Ethnomusicological Research Today – An International Doctoral Workshop (Hanover)

ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH TODAY - AN INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL WORKSHOP

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY FOR MUSIC AND DRAMA, HANOVER, GERMANY

24 - 28 JUNE 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ethnomusicology Department of the University for Music and Drama at Hanover, Germany, is organising an international workshop for Ph.D. candidates in ethnomusicology and its sister disciplines. The workshop will be directed by Prof. Dr. Raimund Vogels (Hanover) and Prof. Dr. Philip V. Bohlman (Chicago/Hanover).

The aims of the workshop are to promote exchange on ethnomusicological Ph.D. projects throughout Europe and to further critical debate on recent research in the discipline. The first two days of the workshop (25 & 26 June) are devoted to the presentation of papers by the participants. The third day (27 June) will be devoted to critical discussion of recent ethnomusicological publications. Arrival will be on June 24th, departure on June 28th. The workshop language – presentations and discussion – will be English.

The organizers inivite applications from Ph.D. candidates researching their dissertations in ethnomusicology or one of its sister disciplines (e.g., musical anthropology). There are no restrictions concerning the current stage of Ph.D. research, the region of study, or the thematic focus. Participants are required to read the following publications selected for discussion by the time the workshop takes place:

* Nettl, Bruno: The Study of Ethnomusicology. Thirty-One Issues and Concepts.New Edition. Urbana, University of Illinois Press 2005.

* Stobart, Henry (Hg.): The New (Ethno)Musicologies.Lanham, Scarecrow Press 2008.

* Barz, Gregory, und Timothy Cooley (Hg.): Shadows in the Field. New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology.Second Edition. New York, Oxford University Press 2008.

* Bohlman, Philip V.: World Music. A Very Short Introduction.Oxford, Oxford University Press 2002.

* Feld, Steven: Sound and Sentiment. Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression.Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press 1982.

* Stokes, Martin: The Arabesk Debate. Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey.Oxford, Oxford University Press 1992.

* Vogels, Raimund: The Big Drum was Beaten and the Force Moved East. Islamic Court Music in Northeast Nigeria.In Print. Manuscript will be sent to participants.

* Rommen, Timothy. „Mek Some Noise”. Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad.Berkeley, University of California Press 2007.

* Hahn, Tomie: Sensational Knowledge. Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance.Middletown, Wesleyan University Press 2007.

* Hesselink, Nathan: P’ungmul.. South Korean Drumming and Dance.Chicago, University of Chicago Press 2006..

The University for Music and Drama will cover room and board, and will attempt to contribute toward travel expenses if needed. Funding details will be negotiated
individually.

Ethnomusicology Ph.D. students interested in participating should send an abstract of 250 words, a CV, and a preliminary estimate of travel costs. The application deadline is 5 May 2009.

The number of participants is limited to sixteen. If you wish to take part in the workshop as an auditor without a presentation, you are welcome to do so, but are requested to notify the organizers by 5 May 2009. For auditors, travel, room, and board will be at their own expense.

Please forward this call to anyone interested and send your applications or any questions by e-mail to Kerstin Klenke:

Kerstin Klenke MA
University for Music and Drama
Emmichplatz 1
30175 Hanover
kerstin.klenke@hmt-hannover.de
Tel.: +49 (0)511 31007632
Fax: +49 (0)511 31007642

Prof. Dr. Raimund Vogels
University for Music and Drama Hanover
Emmichplatz 1
30175 Hanover
raimund.vogels@hmt-hannover.de
Tel.: +49 (0)511 31007631
Fax: +49 (0)511 31007642

Prof. Dr. Philip V. Bohlman
Department of Music
The University of Chicago
1010 E. 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois
60637
USA
boh6@uchicago.edu
Tel.: +1 (773)
702-0514
Fax: +1 (773) 753-0558

Fully Funded Visiting Research Studentships Available (Open University)

VISITING RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS
MUSIC COMPUTING LAB, OPEN UNIVERSITY
COMMENCING: 1 MAY 2009

Four fully funded places for three-month Visiting Research Studentships, available immediately at the Music Computing Lab at the Open University.

