 2004, "Music and Machines IX: Resistant Material" pulls together some of the different ways that contemporary musicians and theorists have thematized or had to work through the issue of resistant materials.
As well as core members of the CETL-funded ICMuS research grouping in Postvernacular Music, the symposium will include guest presenters from Glasgow Caledonian University, Royal Conservatory in The Hague, University of East Anglia, Edinburgh University, Culture Lab
Newcastle, and the Psychology and Philosophy departments at Newcastle University.

Sessions will take the form of short presentations by invited presenters, followed by round table discussions, with members of "the audience" actively encouraged to become involved. Session
presentations will include position statements, project reports, theoretical perspectives, and live performances. There are also live concerts each evening held in Culture Lab.

Participants will include
Paul Bell (ICMuS - Culture Lab)
David Clarke (ICMuS)
John Ferguson (ICMuS - Culture Lab)
Bennett Hogg (ICMuS)
Lars Iyer (Philosophy, Newcastle)
Raymond MacDonald (Psychology, Glasgow)
Peter Nelson (Music, Edinburgh University)
Sally Jane Norman (Culture Lab, Newcastle)
Joel Ryan (Royal Conservatory in The Hague)
Simon Waters (UEA)
Nick Williams (ICMuS - Culture Lab)
Graeme Wilson (Psychology, Newcastle)

Topics covered will include turntablism in free improvisation, learning Indian Classical Music, ambiguity and indeterminacy in bent circuits, modelling resistivity in virtual environments, formalism and subjectivity, the instrument in free improvisation, philosophical and cultural-theoretical perspectives on ideas of resistance in musical materials, and issues raised by the development of interfaces between musical performers and digital technologies.

A conference fee of £10 to cover coffee and tea is payable to Culture Lab, Newcastle. For registration please contact Carine Aguet at carine.aguet@ncl.ac.uk

For further information please contact Dr. Bennett Hogg at bennett.hogg@ncl.ac.uk

Details of registration procedures and a more detailed outline of the event will be posted on the "Culture Lab, Newcastle" website in due course. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab

CFP: Performa: Conference on Performance Studies (Portugal)

PERFORMA: CONFERENCE ON PERFORMANCE STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO (PORTUGAL)

14 -1 6 MAY 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal) will host, from the 14th to the 16th of May 2009, PERFORMA, a conference on performance studies.
The keynote speaker will be Prof. Bruno Nettl, from University of Illinois
Submissions are invited on any aspect of performance studies such as the psychology of performance, philosophy and performance, music pedagogy, musicology, ethnomusicology, analysis, and improvisation.

We welcome abstracts of a maximum of 250 words for:
Paper presentations: Papers should last a maximum of 20 minutes in length, including all audio/visual illustrations, plus 10 minutes for questions.
Pre-formed Panels: Please submit abstracts with each named speaker and their institutional affiliation. Panels should last 1 hour and 30 minutes, including all audio/visual illustrations and time for questions.
Lecture Recitals: should last 45 minutes, including all audio/visual illustrations and time for questions. Proposal submissions should be accompanied by a short curriculum of the presenter.
Workshops: abstracts should include information about duration of the workshop.
Poster presentations

The submission deadline is January 25th, 2009. Abstracts should be sent to performa at ca.ua.pt
Abstracts will be reviewed by a panel, and presenters will be advised as to their acceptance or otherwise by February 20th, 2009.

Conference site: http://performa.web.ua.pt/

CFP/CFC: Music and Memory (Univ Texas at Austin)

MUSIC AND MEMORY
9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
7 MARCH 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS/CALL FOR COMPOSITIONS/SCORES

GAMMA-UT, the Graduate Association of Music and Musicians at UT, announces its ninth annual conference, “Music and Memory,” to be held on Saturday, March 7th, 2009 at The University of Texas at Austin. Graduate students from the areas of music theory, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance will meet to share their research and composers will present their works in a concert to be held that evening.

This year’s keynote speaker is Aaron Fox. Dr. Fox is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at Columbia University, where he is also chair of the Department of Music. His publications include the 2004 book Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture (Duke University Press) as well as articles on country music, music/language relationships, and working-class culture. Dr. Fox is currently working on a musical heritage repatriation project of field recordings with the Iñupiat community of Barrow, Alaska.

For more information, please visit our website at http://gammaut.music.utexas.edu.

Call for Papers

GAMMA-UT is soliciting student papers in the areas of music theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology. Papers may deal with any aspect of music research and analysis, particularly those topics that relate to the theme of “Music and Memory.” Prospective presenters should submit an abstract of 250 words or less to gammaut@mail.music.utexas.edu by Thursday, January 1st, 2009. Please include your name, email address, mailing address, institutional affiliation and student status. Papers are to be approximately twenty minutes in length and will be followed by a ten-minute question session. Applicants will be notified of the program committee’s decision via e-mail by Sunday, February 1st, 2009.

