CFP: 1st Intl Conf on Analytical Approaches to World Music (Umass, Amherst)

FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ANALYTICAL APPROACHES TO WORLD MUSIC
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST
19 - 21 FEBRUARY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

Today we witness an unprecedented level of interaction between cultures inhabiting diverse regions throughout the world. Thanks to the ever-growing level of musical exchange facilitated by ease of travel, electronic media, and increased access to information, there now exists a vast network of cross-cultural engagement between various musical traditions and cultures of a magnitude that is unparalleled in human history.

This conference seeks to expand the potentials for musical analysis from a cross-cultural perspective by applying diverse theoretical and analytical concepts to repertoires outside the Western art music tradition. 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.

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.

Papers in English, not exceeding 30 minutes duration (plus 10 minutes for discussion), should emphasize analytical and/or theoretical issues pertinent to a particular musical culture. Reflection should be backed up with concrete analytical examples.

Proposals for individual papers, not exceeding 700 words (excluding examples) together with a short biography should be sent or emailed to:

Margaret Farrell (Program Committee Chair)
Ph.D./D.M.A Programs in Music
The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
mfarrell at gc.cuny.edu

Submission deadline: October 1, 2009.

Notification of acceptance will be sent via email on November 1.

Keynote addresses will be delivered by Michael Tenzer and Kofi Agawu.

The conference will also feature a panel discussion, workshops, and a world music concert followed by an open jazz jam session led by University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty.

For additional information regarding conference planning and organization at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, please contact:

Lawrence Shuster (lshuster at music.umass.edu)
Rob Schultz (rschultz at music.umass.edu)
Kalin Kirilov (kkirilov at towson.edu)

Happy 1 Year Old Birthday to Interesting Music Stuff

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO INTERESTING MUSIC STUFF!

Take a second and listen to the 1 minute composition by Igor Stravinsky called the Greeting Prelude (1955) performed by the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw. This concert on 6 June 2009 was to celebrate Louis Andriessen on the occasion of his 70th birthday, and with this selection pays proper hommage to a composer who has been deeply influenced by Stravinsky and whose writings can be found in his book, The Apollonian Clockwork. Just as this concert celebrates Andriessen, Stravinsky's work celebrates the reknown conductor Pierre Monteux by dedicating the work to him as a gift for his 80th birthday. Monteux had conducted among others, the premieres of Stravinsky's Petrushka and Le Sacre du Printemps. Like little burning embers which crackle in a fireplace, the listener hears permutations and fragments of 'Happy Birthday' emerging from the sonic texture, scattered throughout the orchestration and resolution of voice-leading across registers and between instruments.

I wanted to start with this short clip because it is the birthday of this blog and it has now been a year since I started this endeavour and wanted to take stock for a moment. When I began I was attempting to bring together data and other resources which were available amidst the flat world of e-mail and flat websites. RSS has changed much of our approach towards information retrieval and discovery and I wanted this information to be easily findable and searchable.

Initially there were only visitors from the UK and then at the 4 month marker there were visitors from just over 50 countries. Now at the 1 year mark, I can now see that there are now over 90 countries which is incidentally around the same number who participate in the Miss Universe Pageant. Although not a swimsuit or analytical competition to save world hunger, I do appreciate that the information and its usefulness is growing and getting more disseminated into the online world.

From the onset I've interconnected resources I've tagged through Delicious into the blog. As the number of posts have grown, so too have issues of findability and browsability. To organise tags, I added a tag cloud and later, a Google search function. Each of these has added more functionality to the blog and served the moment. Usability and friends have said that the tag cloud has been looking a little murky and in the name of better usability, I've finally uploaded a better script which keeps the list (sorted alphabetically) hidden until needed, providing less clutter but optimal and easier browsability. (As murky as that cloud gets, I just love the way it spins around so don't want to axe it.)