Up to four fully funded places for three-month Visiting Research Students are immediately available at the Music Computing Lab at the Open University. The projects will be undertaken in collaboration with the Pervasive Interaction Lab. You must be an EU or UK National. Prospective students could be excellent final year undergraduates, Masters students, or PhD students, or could have recently completed any of these awards.

You must be available to start in May 2009. Broadly, we are interested in candidates with experience in HCI, Pervasive Interaction, Music Computing or Haptics.

We welcome recommendations for likely candidates from researchers or teachers from relevant disciplines in university departments. Students or recent students are equally welcome to apply on their own behalf.

Visiting students will work on predefined research projects as summarized below.

The studentships are available to start from 1st May (with a small amount of flexibility). The studentships will run until 31st July, although in an exceptional case a studentship might be extended by a few weeks.

Students will be based at the Open University Campus in Milton Keynes. We will pay for accommodation in Milton Keynes plus living expenses. We can also cover reasonable travel expenses at the start and finish of the studentship.

Project Area 1
Music Computing and Pervasive Interaction: Implementation

1.1 Multi-touch shared tabletop interaction in Music Computing
1.2 Haptics and force feedback in Music Computing
1.3 Expressive, interactive animated graphics for Music Computing tools
1.4 Tangible, embedded, and whole body Music Computing
1.5 New tools for supporting beginning String Players

Project Area 2
Music Computing and Pervasive Interaction: Evaluation
The purpose of this family of projects is to assist in carrying out user studies and other
kinds of evaluation of new tools for music performance, composition and education.

Project Area 3
Exploratory Music programming for the iPhone.

Project Area 4
Collaborative creativity between professional musician(s), and the general public
This project involves assisting in the design, implementation and evaluation of tools to
support collaborative creativity between professional musician(s), and the general public.
This work is likely to involve a Multi-touch shared tabletop interface.

For full details and more information on the projects, contact mcs-computing-secretaries@open.ac.uk. Applications should also be sent to this address. Informal enquiries for projects 1-3 should be sent to s.holland (insert here) open.ac.uk. For details of projects 1 and 2 also contact j.vanderlinden. For project 3, also contact r.w.griffiths. The contact for project 4 is r.c.laney. (All addresses are open.ac.uk.)

Applications should include a CV and covering note that summarizes
• evidence of appropriate knowledge, skills and experience for the specific studentship,
• why you want to undertake this particular studentship,
• why you think you would be a good candidate,
• telephone, email and postal contact details for two referees, at least one of whom must be able to comment on subject discipline specifics.

This is an opportunity to gain experience on practical projects run in collaboration between the Music Computing Lab and the Pervasive Interaction Lab. Each project is intended to lead to a publication with the student as co-author.

Dr. Simon Holland
Director of Music Computing Lab
Department of Computing
Faculty of Mathematics and Computing
The Open University
Milton Keynes
UK
MK7 6AA

AHRC Doctoral Award - (University of Southampton)

AHRC COLLABORATIVE DOCTORAL AWARD
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award for the FICTOS (Franco-Italian Culture Transfer in Opera and Song, 1800-1850) in musicology, offered in conjunction with Opera Rara. This studentship will cover full fees for up to three years for a candidate proposing a dissertation in the field of Franco-Italian cultural transfer in nineteenth-century music. Home students will be eligible to receive a stipend of £12,940 p.a. for full-time study and £8,960 for part-time study (2008-2009 figures). Download the full details from
http://www.soton.ac.uk/music/postgrad/postgraduatestudentships.html

Upcoming Research Training Roadshow - Studying Music through Science and Technology (IMR)

RESEARCH TRAINING ROADSHOW: STUDYING MUSIC THROUGH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
11 AND 12 MAY 2009 - 10.30 - 18.00


MONDAY 11 MAY
Research Training Roadshow Studying Music through Science and Technology (Senate House, Room NG16), 10.30 am – 6 pm

In association with Lancaster University, Queen Mary University of London, and Goldsmiths College

Speakers: Alan Marsden (Lancaster), Ian Knopke (Computing, Goldsmiths), and Dan Tidhar (Electrical Engineering, QMUL)

Free of charge. Advance registration required. To register, email music@sas.ac.uk.


