CFP: CIM10 Nature versus Culture (University of Sheffield)

CIM10 NATURE VERSUS CULTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
21 - 24 JULY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Conferences on Interdisciplinary Musicology promote collaborations between sciences and humanities, between theory and practice, as well as interdisciplinary combinations that are new, unusual, creative, or otherwise especially promising. CIM10 will focus on the relationship between nature and culture in musical behaviour, thinking and sound.

Deadline for abstract submission: 15th of September 2009
E-mail submissions to: CIM10 at sheffield.ac.uk

Further information from: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cim10/index.html

Zombomodernism: the Ends of Practice-as-research (CSSD, London)

ZOMBOMODERNISM: THE ENDS OF PRACTICE-AS-RESEARCH

CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

26 SEPTEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

DEADLINE EXTENDED: 6 JULY 2009

The figure of the zombie is the uncanny split par excellence: neither living nor dead, both familiar and unfamiliar. The zombie presents a unmeasurable proximal distance between the known and unknown. The zombie’s movements are human in resemblance (as is its physical form), and yet, in its single-minded determination, its constant pace, and its inability to manoeuvre around obstacles in its path, it is clearly inhuman.

Is not the condition of the zombie also the condition of the modern practice-as-research academic? That is, current PAR can be described as existing within a state of ‘Zombomodernity,’ that post-postmodern state in which the ideas are not dead, but nor are they truly alive. Practice-as-research features a similar uncanny split: is it research or is it art? And the spectacle of the modern practice-as-research academic is analogous to that of the zombie in many ways: we’re single-minded, move slowly and bang our heads against the wall over and over again.

Central School of Speech and Drama’s Research Degree students are pleased to announce a one-day interdisciplinary colloquium exploring practice-as-research from the perspective of its relationship to both professional practice and the institution, aimed at finding the antidote and liberating it from Zombomodernism or cutting its head off and putting it to rest forever. As an institution, CSSD is uniquely placed to explore these issues, being itself an uncanny hybrid of conservatoire and research institution, and this colloquium is part of the Festival of Emergent Art, a high-profile two week festival of new practice-as-research performances and presentations from PhD students, MA Performance Practices and Research students, staff and visiting artists.

We invite 20-minute papers and proposals for workshops that might interrogate the value of PAR and its contribution to new knowledge and professional practice.

What is the relationship between PaR and professional practice?

What is the relationship between PaR and the university?

Does PaR create new knowledge?

Is the university the best place to make experimental practice?

Can we imagine new ways of documenting experimental practice?

Can we imagine new ways of writing about practice?

Can we stop asking ourselves if it’s ok and just get on with it?

Submissions are invited from all researchers and postgraduate students working in theatre, drama, dance, film, puppetry and object-theatre, circus, installation, live art and visual culture. Interdisciplinary work is especially welcome, as well as submissions of experimental writing and documentation.

Please send a 250 word abstract (for papers) or proposal (for workshops)along with a brief biographical statement to colloquium organiser Broderick Chow at dick.chow@cssd.ac.uk by Monday, 6 July 2009. Please send large attachments tozombomodernism@googlemail.com Decisions will be made within three weeks. Any questions can also be directed to the colloquium organiser.

Upcoming Symposium: Acoustics and Music of British Prehistory (Cambridge)

ACOUSTICS AND MUSIC OF BRITISH PREHISTORY RESEARCH NETWORK FIRST SYMPOSIUM

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

19 JUNE 2009

The Acoustics and Music of British Prehistory is an interdisciplinary research cluster funded by the AHRC/EPSRC as part of the Science and Heritage programme. It aims to explore the intersections of music, archaeology, sound, acoustics, heritage, culture, modelling, VR, anthropology, ritual and other related topics, focusing on prehistory and British sites. It focuses (although not exclusively) on three main types of sites, open sites (such as landscapes or henges), semi-enclosed sites (such as stone circles) and enclosed sites (such as chamber tombs). Bringing together leading researchers in the field, the first public symposium is free and held in Cambridge. It aims to encourage listening as well as looking, and to explore this fascinating subject with rigour and depth.

Details at http://ambpnetwork.wordpress.com/

Pippard Lecture theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE

Directions at http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/contact/directions.php

Those arriving by car can park on Clerk Maxwell Road and walk to the main building, or they can use the Madingley Road Park & Ride. The #4 bus from the park & ride stops directly in front of the Cavendish. Unfortunately on-site parking will not be available.