So here's to Year number 2. Let's see where this adventure takes us and what further improvements need to be made to keep searchability and retrieval as efficient as possible whilst the scales keep on growing. I love learning new things - whether they are new resources, java, or code - and if there is anything that this year's adventure has taught me, it is that 1) I have a lot to learn and 2) that I can still learn.

CFC: Nouvel Ensemble Moderne Composition Competition

10TH INTERNATIONAL FORUM
NOUVEL ENSEMBLE MODERNE (NEM)
CALL FOR COMPOSITIONS
DEADLINE: 31 OCTOBER 2009

The Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM), directed by Lorraine Vaillancourt, is pleased to announce its 10th international Forum for young composers, combining for the first time music and video art. Forum 2010 will take place in Montreal in collaboration with the Université de Montréal Faculty of Music and Vidéographe.

Registration Deadline : October 31st, 2009

All composers under the age of 30 are invited to submit before October 31, 2009 on CD or DVD :
1. A work for chamber orchestra or large ensemble
2. A work of their own choice with ou without video medium

The International Jury of Forum 2010 will meet in December 2009 to select eight composers from any country.

The eight selected composers will have to choose one video art (10 minutes) of the four available on the website of the NEM www.lenem.ca from January 2010. Afterwards they will have to write a new piece for the 15 musicians of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (fl, ob, cl1, cl2, bs, tp, horn, tb, vl1, vl2, vla, cello, db, pn, pc). The conductor score as well as the individual parts of these new works must reach Forum 2010 by August 31st, 2010.

The eight composers will be invited to a 3-weeks worshop with the NEM (rehearsals, recording and preparation of the closing evening) at the University of Montreal Faculty of Music from November 8th to 26th, 2010. This workshop will lead the composers to work directly and daily with the orchestra and its conductor Lorraine Vaillancourt. Forum 2010 will cover the costs of accommodation. The composers will assume travel costs from their countries of residence. (Forum 2010 will endorse any requests for travel grants to the country of residence). These works will be recorded on DVD on November 24th and 25th, 2010. An international jury will attend the closing evening in Montreal on November 26th. At the conclusion of the evening, four prizes will be awarded : 1st prize : $3000, 2nd prize : $2000, 3rd prize : $1500 and audience prize : $1000.

Forum 2010’s advertisement campaign and press relations will ensure that the event is widely advertised.

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REGULATIONS

1. Composers must be under the age of 30 by the entry deadline, October 31st, 2009. Candidates must provide proof of citizenship or immigration and proof of age.

2. Composers may not submit more than two works. Any other work will not be considered.

3. Entry form must reach Forum 2010 by October 31st, 2009. The international jury strongly recommends that the scores be accompanied by a recording (CD or DVD).

4. The NEM shall not be held responsible for lost or damaged submissions.

5. By submitting their entries, participants automatically accept the above terms.

FORUM 2010 / MUSIC & VIDEO ART
c/o Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
200, avenue Vincent-d’Indy
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-Ville
Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7
Canada
Tel: +1 514-343-5962 / fax: +1 514-343-2443
www.lenem.ca
info@lenem.ca

Job Posting: Creative Director, Sound and Music

JOB POSTING: CREATIVE DIRECTOR - SOUND AND MUSIC
LONDON, WC2
CA. £50,000 - 60,000 - FULL OR PART TIME
DEADLINE: 25 AUGUST 2009

Founded in 2008, Sound and Music is a brand new organisation formed from the legacy of four of this country’s long-standing lead organisations dedicated to the national and international promotion of new music and sound art.

SAM combines live events activity, learning and participation opportunities, digital platforms and information resources to add depth and richness to the experience of audiences and users when they engage with new music and sound.

Audience development and market growth are key objectives for Sound and Music. It aims to deliver not only a first rate programme for its core users and supporters, but to reach new audiences and offer new experiences.

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Creative Director will bring creative leadership to Sound and Music and engage with the whole team to develop a shared artistic vision for the organisation.

S/he will bring inspiration and support to the delivery of a broad programme of work encompassing a wide range of genres, which grows audiences, is innovative, challenging and informs practice across the whole contemporary arts sector.