TUESDAY 12 MAY
Research Training Roadshow Studying Music through Science and Technology (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lecture Theatre/Recital Room, Lancaster University)*, 10.30 am – 6 pm

In association with Lancaster University, Queen Mary University of London, and Goldsmiths College

Speakers: Alan Marsden (Lancaster), Ian Knopke (Computing, Goldsmiths), and Dan Tidhar (Electrical Engineering, QMUL)

Free of charge. Advance registration required. To register, email music@sas.ac.uk.

*NB room change: this seminar will take place in Meeting Room 2 of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University

ABSTRACT
Modern culture, in music research as in other fields, tends to divide science from art despite a strong strand of scientific music research dating back to the time of Pythagoras. This division is increasingly untenable in the light of the recent growth in 'Empirical Musicology' and developments in new technology. We aim in this study day to show how bridging this divide and applying scientific method and computing technology can help to address typical problems in musicology in general, and analysis in particular. Sessions will include material on Schenker and Palestrina; another focus will be applications of the software arising from the large-scale OMRAS 2 project of Goldsmiths' and Queen Mary Universities of London. Jargon and arcane technicalities will be avoided.

CFP: London International Conference on Education

LONDON INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUATION - LICE 2009
LONDON
9 - 12 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
(www.liceducation.org)

The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.

The aim of LICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The LICE-2009 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals.

The topics in LICE-2009 include but are not confined to the following areas:

*Academic Advising and Counselling
*Art Education
*Adult Education
*Business Education
*Counsellor Education
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Distance Education
*Early Childhood Education
*Educational Administration
*Educational Foundations
*Educational Psychology
*Educational Technology
*Education Policy and Leadership
*Elementary Education
*E-Learning
*ESL/TESL
*Health Education
*Higher Education
*History
*Human Resource Development
*Indigenous Education
*ICT Education
*Kinesiology & Leisure Science
*K12
*Language Education
*Mathematics Education
*Music Education
*Pedagogy
*Physical Education
*Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
*Reading Education
*Rural Education
*Science Education
*Secondary Education
*Second life Educators
*Social Studies Education
*Special Education
*Student Affairs
*Teacher Education
*Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
*E-Society
*Other Areas of Education

IMPORTANT DATES:

Extended Abstract Submission Date:June 30, 2009
Paper Submission Date: July 15, 2009
Proposal for Workshops: May 15, 2009
Notification of Workshop Acceptance: May 31, 2009
Proposal for Academic Presentation: April 30, 2009
Notification of Extended Abstract Acceptance/Rejection:July 31, 2009
Notification of Academic Presentation Acceptance: May 15, 2009
Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection: August 15, 2009
Camera Ready Paper Due: September 01, 2009
Author Registration: September 15, 2009
Early Bird Attendee registration: October 01, 2009
Conference Dates: November 09-12, 2009

For further information please visit LICE-2009 at www.liceducation.org

RMA Study Day: Music and Modernism (Courtauld Institute)

RMA STUDY DAY: MUSIC AND MODERNISM

KENNETH CLARK LECTURE THEATRE

COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART, LONDON

15 - 16 MAY 2009

14.45 - 18.30, Friday 15 May (with registration from 14.15)

10.00 - 18.00, Saturday 16 May (with registration from 09.30)

Exploring Kandinsky's contention that the 'various arts are drawing together [...] finding in music the best teacher,' Music and Modernism will re-evaluate the significant connections between the disciplines of music and fine art in the period covering the emergence and flowering of Modernism, c. 1849 - 1950. During this time both music and fine art were concerned with issues of equality, equivalence, relativity and subjectivity - themes that have since been taken as key to the definition of Modernism. Composers and artists repeatedly borrowed from one another, yet their motives have seldom been explored. Did such quotation amount to a conscious statement of their modernity, or was this merely a symptom of shared interests? This study day will question not only what it was music gave to fine art, or fine art music, but will ask whether we can in fact think in terms of two opposing directions of influence in this period at all.

