CFP: Kiss Me Again: Mapping the Life and Legacy of Arthur Russell (NYU)

KISS ME AGAIN: MAPPING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ARTHUR RUSSELL
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NYC
10 OCTOBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The composer and musician Arthur Russell lived and worked in New York between 1973 and 1992. During his time in the city he performed and recorded compositional music, pop music, disco, new wave, songs for the cello, and hip-hop-inflected electronic pop. As any listener of his music will know, he also liked to blur the boundaries of genre as he went about his work. Russell's open-mindedness and antipathy to being marketed contributed to his lack of recognition, and his music went relatively unheard outside of aficionado dance circles after his passing. But beginning with the simultaneous release of Calling Out of Context and The World of Arthur Russell in 2004, and culminating with the release of the documentary film Wild Combination in 2008, Russell's work has gained a new lease of life.

Acknowledging the newfound interest in Arthur Russell, New York University, the Centre for Cultural Studies Research at University of East London and Bloomfield College are organising an Arthur Russell conference that will take place at NYU on 10 October. The all-day event will be organised around four panels, two featuring invited speakers, two featuring speakers who respond to this call for papers. The conference will also feature a screening of Wild Combination, with director Matt Wolf answering questions, and (it is hoped) rare Arthur Russell footage shot by Phill Niblock and Alan Abrams. The evening event will feature musicians who worked with Arthur Russell. Tim Lawrence's biography of Arthur Russell, Hold On to Your Dreams, will be launched during the event. Attendance is free.

Suitable themes for papers include but are by no means restricted to Arthur Russell and his collaborators; Arthur Russell and the downtown scene; Arthur Russell and composition; Arthur Russell and genre; Arthur Russell, sexuality, race and sound; Arthur Russell and performance; and Arthur Russell and the contemporary music market. Papers might also consider specific recordings, including "Kiss Me Again" by Dinosaur, Arthur Russell's first record release, which came out on Sire Records in 1978. Papers should last for 20 minutes.

Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted to one of the organisers by 15 July. Decisions will be circulated by 31 July.

Organisers:
Sukhdev Sandhu (NYU): ss162 at nyu.edu
Tim Lawrence (UEL): tlawrence1 at mac.com
Peter Gordon (Bloomfield): petergordonmusic at mac.com

CFP: Consequences of Wagner (Portugal)

CONSEQUENCES OF WAGNER
CENTRO DE ESTUDOS DE SOCIOLOGIA E ÉSTETICA MUSICAL
LISBON, PORTUGAL
27 - 28 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote speakers to include:
John Deathridge, King’s College, London
William Weber, California State University

CESEM (the Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, http://www2.fcsh.unl.pt/cesem/), a research unit at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), is to host an international Conference on the theme ‘Consequences of Wagner’, to mark the 100th anniversary of the first staging of Wagner’s Ring in Portugal. The Conference venue will be the very theatre where these historical performances took place: the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos (Lisbon Opera House).

The Conference forms part of an ongoing research project funded by the FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), and its focus, as implied in the title, is the overall impact of Richard Wagner’s works and ideas on Western culture, with a particular emphasis on the movements and phenomena (the ‘consequences’) that could be said to have been triggered off by Wagner even though they might not necessarily fall under the heading of ‘Wagner reception studies’ in the strict sense.

We are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in topics such as the theory, aesthetics and history of opera staging and performance, the status of music and music drama in fin-de-siècle culture, Wagner and modernism, eroticism and sexuality, post-Wagnerian compositional techniques and musical styles, the appropriation of Wagner by artists from different media and nationalities, the repercussions of ‘the case of Wagner’ in historiography, philosophy, politics and popular culture, Wagner as myth and the wider implications of Wagnerism and anti-Wagnerism.

The official language of the Conference will be English. A selection of papers will be considered for publication in book form.

