CFP: Revista Transcultural de Música (journal)

REVISTA TRANSCULTURAL DE MÚSICA

SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO STUDIES, GENDER STUDIES, FEMINISM AND MUSIC

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 2010

TRANS-Transcultural Music Review 15 (2011)present a special issue dedicated to interdisciplinary research on Women and Music,coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the publication of Feminine Endings (1991) by Susan McClary, and Gender and Musical Canon (1993) by Marcia Citron. The dossier will be published in collaboration with the group on "Women's Studies, Gender, and Feminism in Music" (www.compositoras.acimus.org) of the Society for Ethnomusicology-SIBE, coordinated by Susan Campos Fonseca (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-UAM).

We are accepting original articles on this topic following the research lines of: musical constructions of gender and sexuality, gender aspects of traditional music theory; gender and sexuality in the musical narrative; music as a discourse of gender; discourse strategies of the "women musicians"; canonical matters and practice of canon. Related works are also considered since the Cultural Studies and Historical Musicology.

Articles may be written in Spanish, English,French, Italian or Portuguese. Deadline for receipt of manuscripts: September 2010.

For information about the editorial norms follow the link:

http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/contributors.htm

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

CFP: Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique (Leeds)

RICHARD HOGGART: CULTURE AND CRIQITUE
An international conference hosted by
THE SCHOOL OF CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE INSTITUTE OF NORTHERN STUDIES
LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
10 - 12 JULY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Since the publication of The Uses of Literacy in 1957, Richard Hoggart has been one of Britain’s foremost public intellectuals and cultural critics. His work challenges entrenched disciplinary and social boundaries, addressing a wide range of subjects including literature, popular culture and the development of public policy.

His reputation for being both a critical and practical intellectual is evident in the way that he worked tirelessly within and without the world of academe for much of his career, working as an extra-mural lecturer at the University of Hull, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester, Professor of English and founding Director for the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO and Warden of Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has also been a key member of numerous other public bodies and committees, including the Albermarle Committee on Youth Services, the Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education and the
Broadcasting Research Unit.

During this time he has published over thirty books and contributed to numerous policy documents, the sum of which represents an extensive and entirely consistent engagement with normative questions and public discourses that continue to inform contemporary debates about culture, literacy, educated citizenship and social democracy.

Invited keynote speakers include Alan Bennett, Melvyn Bragg, Tony Harrison, Peter Bailey, Ros Brunt, Sue Owen, Jim McGuighan, Mac Daly, Jeremy Seabrook, John Corner, among others. Papers are invited on any aspect of the work or influence of Richard Hoggart, but are particularly encouraged on the following themes:

• Cultural Studies: Then & Now
• Uses of Literature
• Cultural & Social History
• Adult Education
• Media, Culture & Society
• Cultural Policy
• Gender, Sexuality & Race

Conference papers will be organized into panel sessions of 90 minutes, each comprising three 20-minute papers and time for discussion. Proposals may be submitted either for individual papers or for organized panel sessions of three papers and a chair.

Abstracts of papers (200 words) should be sent by 31st January 2009 to Pat Cook/Jean Brownridge. Email: Cook.Brownridge@leedsmet.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 113 812 3120

Further details will be posted on the School of Cultural Studies website in due course: http://leedsmet.ac.uk/as/cs/