To book a place: £25 (£15 students, Courtauld staff and RMA members) Please send a cheque made payable to 'Courtauld Institute of Art' to: Research Forum Events Co-ordinator, Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, clearly stating that you wish to book for the 'Music and Modernism study day'. For credit card bookings call 020 7848 2785/2909. For further information, send an e-mail to ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk .

PROGRAMME

Friday, 15 May

14.15 - 14.45 - Registration

14.45 - 15.00 - Welcome

15.00 - 17.00 - SESSION 1 - Towards New Truth? German Aesthetics and the Claims of Gesamtkunstwerk

Robert Williams Music and Kunstwissenschaft, University of California, Santa Barbara

Diane Silverthorne (Birkbeck College and the Royal College of Art, London), Music, Modernism and the Vienna Secession: Musical Form in Ver Sacrum (1898-1903)

Petritakis Spyridon (University of Crete), Arnold Böcklin and Music: a Case Revisited

Isabel Wünsche (Jacobs University, Bremen), Seeing Sound - Hearing Colour: Synesthetic Considerations in the Russian Avant-garde

17.00 - 17.30 - TEA/COFFEE BREAK

17.30 - 18.30 - KEYNOTE: Professor Peter Vergo (University of Essex). How to Paint a Fugue (and why should anyone want to)?

18.30 - 19.30 - RECEPTION

Saturday, 16 May

09.30 - 10.00 - Registration

10.00 - 11.30 - SESSION 2: Correspondences: Musical-Visual Language in Late Nineteenth Century France

James Rubin (State University of New York), Courbet, Wagner and the Total Work of Art

Michelle Foa (Tulane University), The State of the Arts in Zola's L'Oeuvre

Corrinne Chong (University of Edinburgh), The Transposition of the Vague: Theme and Variations by Fantin-Latour

11.30 - 12.00 - COFFEE/TEA BREAK

12.00 - 13.00 - SESSION 3: Spiritual Harmony? Modernism and the Anglican Church

Ayla Lepine (Courtauld Institute of Art), Sacred Performance: G. F. Bodley's Design for All Saints, Jesus Lane, Cambridge

Douglas Stevens (University of Bristol), The Status and Reception of Musical Modernism in the Commissions of the Mid Twentieth Century Anglican Church

13.00 - 14.00 - BREAK FOR LUNCH

14.00 - 16.00 - SESSION 4: Music and Modern Life

James Mansell (University of Manchester), Music as a Religion of the Future: Ricciotto Canudo, the Musicalists and the Politics of Modernity

Michael Berkowitz (University College, London), Mannes, Godowsky, and Modernism(s): from Music to Photography and Film

Malcolm Cook (Birkbeck Collge, London), Visual Music in Film, 1921-1924: Richter, Eggeling, Ruttman

Jody Patterson (Smithsonian American Art Museum), 'It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing': Stuart Davis and the Fine Art of Jazz

16.00 - 16.30 - TEA/COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 5: Framing the Modern: Retrospect?

Melissa Warak (University of Texas at Austin), Zen and the Art of La Monte Young

Olga Touloumi (Harvard University), The UPIC: Towards the Synaesthetic Promise

17.30 -18.30 - Plenary Discussion: to include John Deathridge and Simon Shaw-Miller

18.30 - CLOSE

Organised by Charlotte de Mille

Fellowship - Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton University)

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY

SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

OPPORTUNITIES FOR SCHOLARS 2010-2011

The Institute is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other university obligations.  The program is open to all fields of historical research, and the School offers the Edward T. Cone Membership in Music Studies, particularly for music historians.  Scholars from around the world come to the Institute to pursue their own research.  Those chosen are offered membership and a stipend for up to a year.  The Institute provides access to extensive resources including offices, libraries, subsidized restaurant and housing facilities, and some secretarial services.  Candidates of any nationality may apply for a single term or a full academic year.  Residence in Princeton during term time is required.  The only other obligation of Members is to pursue their own research.  The Ph.D. (or equivalent) and substantial publications are required.