We invite scholars from various disciplines to contribute to this international Conference. Please send abstracts (max. 300 words) for 20-minute papers (to be followed by 10 minutes’ discussion), in English, plus a short biographical note, to the Conference organizers no later than 30 June 2009:

Paulo F. de Castro: pf.castro at fcsh.unl.pt
Gabriela Cruz: ggcruz at fcsh.unl.pt
David Cranmer: cranmer at netcabo.pt

Notification of acceptance will be given by 20 July 2009. The Organization is unable to cover any expenses, but it may be able to help with finding accommodation at special rates.

For further information, please contact: pf.castro at fcsh.unl.pt

Job Posting: Lecturer (2 posts) - University of Leeds

JOB POSTING
LECTURER (2 POSTS)
SCHOOL OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UK
CLOSING DATE: 14 April 2009.

The School of Music invites applications for 2 Lecturer posts. Qualified to Doctoral level you will be an outstanding scholar who has research outputs of international significance (or the potential to develop) and be able to make a significant contribution to the research culture of the School and contribute to a lively postgraduate community. With excellent teaching skills, including experience at HE level, and the ability to demonstrate these in an appropriate choice of delivery techniques and assessment methods you will participate in specialist undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision.

Post 1: Lecturer in Music with specialism in Composition (any style)
The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery and coordination of specialist Composition modules and be able to contribute to the degree programme in Popular and World Musics.

Post 2: Lecturer in Music with specialism in Music Technology
The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery and coordination of specialist Music Technology modules and contribute to a broader range of subjects within the School’s portfolio and contribute to both the BA Music and BA Popular and World Musics programmes. Knowledge of the wider musicological, historical, aesthetic, scientific, compositional and/or performative aspects of music technology and computer music would be desirable.

These posts are available from 1 September 2009 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Lecturer 7/8 (£29,704 - £43,622 p.a.) according to qualifications and experience

Informal inquiries about the post may be made to Professor Derek Scott, School of Music, email d.scott at leeds.ac.uk

To download an application form and job details please visit www.leeds.ac.uk and click on jobs. Alternatively these may be obtained from email vpaempl at leeds.ac.uk tel +44 (0)113 343 7003 or +44 (0)113 343 3731.
Closing date: April 14th, 2009.

CFP: Pop Culture Tools in the Music Classroom (publication)

POP CULTURE TOOLS IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM

DEADLINE: 1 AUGUST 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit potential contributions to an essay collection on using popular culture in undergraduate- and graduate-level music courses. The essays should focus on teaching and learning tools derived from popular culture, and may also include generalized considerations of popular-culture texts. The collection is intended to serve as a framework for course design or as a supplementary text in either pedagogy or music classes. Approaches
concerning methods of using popular culture to address either art or vernacular musics, from the disciplines of musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory and analysis, and performance studies are welcome. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• electronic media such as mp3s and other digital audio; Ipod culture; streamed radio
• multimedia sources, including YouTube, music videos, television shows, movies, soundtracks
• videogames such as Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Dance Dance Revolution, and others
• online environments such as Second Life
• covers, versioning, parodies, mashups

Essays should be 6,000-10,000 words in length and conform to Chicago Manual of Style guidelines. Authors will be responsible for acquiring any necessary permissions for copyrighted materials included in their works. Text should be submitted as Word files (.doc or .rtf format), with musical examples in .tif, .pdf, .jpg, .gif, or .bmp format (.tifs are preferred).

The collection will be published by Scarecrow Press in 2010. Materials should be submitted electronically to Nicole Biamonte at by August 1, 2009. Please include:
1) a cover letter or message, including the author's name and essay title
2) an abstract of approximately 200 words
3) the proposed contribution, with author's name and other identifying information omitted
4) a brief biography (50 to 100 words)
5) a current cv

CFP: Popular Music in the Mercer Era (Georgia State University)

POPULAR MUSIC IN THE MERCER ERA, 1910-1970
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, ATLANTA GA
12 - 14 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

In recognition of the centennial of songwriter Johnny Mercer’s birth, Georgia State University Library’s Popular Music and Culture Archives invites submissions of papers for consideration to be presented at the two-day conference, “Popular Music in the Mercer Era, 1910-1970.”