Timetable:

10am Arrival and Coffee

10:30 Presentations by Ian Cross - Lithophonics in Prehistory, University of Cambridge

Aaron Watson

Paul Devereux - Natural Sound Behaviour in Archaeological Contexts

Graeme Lawson - Evidenced Acoustical Behaviours and Acoustical Space: Re-integrating Sound-tools and Landscapes in Ancient Acoustics

Seb Jouan - Arup Acoustics Glasgow

Gry Baelum Nielsen - Odeon Software and Acoustics of Roman Theatres and Odea

Sarah May - English Heritage - Reverence and a Noisy Experiment at Silbury Hill

12.45 – 1.45 Lunch

1.45 - Arnd Adje Both - Chair of the ICTM Study Group for Music Archaeology

Research Questions in the Acoustics and Music of Prehistory: A Synthesis.

2.30 – Research Question Discussion

3.30 - 4.30 Round Table Discussion

4.30 Finish

CFP: CIM10 Nature versus Culture (Sheffield)

CIM10 NATURE VERSUS CULTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK
21 - 24 JULY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Conferences on Interdisciplinary Musicology promote collaborations between sciences and humanities, between theory and practice, as well as interdisciplinary combinations that are new, unusual, creative, or otherwise especially promising. CIM10 will focus on the relationship between nature and culture in musical behaviour, thinking and sound.

With the influence of evolutionary theory, and the interpenetration of the approaches and methods of the sciences and arts, researchers from many different fields have become interested in how culture and biology shape musical phenomena. To what extent is the music that gets made (its materials and structure) a direct product of physical and biological properties? How is the experience of music governed by biological mechanisms and cultural processes?

The conference aims to bring together representatives of the arts and humanities, the sciences, and musical practice who are involved in research on culture and nature in music. Researchers from all relevant disciplines are invited to contribute theoretical, empirical and computational studies.

The following topic areas illustrate the scope of the conference theme:

• Music’s evolutionary origins
• Cross-cultural comparison of musical phenomena
• Linguistic influences on music cognition
• How culture and biology shape the phenomenal experience of musical expectation
• Biological and cultural influences on the experience of emotions with music
• Relationship between emotional experience with music and emotions in daily life
• Development of musical skills
• Musical universals and musical specializations
• Cognitive and physical constraints shaping musical materials and compositional practices

Submissions are encouraged that are related to these sub-areas or the general theme of nature versus culture

Submission details:
In keeping with the aim of CIM to promote interaction between disciplines, each submission must have at least two authors who represent different disciplines. Extended abstracts should be structured in the following seven headlines:

1. Background in the first discipline
2. Background in the second discipline
3. Aims
4. Main Contribution
5. Implications for musical practice
6. Implications for musicological interdisciplinarity
7. References

In empirical and computational contributions, the “main contribution” should include a summary of method and results. Each submitted abstract should be followed by a short biography (CV) of the (first) two authors. The whole file should not exceed 1000 words, including all headings, names of authors, their affiliations, email addresses and biographies. The preferred format of the presentation (talk or poster) should also be indicated. All submissions must address the conference theme. Abstracts should be submitted in English either as plain text or in an attached
document (MS Word). They will be reviewed anonymously by a panel of international experts.

Deadline: 15th of September 2009

E-mail submissions to: CIM10@sheffield.ac.uk

Further information from: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cim10/index.html

CIM10 is directed by:
Dr Nicola Dibben, and Dr Renee Timmers, Department of Music, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

CIM10 is presented in collaboration with the European Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), and the Society for Education, Psychology and Music Research (SEMPRE). See: www.sheffield.ac.uk/cim10/

CFP: 36th Annual Conference - Society for American Music

36TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN MUSIC
OTTAWA, CANADA
17 - 21 MARCH 2010
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

2010 Program Committee: Michael Pisani, chair; Drew Edward Davies, Robin Elliott, Larry D. Hamberlin, Mary Ingraham, Felicia M. Miyakawa, and Gillian M. Rodger

The Society for American Music invites proposals for papers, papers on one of two seminar topics (see "New Seminar Format" below), additional panels of 2-3 papers, concerts, lecture-performances, and scholarly posters for its 36th Annual Conference. The conference will be held in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) March 17-21, 2010. The submission deadline for all proposals is Monday, 15 June 2009.