Information and application forms may be found on the School's web site, www.hs.ias.edu, or contact the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Dr., Princeton, N.J. 08540 (E-mail address: mzelazny at ias.edu).

Deadline: November 1 2009.

CFP: Correspondances: Exchanges and Tensions Between Art, Theatre and Opera in France (London)

CORRESPONDANCES: EXCHANGES AND TENSIONS BETWEEN ART, THEATRE AND OPERA IN FRANCE, C.1750-1850

NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON (IN COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM)

26 - 27 MARCH 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

This conference will explore a rich field of interdisciplinary research, that of the relation between art, theatre and opera in France from the later 18C to the mid 19C. As key elements in Parisian cultural life, art, theatre and opera all underwent extensive changes during this period, adapting and responding to profound socio-political disruption and transformation from the Revolution to the Second Republic.

We aim:

* to map interchanges between stage(s) and canvas, and the role of imagery in stage productions;

* to identify intermediaries in transmitting design to and from the stage and painting;

* to analyse attitudes and assumptions regarding interplay between media in theoretical and critical writing;

* to assess the recoverability of the visual components of theatre and opera.

Major themes which unite the two art forms include:

* the representation of history

* the nature of spectacle and illusion

* narrative and temporality

* the role of criticism

Invited speakers include:

* Prof Stephen Bann, University of Bristol (also a curator of the exhibition)

* Prof Beth Wright, University of Texas at Arlington

* Prof Tom Grey, Stanford University

* Prof David Charlton, Royal Holloway, University of London

We welcome proposals for papers (30 mins). Abstracts of c.250 words should be sent to both conference organisers, and by **1 September 2009**.

Programme and full conference details will be available at:

www.nottingham.ac.uk/moss and www.nottingham.ac.uk/nirv

Sacred Music in the Habsburg Empire 1619–1740 and Its Contexts (Utrecht)

SACRED MUSIC IN THE HABSBURG EMPIRE 1619-1740 AND ITS CONTEXTS

ROOSEVELT ACADEMY, UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT

MIDDELBURG, THE NETHERLANDS

5 - 8 NOVEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sacred music at the Austrian Habsburg courts existed within a complex environment in which liturgy, theology, literature, art, architecture, and politics were tightly interwoven. Also as a cultural export product at the borders of the Empire, such as Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary and the Low Countries, this music interacted – positively or negatively – with local traditions. The symposium seeks to explore this cross-disciplinary interaction for the period from the beginning of the reign of Ferdinand II (1619) to the death of Charles VI (1740).

The sessions will be held over two days and will take place in the attractive surroundings of Middelburg’s late medieval town hall. Limited grants towards travel and subsistence may be available for younger scholars, those without university affiliation, and scholars from Central and Eastern Europe. Selected contributions will be published in a volume of proceedings.

Proposals are invited for

- individual papers of 20 minutes duration (followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion).

- round-table sessions of up to two hours (three or four papers) including discussion.

Individuals may submit one proposal in the form of

- an abstract of not more than 250 words (individual papers).

- a summary of not more than 250 words and abstracts of up to 250 words for each participant (round-table sessions).

Abstracts and papers may be written/presented in English or German.

Acceptance of a proposal will be at the discretion of the programme committee. The abstract should be preceded by the name, institution, postal address, phone no., and email address of the author and may be submitted electronically (plain text, MS Word, RTF) to Tassilo Erhardt (t.erhardt at roac.nl).

The deadline for proposal submission is 15 April 2009.

Programme committee:

Herbert Seifert, Steven Saunders, Robert Rawson, Tassilo Erhardt

For further information please contact:

Dr. Tassilo Erhardt

Email: t.erhardt at roac.nl

Link: http://www.roac.nl/roac/habsburgmusic.phtml

Deadline: 15 Apr 2009

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