CFP: Parallels, Quarrels, Confrontations: Comparatism as a discursive strategy in 17th century writings on music (Sorbonne, Paris)

PARALLELS, QUARRELS, CONFRONTATIONS: COMPARATISM AS A DISCURSIVE STRATEGY IN 17TH CENTURY WRITINGS ON MUSIC
UNIVERSITY PARIS-SORBONNE & ATELIER D'E'TUDES OF THE CENTRE DE MUSIQUE BAROQUE DE VERSAILLES
10 - 12 DECEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The research group Patrimoines et Langages Musicaux of the University Paris-Sorbonne and the Atelier d'études of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles is organizing an international conference on the discursive strategies deployed in 17th century writings on music, which will take place 10-12 December 2009 in Paris and Versailles.

Proposed topics (unexhaustive list)

- issues of comparatism;
- strategies of legitimization and validation: appropriateness of models, establishment of canons and authorities;
- Identification of pairs and related issues;
. spatio-temporal criteria: Ancient and Modern, French and Italian, etc.
. cross-disciplinary criteria: music and architecture, music and mathematics, music and rhetoric, music and painting, etc.
- transformation into other pairs: Ancient / Modern ârt theorists / practitioners, etc.

Scientific committee:
Andre CHARRAK (Université de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne), Jean DURON (Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles), Theodora Psychoyou (Université de Paris-Sorbonne), Rudolf Rasch (Universiteit Utrecht)

Contact: theodora.psychoyou at paris-sorbonne.fr

Detailed program forthcoming on website: www.plm.paris-sorbonne.fr/theorie1209.shtml

CFP: Interdisciplinary Humanities (journal)

INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES
PUBLISHED BY THE HUMANITIES EDUCATION RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
SPECIAL ISSUE: MUSIC IN CONTEXT (REQUEST FOR READERS)
CALL FOR PAPERS

I am interested to locate readers for a special issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities entitled "Music in Context." Our scholarly journal is published twice each year and usually includes a special interest issue. Currently, we seek specialists to read a paper in the following areas of interest:

Hollywood Musicals
Film Music
Electro-Acoustic Music
Dance Hall Music
Music (Iconography) and Painting
17th Century France
19th Century Opera
18th Century Instrumentation
Chinese-Western Musical Relationships
20th Century Arts.

If you are interested to review a submission and recommend it, or not recommend it, for publication, please email me at your earliest convenience.

Regards,
Steve Husarik
shusarik at uafortsmith.edu