Each of the four conference sessions focuses on a particular genre: blues, hillbilly (country), jazz, and rock ‘n’ roll. Papers proposed for the sessions are invited to explore elements of popular music composition and production, including but not limited to: influences; lyrics; regionalism; live or stage performance; the Southern and Jewish Diasporas; broadcast (radio and television); film music; Tin Pan Alley; and record companies and the music business. Special consideration will be given to studies that relate to Johnny Mercer and the popular music of his era.

Submission deadline is February 28, 2009. We seek papers from scholars and graduate students in all disciplines. There will be an award given for a graduate student paper, which will allow the student to attend the conference and present a paper. Participants will be required to submit
a final version of the paper prior to the conference. We intend to publish the conference proceedings in electronic form, and then at later date publish select papers in a printed volume.

Please submit a one-page abstract, a two-page curriculum vitae, and contact information including name, title, affiliation, address, e-mail, phone and fax numbers. Send inquiries and submissions to:

Georgia State University Library
Special Collections and Archives
ATTN: Kevin Fleming
100 Decatur Street, SE
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303-3202
kfleming@gsu.edu

Funding for the “Popular Music in the Mercer Era, 1910-1970” is provided through the Johnny Mercer Foundation.

About the Archives: The Popular Music and Culture Archives, within the Georgia State University Library Special Collections Department, collects and preserves unique and rare historical materials documenting 20th-century American Popular Music and Culture. Areas of focus include Johnny Mercer and music of his era; early county, bluegrass and gospel music; and radio broadcasting in Atlanta. The department promotes the use of these materials by the Georgia State University community, scholars and the public. The mission of the Archives is to advance scholarship and to further the educational, research and service missions of Georgia State University.

CFP: Nota Bene Undergraduate Journal of Musicology

NOTA BENE UNDERGRADUATE JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Don Wright Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario requests submissions for the 2009 issue of Nota Bene. Authors must submit papers electronically by February 15, 2009.

Nota Bene is a professor-reviewed journal for musicology created specifically for undergraduate students studying at institutions internationally. We invite papers in the fields of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, and music theory that meet a high critical and rhetorical standard. We encourage submissions in both English and French. Professors are encouraged to forward this message to students. Information for authors and previous issues are available at www.music.uwo.ca/notabene.html

Nota Bene’s mission is to offer undergraduate students an opportunity to participate in an international academic discussion and publication process. The journal seeks to establish a community of young scholars across North America, to expose them to the work of their peers, and thus to nurture a lively discourse encouraging students to pursue musicological graduate work. In this way we hope to expose young music students to the diversity of this field. A list of our review panel is available through our website. We aim to provide participating undergraduate students with feedback from our external reviewers, particularly for those students intending to submit papers for graduate school applications. Nota Bene is committed to representing all undergraduate levels and will provide every submission with feedback from the review panel.

The editors may be contacted at: notabene at uwo.ca

We sincerely hope you will encourage your students to participate in this exciting project.

Sincerely,
Katharina Clausius, Kristen Duerhammer, Veena Varghese
Student Editors-in-Chief

CFP: TRANS - Musics of the Mediterranean (journal)

MUSICS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
CALL FOR PAPERS

TRANS- TRANS-Transcultural Music Review 14 (2010) is preparing a special issue on Musics of the Mediterranean for 2010, edited by Rubén Gómez Muns (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) and Fethi Salah (Ecole Normale Supérieure – Kouba – Argel). We are accepting original articles on this topic, which could complement those included in this number.

The Mediterranean Sea gives way to a rich, complex and diverse cultural area, marked by multiple and intertwined processes of interaction between Europe, the Maghreb, the Balkans and Turkey. These processes of cultural exchange have found in music one of its best carriers, embodying issues of hybridization, métissage and patrimonialization; postcolonial relationships, globalization, and also migrancy and diaspora movements.

This special issue pretends to gather original works about the cultural complexity of the Mediterranean through the lens of music and from a interdisciplinary perspective, which deals with traditional music, popular music, local music scenes, diasporas, musical practices, cultural industries, theory, etc.

We accept contributions in Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese. The deadline for the submission of the articles is September 2009.

For information about the editorial norms follow the link: http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/contributors.htm