In addition to proposals on the topics of the seminar panels, we welcome proposals involving all facets of musical life in the Americas and manifestations of these cultures anywhere in the world.
For this conference we especially welcome proposals addressing:
* Cultural politics and the nation: the role of federal policies, government institutions, and public organizations in the creation, performance, and reception of music
* The role of French culture in shaping North American musical life, with a focus on Quebec, but also including Acadian and Creole cultures.
* The Idea of North (to cite Glenn Gould). [Are there measurable aspects of an identifiable "Northern culture" in music, comparable to the "U.S.Western" or "Southern" traditions?]
* Cross-border musical relations in the Americas (affecting musicians, institutions, organizations, cultural policies, etc.)
* The impact of immigration on musical life in the United States and Canada
* Music in Canada, including classical, popular, aboriginal, and traditional music (considered either in isolation or in contact with each other)

Guidelines:
Presenters are required to register for the entire conference. The committee encourages proposals from those who did not present at the 2009 Denver meeting, but all proposals will be judged primarily on merit. With the exception of concerts or lecture-performance with
accompanying audio-visual materials, all proposals must be submitted electronically using the online submission form (see below).

Proposers for all except lecture-recitals must specify whether the proposal is for 1) paper, 2) poster, or 3) either presentation format, the latter to be determined by the Program Committee as it builds sessions. Individual or joint papers should be no longer than twenty minutes. Lecture-performances should be no longer than thirty minutes. For complete session proposals, the organizer should include an additional statement explaining the rationale for the session, in addition to abstracts for each paper.

New Seminar Format
Of the proposals submitted in January, 2009, the two selected by the program committee for the 2010 conference in Ottawa will be:
1)The Art of Association': Exploring Institutions as Agents of American Music in Theory and Practice and
2)Nineteenth-Century American Music Studies: The State of the Field in .

Unlike regular SAM sessions, in which papers are read, papers for the conference seminars will be posted at a password-protected location in advance of the conference, where they may be read by all interested SAM members. The bulk of the conference session will be devoted to
discussion of the papers as they relate to the general theme. Since papers will be posted electronically on the web, we would like to encourage materials that are recently published or "in press" as one kind of submission that would be appropriate for the seminar structure. These papers may be full articles, up to 20 pages, and should include notes, examples (where relevant), and bibliography. All proposals should be submitted in the usual way by the regular SAM
deadline, except that the specific seminar topic should be clearly specified. Unless the author specifies otherwise, abstracts not accepted for either of the two seminars will be considered by the program committee for one of the regular sessions.

Although papers for the seminars will not be "read" in the traditional sense, the act of participating in the seminar as a presenter and defending the ideas of one's paper constitutes the same level of participation in an academic conference as would a normal paper. For this reason, those submitting abstracts toward a seminar cannot also submit toward a regular session.

Research Poster Sessions
The poster format provides an opportunity for SAM members to meet informally with authors and discuss research. Each author attends his/her respective 90-minute session, distributes abstracts, and answers questions. Supporting sound and/or video examples (on personal computers and utilizing battery, rather than AC power) will be coordinated with other presenters once sessions have been formed by the Program Committee. Further poster guidelines may be found at Poster Info.

Interest Groups Interest Groups with a guaranteed slot for 2010 are requested to convey a brief description of their plans to the Program Committee using the online submission system by June 15, if possible. To ensure proper scheduling and room assignments, Groups should indicate by this date whether they would prefer a lunchtime slot (12:45-1:45) or a longer evening session. Please note that all the information that will appear in the conference program book (participant names, titles, 100-word abstract) must be submitted not later than August 5. Interest Groups without a guaranteed slot for 2010 may submit panel proposals via the online submission system if they wish, but acceptance or rejection of these proposals will be at the discretion of the Program Committee. All Interest Group submissions (guaranteed or not) should use the "Panel" option below.

INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS:
* 250-word proposal
* 100-word abstract suitable for publication in the conference program (.txt or .rtf format)
* Audio and visual needs selected from the following list only: CD and audiocassette player, overhead projector, VHS/DVD player, LCD projector. Due to logistics and the high cost of renting this equipment, we cannot accommodate AV changes once a proposal is accepted.
* Proposer's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address, and institutional affiliation or city of residence
* Specify whether you are a student (and therefore eligible for certain student grants or awards)

For Lecture-Performances please include the above-mentioned materials, plus:
* Seven copies of a recording (CD and DVD preferred, but cassette or VHS tapes also accepted)
* An addressed, stamped mailer if you would like the recordings returned
* A list of special needs (e.g., piano, music stand, space for dance demonstration, choral risers)

All materials must be electronically dated-stamped (online submission) or postmarked (mail submission) by 15 June 2009.