Candidates will have broad knowledge of the field with evidence of a wide appreciation for all genres that the organisation will deal with as well as experience of dealing with the public sector. They must be able to evidence entrepreneurial leadership and effective team working skills together with experience of developing external relationships.

At this key time in its emergence, Sound and Music seeks a dynamic individual with the drive and ambition to grasp the agenda and continue to develop this exciting organisation.

A copy of the job description can be downloaded at http://www.execucare.com/docs/vacancy/INFO-7148.pdf

Please send your CV to Joanna Logan at Execucare at sam@execucare.com by 25 August 2009.

Pre-Pub Announcement: Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America (Brepols Publishers)

MUSIC AND DICTATORSHIP IN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA
PRE-PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT
BREPOLS PUBLISHERS

Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America
Edited by Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Sala
approx. 700 p., 210 x 270 mm, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-52779-6, EUR 125
Special pre-publication price: €105 valid until 31 October 2009
Series: Speculum musicae, vol. 14
Publication date: November 2009

An illustration of Benito Mussolini on the cover of the official hymn of the National Fascist Party, "Giovinezza!" ("Youth!") from 'Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America'

'In this book, edited by Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Sala, the music is explored as a political phenomenon in fifteenth nations under totalitarian regimes: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and Hungary. Historical and aesthetical articles face both individual people (for instance, Chavez, Ligeti, Massarani or Villa-Lobos) as well whole generations of composers operating under dictatorship (for example, in the communist regimes of Poland and Serbia; in France under Vichy; in Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, or in Revolutionary Cuba).'

An excerpt of Butterman's essay, '«Ney é gay, não é?» The Emergence and Performance of Queer Identities in Brazilian Popular Music (MPB) under Dictatorship'

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

EUROPE

France: M. Chimènes, Musique et musiciens en France sous le régime de Vichy (1940-1944) - Greece: K. Romanou, Exchanging «Rings» under Dictatorships - Germany: N. Noeske & M. Tischer, Eine viel zu kurze Geschichte der Musikverhältnisse der DDR - Germany: K. Painter, Musical Aesthetics and National Socialism - Germany: M.-A. Roberge, L’impact des guerres mondiales et de la dictature nazie sur le périodique «Die Musik» - Italy: C. Piccardi, La parabola Renzo Massarani, compositore ebreo nell’ombra del fascismo - Poland: A. Tuchowski, The Impact of the Communist Dictatorship and Its Transformations on the Identity of Polish Music in the Years 1945-1989 - Portugal: T. Cascudo, Art Music in Portugal during the Estado Novo - Russia: C. Flamm, Das Problem sowjetische Musikgeschichte. Gedanken zu einer schwierigen Vergangenheitsbewältigung - Russia: M. Frolova-Walker, The Glib, the Bland, and the Corny: An Aesthetics of Socialist Realism - Serbia: M. Milin: Dictatorship and Serbian Music in the 20th-Century - Spain: G. Perez Zalduondo, Formulación, fracaso y despertar de la conciencia crítica en la música española durante el franquismo (1936-1958) - Hungary: R. Beckles Willson, Memory, Dictatorship, and Trauma: Ligeti at the Hungarian Musicians’ Union 1949-1953

LATIN AMERICA

Argentina: P. Vila, Tiempos difíciles, tiempos creativos: rock y dictadura en Argentina - Brazil: D. Borim, Tropicalist Mutantes: Dada and Kitsch under Dictatorship - Brazil: S. Butterman, «Ney é gay, não é?» The Emergence and Performance of Queer Identities in Brazilian Popular Music (MPB) under Dictatorship - Brazil: R. Duprat & M. A. Volpe, Vanguardas e Posturas de Esquerda na Música Brasileira (1920 a 1970) - Brazil: T. Garcia, Music and the Brazilian Estado Novo: Getúlio Vargas, Heitor Villa-Lobos and a National Music Education System - Brazil: M. Napolitano, O Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) nos anos de chumbo do regime militar (1969/1975) - Cuba: S. Münz, Popular Political Music in Revolutionary Cuba - Chile: D. Perry, Beyond ‘Protest Song’: Popular Music in Pinochet’s Chile (1973-1990) - Mexico: L. Velasco Pufleau, Nacionalismo, autoritarismo y construcción cultural: Carlos Chavez y la creación musical en México (1921-1952)