Questions can be directed to the conference chair Kim Kattari via email: gammaut@mail.music.utexas.edu

CFP: International Conference on Music Performance Analysis (Lucerne)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
LUCERNE (SWITZERLAND)
1 - 2 JULY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts organizes a conference in the field of music
performance analysis. The conference will take place during the annual meeting of the
“International Association of Schools of Jazz” in Lucerne, and it will attract a mixed audience of
jazz students/teachers and researchers in the field of performance. The conference consists of two symposia:

Symposium 1: Perspectives on ‘Body & Soul’
Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 13:30-18:30
‘Body & Soul’ (1930) is famed to be the most recorded American popular song of all time: In 1980, Gary Giddins counted nearly 3000 recorded versions of the song, and the three decades since then have added considerably to this impressive number. The attraction of this intricate melody with its harmonically surprising bridge doesn’t seem to fade away. The papers of the symposium analyse recorded performances of the tune; they describe individual responses of musicians and singers to the composition, the lyrics and to earlier renditions of ‘Body & Soul’.

Symposium 2: Methods of music performance analysis
Thursday, July 2, 2009, 09:00-16:30
The analysis of music performance is a relatively new field in music research, and the methods of
analysis are still in an experimental stage. The papers of this symposium present innovative
analytical procedures and demonstrate the scope and limit of these methods by applying them to
concrete musical examples of different genres (examples of both popular and classical music are
welcome).

Call for papers
Researchers and musicians, who are interested to contribute a paper, send their abstract of approximately 400 words to Olivier Senn (olivier.senn@hslu.ch) before December 14, 2008. The
presentations (30’ each) and discussions will be held in English. All presented papers will be
published within the conference proceedings.

CFP: American Independent Cinema: Past, Present, and Future (Liverpool)

AMERICAN INDEPENDENT CINEMA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
LIVERPOOL, UK
8 - 10 MAY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

An international conference co-organised by Claire Molloy (Liverpool John Moores University) and Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool).

This is an updated call for papers. We are delighted to announce that the confirmed keynote speakers at this conference will be: Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University), Geoff King (Brunel University), Peter Kramer (University of East Anglia), Steve Neale (University of Exeter) Janet Staiger (University of Texas at Austin).

In recent years the field of American independent cinema has enjoyed particular critical attention. The publication of a number of studies on the subject and the development of courses that examine American independent cinema as a separate object of study from mainstream Hollywood cinema has demonstrated that American independent cinema is a distinct discursive category and therefore deserves to be explored in depth.

Despite the recent critical activity, however, there is still very little actual research undertaken in the field. To this day, most of the work on American independent cinema has focused on the period ranging from the 1960s to contemporary times while the lion's share of the critics' attention has gone to a relatively small number of canonical independent filmmakers or to certain paradigmatic independent films. Although the establishment of canons and paradigms in independent cinema has been extremely useful, especially because it identified the field as worthy of scholarly attention, it also delimited the field substantially.

This conference wants to rethink American cinema through the concept of 'independence' and the range of definitions that such a term encompasses. As such, this conference hopes to attract research in the field that extends far beyond conventional critical approaches that tend to focus on key filmmakers, often starting from Cassavetes and moving to more recent examples, and instead look at American cinema in general with a view of questioning particular practices while also offering a number of case studies from various historical moments. Topics might include but are certainly not limited to:

* cinema at Poverty Row
* independent filmmaking within the "confines" of the studio system
* exploitation filmmaking
* ethnic filmmaking
* independent producers/distributors
* classics divisions vs contemporary independents
* the impact of technological change on independent filmmaking
* independent film financing, marketing, advertising and publicity
* institutionalising independence

Whilst we will consider papers that deal with any aspect of independence, we particularly welcome papers that seek to revise existing histories of American cinema, especially by re-opening cases of films, filmmakers and companies that hitherto have been considered as part of an increasingly loosely defined mainstream Hollywood. One of the key aims of this conference is to chart the past, present and future modes of film practice in the independent sector and to account for the plurality of forms and guises in which independent filmmaking has manifested in the United States. In this respect we hope the conference will facilitate a much needed re-evaluation of American cinema under the rubric of independence.

Please send proposals of up to 300 words to both C.Molloy@ljmu.ac.uk and Y.Tzioumakis@liverpool.ac.uk

Deadline for submission of proposals is Friday 12 December 2008.