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Michael Pisani
at mipisani@vassar.edu. Postal submissions should be addressed to: Michael Pisani, SAM 2010 Program Committee Chair, Vassar College, Box 595, Poughkeepsie, New York, 12604-0595

CFP: Regulated Liberties: Negotiating Freedom in Art, Culture and Media (Turku, Finland)

REGULATED LIBERTIES: NEGOTIATING FREEDOM IN ART, CULTURE AND MEDIA
RETHINKING ART STUDIES (REARS) CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF TURKU, FINLAND
20 - 22 AUGUST 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS

Freedom is a heavily charged notion with a vast conceptual width. Yet, the question of freedom and its regulation remains inadequately studied in the field of art, culture and media. Research has often relied conceptually on dichotomies and concentrated on revealing different kinds of power structures and forms of oppression, which tends to simplify the complex nature of Freedom and constraint. The conference is dedicated to rethinking cultural power in new inventive ways not based on a dichotomous logic of domination and resistance. The concept of "regulated liberties" denotes a more complex relationship of negotiation between the dominant and its subjects.

The aim of the conference is to relate art, culture and media to questions concerning freedom, emancipation and resistance. The overall conference topic disperses on the theoretical fields of subjectivity, social structures, and representation. The conference provides a forum for the development of innovative and creative research concerning temporal/spatial dimensions, genres and identity production in art, culture and media.

It is with great regret that we have to inform you of the recent passing of one of our keynote speakers, Professor Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Professor Sedgwick passed away on April 12th in New York. In the wake of this loss we have the honour of welcoming two replacing keynote speakers, philosopher and political theorist Brian Massumi and artist, theorist and psychoanalyst Bracha L. Ettinger. In light of these changes, we are extending our call for papers to enable the
participation of those researchers who are inspired by the new keynote speakers. There is room for a limited number of new papers and panels.

*Keynote speakers:*

* Angela McRobbie (The Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
* Brian Massumi (Department of Communication, University of Montréal, Canada)
* Bracha L. Ettinger (Media & Communications, European Graduate School, Switzerland)
* Colin B. Grant (The Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK)
* Marianne Liljeström (The School of Art Studies, University of Turku, Finland)
* Altti Kuusamo (The School of Art Studies, University of Turku, Finland)

*Proposals for panels and individual papers:*

The conference organizing committee invites proposals for panels and individual papers. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:

* How have the concepts of freedom and emancipation been employed in the context of art, culture and media?
* In what ways do culture and art regulate conduct in (neo)liberal regimes and vice versa?
* How do culturally sanctioned representations impose hegemonic identities?
* In what ways should genres be (re)thought in art? Are they regulating regimes?
* Under what circumstances does resistance take place, and is it necessarily conscious and intentional?
* In what ways are subjects produced both as objects of regulatory norms and as agents capable of resisting these norms?
* How does embodiment work as a corporeal nexus for several axis of power, as a gendered, racialised, and sexualised signifier of multiple regulatory norms?
* How could the role of institutions and economy be conceptualised in new and productive ways?

Abstracts should be sent in the following format:
(1) Title
(2) Presenter(s)
(3) Institutional affiliation
(4) Email
(5) Abstract.

Panel proposals should include:
(1) Title of the panel
(2) Name and contact information of the chair
(3) Abstracts of the presenters.

Please use your surname as the document title. Abstracts (200–300 words) for twenty-minute papers as well as proposals for 2 hour panels should be submitted as an email attachment to reglib(a)utu.fi by *May 14th 2009*. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by the end of
May 2009.

The preliminary conference programme, including already accepted papers and panels, is available: www.hum.utu.fi/regulated_liberties/ For more information, contact us at reglib(at)utu.fi.

The School of Art Studies, University of Turku, Finland, organizes the conference.

CFP: Music in Context

INTERSICIPLINARY HUMANITIES
SPECIAL ISSUE: MUSIC IN CONTEXT
Published by the Humanities Education Research Association
CALL FOR PAPERS

(Scheduled Publication: Fall, 2009)
SECOND ROUND DEADLINE, March 1, 2009

Interdisciplinary Humanities is pleased to announce a special issue entitled, “Music in Context” with Stephen Husarik as guest editor. The journal is seeking papers that present music in an interdisciplinary context with topics such as Music and Nature, Music in Compound Art Forms (e.g., opera and film), or Music and Culture. Papers that illustrate the relationships or dependency between music and other art forms and/ or studies of musical iconography are especially encouraged."

