CFP: Jewish Music and Germany after the Holocaust (Dickinson College)

JEWISH MUSIC AND GERMANY AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
DICKINSON COLLEGE
25 - 27 FEBRUARY 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
Keynote address by Philip V. Bohlman (to be confirmed)

The postwar period in East and West Germany has been neglected by most research pertaining to Jewish music history or ethnography, perhaps with the exception of klezmer. The inattention to this specific era may be due to the common misperception that Jewish life, and subsequently its culture and music, had been extinguished. And yet with the end of World War II, Germany witnessed a reemergence of Jewish culture, actuated by a Jewish population that had returned from underground hiding, survived through mixed marriage, re-emigrated (the returnees), or survived the camps and returned, as well as by institutions and individuals who supported the performance of works by Jewish composers.

We are inviting papers based on new research that address the multi-faceted topics suggested by the colloquium’s theme while drawing upon the methodologies of ethnomusicology and/or historical musicology. We favor approaches that consider the plurality of musical responses to the post-Holocaust era and thus avoid clichés that give way to one-dimensional readings of a complex era. We encourage presentations on topics ranging from music in the postwar Displaced Persons camps to the klezmer revival beginning in the 1970s, but also compositions in response to the Holocaust and the Jewish presence in postwar German musicology, with broader reflections on the following themes:

• Perceptions of the Holocaust and Jewish music
• Trauma
• Nostalgia
• Utopia vs. Dystopia

The official language of the colloquium is English. Papers should not be longer than 25 minutes and will be discussed in roundtable following the respective panels.

Please submit proposals together with a short abstract of 300 words max. (if attachment please the following formats only: doc, rtf , or pdf) by May 1, 2010 to the following address: DickinsonColloquium2011 [AT] gmail.com

In addition to the proposed title and summary, the following information should be included:
(1) name of the lecturer, address, phone, e-mail (primary)
(2) a short biography (200 words max.)
Notification will be sent at the latest by July 15, 2010.

The colloquium is organized by Tina Frühauf (CUNY), Lily Hirsch (Cleveland State University), and Amy Wlodarski (Dickinson College), and is co-sponsored and hosted by Dickinson College. There is no registration fee. All meals during the conference and transport from Harrisburg will be provided. While accommodations must be booked by participants, special conference rates and low-cost housing options will be made available.

Dickinson College is located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, approximately 20 miles southwest of Harrisburg, which is easily accessed by plane (airport code: MDT) and Amtrak. Situated at the junction of the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-76) and Interstate 81, Carlisle is within convenient driving distance from many east coast cities. http://www.dickinson.edu/about/visit/maps-and-directions/Coming-to-Campus/

CFP: Analytical Approaches to World Music

ANALYTICAL APPROACHES TO WORLD MUSIC (AAWM)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

We are pleased to announce the formation of the new online journal Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM) dedicated to the memory of Fabrizio Pellizarro Ferreri.

AAWM seeks to expand the potential for musical analysis from a cross-cultural perspective by applying diverse theoretical and analytical concepts to repertoires outside the Western art music tradition. We welcome submissions that examine world musical traditions from a wide variety of analytical and theoretical perspectives. These may include but are not limited to: the adaptation of analytical approaches usually associated with Western art music to address various world music traditions; the use of indigenous analytical tools and strategies to characterize particular musical styles and genres; and the development of "hybrid" analytical systems and theories that integrate the aforementioned approaches. It is our hope that by bringing together analysts from a broad range of conceptual and cultural traditions, new modes of musical description and understanding may emerge that are capable of navigating the multicultural soundscape of the twenty-first century.

AAWM will be published twice a year and operate in tandem with the AAWM conference which runs on a biennial schedule. Submissions that take full advantage of our online format through the use of sound files, video files, flash animation, hyperlinks, or any other pertinent media are particularly encouraged.

AAWM employs the author-date system, as found in Chapters 16 and 17 of The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. Text should be double-spaced and written in 12-point font. Endnotes should be employed as opposed to footnotes.

All submissions are subject to blind peer review. Therefore, any identification of the author should be removed from all submitted documents and media.

AAWM will not accept submissions that have been previously published or are currently under review for publication with another journal. The inaugural issue will be published in August, 2010.

Please send submissions as Microsoft Word (*.doc) files to: aawmjournal at gmail.com

Lawrence Shuster (Editor-in-Chief)
Rob Schultz (Editor)
Kalin Kirilov (Editor)
Margaret Farrell (Editor)
Aikaterini Dimitriadou (Archivist)

CFP: 40th Ballad Conference (Netherlands)

40TH INTERNATIONAL BALLAD CONFERENCE

MEERTENS INSTITUTE & MARITIME INSTITUTE (AMSTERDAM & TERSCHELLING)

5 - 10 JULY 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 40th International Ballad Conference of the Kommission für Volksdichtung is to be held in Amsterdam and Terschelling (Netherlands). The conference is being hosted by the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam.

http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=143102%3A5-10-juli-2010&catid=15%3Aagenda&Itemid=70〈=en

Ballad conferences are open to ethnologists, (ethno-)musicologists, literary historians and other scholars. The main theme of this conference is WATER. We welcome papers on maritime, coastal and insular music cultures, shanties and other songs of sailors and fishermen, ballads about the sea, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, sources and fountains, rain and draught, beaches, banks and bridges, swimming, shipwrecks, drowning, floods, fishes, sea monsters, mermaids etc. Other possible issues include performance, literacy vs. orality, language and identity, and ballad history, preferably in connection with the main theme.

Papers will be limited to 20 minutes. Abstracts of up to 300 words, together with requests for technical equipment, should be submitted by 4 JANUARY 2010 to prof. dr Louis Peter Grijp. The author’s address, affiliation and contact details should be clearly stated, together with a brief account of the author’s career and research interests.

For further information, contact the Conference Organisers:

prof. dr Louis Peter Grijp (+ 31 20 4628536, louis.grijp at meertens.knaw.nl, drs Martine de Bruin (+31 20 4628513, martine.de.bruin@meertens. knaw.nl) and Marieke Lefeber MA (+31 20 4628579, marieke.lefeber at meertens.knaw.nl)

P.O. Box 94264, NL-1090 GG Amsterdam, Fax + 31 20 4628555

Joan Muyskenweg 25, NL-1096 CJ Amsterdam

CFP: Music, Indigeneity and Digital Media Symposium (Royal Holloway)

MUSIC, INDIGENEITY & DIGITAL MEDIA SYMPOSIUM

ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

15 - 16 APRIL 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

This symposium will focus on the role of digital media in the musical practices of indigenous peoples and in musical representations of indigeneity. It builds on the expanding scholarship on music and technology, music and the politics of indigeneity, and the impact and role of the Internet in musical and indigenous communities. Key questions that it hopes to address include:

• How significant is digital media to indigenous musical practices?

• How do musicians balance new technologies with traditional practice?

• How do digital media offer musical encounters, negotiations and critiques of (post)modernity?

• Do digital media support or hinder the musical indigenous movement?

Other themes that may be explored include the impact of digital media on:

• representation and self determination through music

• musical constructions of place

• cultural revival and cultural repatriation

• musical production, mediation and consumption

• global musical communities and networks

• ethnographic methods, representing musical practices and ethics

For enquiries about the symposium please contact any of the organisers:

Thomas Hilder. t.r.hilder@rhul.ac.uk

Henry Stobart h.stobart@rhul.ac.uk

Shzr Ee Tan shzree.tan@rhul.ac.uk

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: 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.