Please email articles of approximately 15 to 25 pages in length, double-spaced, in Microsoft Word or rich text format to Stephen Husarik (479-788-7555, shusarik at uafortsmith.edu ) or Lee Ann Westman (915-747-5028, lewestman at utep.edu) by March 1, 2009.

The author’s full name, mailing address and email address should appear only in a brief cover letter and all identifiable references should be removed from notes, references, or running heads to ensure anonymity during the review process

CFP: American Hungarian Educators’ Association Conference (Berkeley)

AMERICAN HUNGARIAN EDUCATORS' ASSOCIATION

34TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA USA

14 -16 MAY 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

The American Hungarian Educators’ Association (AHEA) will hold its 34th Annual Conference from May 14 – 16, 2009, at the Bechtel Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley. We welcome participation by all scholars, educators, and graduate students, devoted to the teaching, research, and dissemination of Hungarian culture, history, folklore, literature, language, fine arts, and music. Presenters need not be members of AHEA.

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers, focusing on the presenters’ individual research and findings, connected with this year’s theme, “Hungarians in the New World”

Proposals should consist of an abstract of not more than 250 words; a brief scholarly biography, including degrees, scholarly fields (50-100 words); any audio-visual requirements; and full contact information. Proposals must be submitted as an email attachment (Word only) no later than March 9, 2009, to the Program Chairs. Please use your last name as the document title, as in Smith.doc. Only one submission per author will be considered. Individual paper presentations are limited to no more than twenty minutes to allow for ten minutes of discussion following the presentation. The primary language of the conference is English; some sessions may be conducted in Hungarian, depending on the agreement of the session attendees.

Full details: http://hungaria.org/uploaded/documents/call.for.papers%202009.pdf

CFP: Music Research Forum (journal)

MUSIC RESEARCH FORUM VOLUME 24
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
CALL FOR PAPERS

Music Research Forum is currently accepting submissions from outstanding graduate students and young professionals. The postmark deadline for submissions for Volume 24 (Summer 2009) is 16 January 2009.

Music Research Forum is a peer-reviewed journal published annually by the Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Articles will be considered in any area of music scholarship, including musicology, theory, performance practice, ethnomusicology, music and culture, and criticism. Faculty are encouraged to pass this information along to their students and recent graduates.

Authors must submit three hard copies of each article to:

Brad Smith, Editor
Music Research Forum
College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
P.O. Box 210003
Cincinnati OH 45221-0003

A cover sheet listing the author's name, address, telephone number, email address, and academic affiliation (if applicable) must precede articles. Articles should be between twelve and thirty pages, word-processed on 8.5x11-inch paper. All materials, including example captions, should be double-spaced and conform to the footnote guidelines found in The Chicago Manual of Style.

For additional information: Visit us online at http://www.ccm.uc.edu/comp_theory_hist/mrf

CFP: Living Culture - Conference on Ethnographies of Culture (Leeds)

LIVING CULTURES - CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHIES OF CULTURE

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

30 - 31 MARCH 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Institute for Communications Studies (ICS) and the Media Industries Research Centre (MIRC) at The University of Leeds invites papers for a 1½-day conference.

Keynote speakers:
Professor Les Back (Professor, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London), author of The Art of Listening (2007) and New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives (1996)

Professor Georgina Born (Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Music, University of Cambridge), author of Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC (2004) and Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (1995)

Conference theme:
The ever-increasing importance of the cultural to the social brings with it a vital need to investigate the processes implicated in contemporary meaning making, symbolic consumption, production and mediation. Recent scholarship from across the social sciences has sought to take up this challenge by examining the multifariousness of cultural materials-in-use, continuities and ruptures in the production/consumption of culture, the expanded purview of cultural policy and the effects of an expanding 'cultural economy'.

Through its careful attention to the irreducibility of human experience, ethnography has revealed an enduring ability to usefully intervene in debates within these arenas, making explorations into culture and cultural practice a quasi-specialism of ethnographic study. Yet how might 21st century ethnography better attune itself to the opportunities and challenges implied by attempts to understand contemporary culture and cultural experience 'from the inside'? Indeed, what limitations or boundaries are implied by efforts to study different cultural practices through ethnography and what might this mean for ethnography's contribution to social theory?

Contributions are invited from ethnographers willing to reflect on such questions and to share the methodological, substantive and theoretical insights gleaned, as well as the problems encountered, in the course of their own ethnographies of culture.

The conference should be of interest to scholars and particularly ethnographers from within sociology and social policy, media and communications studies, cultural studies, social/cultural anthropology and other allied disciplines.
Proposal deadline: abstracts (250 words max) should be sent, by Friday 16th January 2009, to the organising committee at: email: ics-conferences@leeds.ac.uk or mail to: Dr Eleri Pound, Living Cultures Conference, Institute of Communications Studies, 16 Clarendon Place, The University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

Organising committee: Dr Mark Rimmer (convenor), Professor David Hesmondhalgh, Dr Chris Paterson, Dr Eleri Pound, Anna Zoellner, all of the Media Industries Research Centre, University of Leeds.

CFP: Heavy Metal and Gender (Cologne)

HEAVY METAL AND GENDER
UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC COLOGNE
8 - 10 OCTOBER 2009

An international conference, at the University of Music Cologne / Hochschule für Musik Köln, Germany http://www.metalandgender.de/

Heavy metal is music of men and women. But even though it generally attracts as many female as male fans today, heavy metal often emphasizes sexual differences. According to stereotypes, heavy metal is rather masculine than feminine because of its power, aggressiveness, often even ugliness, and its transgressions of cultural norms. From this perspective the under-representation of female metal musicians seems natural as much as women’s interest in metal is often considered abnormal or even inappropriate. However, research on music and gender has increasingly shown that gender roles and differences are not natural laws but complex results of socialisation, cultural mediation, and discourses which change over time.

A wide range of questions

The 40 years old heavy metal genre offers a wide range of questions about gender constructions in musical culture. Obviously, heavy metal has always been dominated by representations of masculinity. This can be identified for instance in the virtuoso playing style of the electric guitar, which is mostly regarded as a masculine instrument, in macho stage shows, warrior images, or in the almost total exclusion of female musicians in the extreme subgenre of black metal. On the other hand, there is a minority of female musicians in heavy metal, including outstanding examples as Doro and Angela Gossow, and their number increased in the past years. Metal women have developed their own images, partly in strong contrast to their male counterparts and to mainstream female images. Women’s participation in heavy metal has recently become subject of discussions in magazines, internet forums and popular DVD documentations as Sam Dunn’s “Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey”. Further, queer positions evading common heterosexual dichotomies occur in metal, too, for instance in forms of gay metal communities.
The field is wide and the challenge is: How exactly are heavy metal and gender related?

The goal of the conference

The goal of the conference is to discuss issues of heavy metal and gender from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. It aims at examining a broad variety of periods, places and subgenres of heavy metal culture and any of its parts including song structures, lyrics, performance practices, visual representations, positions of musicians and fans, local and global scenes, critical and scholarly discourse.
Heavy metal studies as well as gender studies have improved their fields of research and methodology in recent years. Thus it is to be expected that an interdisciplinary discussion of heavy metal and gender today will lead to innovative impulses for research and bring forth new and unexpected results.
It will be the first scholarly conference on heavy metal in Germany and the first metal conference world-wide, which focuses on issues of gender.

Call for Papers

We welcome contributions from the broadest spectrum: Musicology, Gender studies, Cultural studies, Sociology, Literary studies, Media studies etc. The conference language is English.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to us by Friday 31st October 2008.
Kindly submit abstracts to:

Dr. Florian Heesch
History | Herstory
University of Music Cologne
Email: heesch(at)mhs-koeln.de

CFP: Music and Migration, University of Southampton

MUSIC AND MIGRATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, UNITED KINGDOM
15-17 OCTOBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference will explore the relationship between music and migration by providing new insights into the creative practices and life-stories of migrant artists across the globe. A core theme of the conference will be the motivations and experiences of migrant musicians who leave, return, stay or move beyond their localities.

Keynote speakers:
• Professor Nina Glick-Schiller, University of Manchester
• Professor Philip Bohlman, University of Chicago

Suggested themes for academic papers include (non-exhaustive list):
• Transnational musicians’ networks
• Musical experiences of diaspora
• Global and local music industries
• Return migration and ‘emergent’ cultural hubs
• Migration routes that by-pass well-established (e.g. post-colonial) pathways
• Identity Texts/musical genre/aesthetics/ multimodality
• Local and global cultural hubs
• Migrant and post-migrant cultural production
• Relationships between artistic and socio-political engagement
• Cultural policy
• Historical perspectives on musical culture transfer

We welcome submissions to present papers (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions) on the
conference themes.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to
Ulrike Meinhof uhm at soton.ac.uk; Nadia Kiwan n.kiwan at abdn.ac.uk and Marie-Pierre Gibert
marie.gibert at soton.ac.uk by December 4, 2008 including full contact details for all authors.