An excerpt from Garcia's essay 'Music and the Brazilian Estado Novo: Getúlio Vargas, Heitor Villa-Lobos and a National Music Education System'

All images are acknowledged with thanks and used with permission of Brepols Publishers. For further information on this title or others in the Speculum Musicae Series click here. For my £0.02 I think the Speculum Series covers many interesting and neglected areas of musicological research. For example, there are many books which explore Italian musics of Tuscany and Sicily but not so many which cover the centre of Italy. Ciliberti's 'Musica e societa in Umbria tra Medioevo e Rinascimento (Vol. 5 in the series) attempts to put Umbria on the musicological map. Also, this book furthers Illiano's earlier set of essays on 'Italian Music during the Fascist Period' (vol. 10 in the series) by expanding the areas studying fascism's influence into other parts of Europe and also Latin America demonstrating that an ocean can not divide the dissemination of ideas. I for one will be buying this for our library collection.

CFP: Music and the Written Word (UCal, Santa Barbara)

MUSIC AND THE WRITTEN WORD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
16 - 17 JANUARY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

The UCSB Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) is seeking submissions for the 2010 “Music and the Written Word” Graduate Conference to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on 16-17 January 2010. Run by and geared towards graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference will focus on music, the written word, and their convergence. We welcome submissions covering the full spectrum of methodologies, disciplinary approaches, and all genres of music.

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:
Relationship between music and text
Text setting
Musical criticism
Representations of music in literature and poetry
Notation and transcription
Music inspired by literature or poetry
Music in print media
Musical poetics
Music as language/language as music
Rhetoric and musical practice
Musical analogy
Music and grammar
Music and worship/liturgy
Language in performance practice
Concrete words, “ineffable” music
Music and political speech
Music and code (C Sound, etc.)

Please send a 200-300-word abstract of your paper to musicandthewrittenword at gmail.com no later than 9 October 2010. Include the abstract as both a file attachment and in the email text. Paper presentations will be allotted twenty minutes, with ten additional minutes for questions and answers.

Details regarding travel, accommodations, and the keynote address will be forthcoming. Updated information will be posted on our website:

http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicwrittenword/

For questions, suggestions, or other communication, please write to: musicandthewrittenword at gmail.com

CFP: 2010 IAML Conference (Moscow, Russia)

2010 IAML INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
27 JUNE - 2 JULY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) will hold its annual conference 27 June-2 July 2010 in Moscow. The IAML Programme Committee invites proposals of papers for this meeting which concern music, collections, and/or library issues that focus on Russian libraries and collections, music, and publishers, although presentations of a general nature are also welcome. We strongly encourage the submission of papers that focus on popular or traditional music of all genres and periods and their impact on libraries.

The online submission form for proposals may be found at the following link:

http://www.iaml.info/activities/conferences/call_for_papers

Proposals must be submitted by 15 SEPTEMBER 2009 in order to be considered.

CFP: Missed Connections (University of Pennsylvania)

MISSED CONNECTIONS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

19 FEBRUARY 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Graduate Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania invites submissions for its 10th annual conference: "Missed Connections." The one-day interdisciplinary conference will take place on Friday, February 19th, 2010 at the Penn Humanities Forum in conjunction with its 2009-2010 topic: "Connections."

What might it mean to consider the ways in which connections are foreclosed, desires for union left unsatisfied, communications disrupted? A "missed connection" might be as intimate as a brush with a stranger or as literal as a dropped phone call or departing plane; it might be a forgotten or neglected history or genealogy. "Missed Connections" seeks to foreground failures or absences of connection across disciplines and methodologies. We hope for briefs against perfect transmission, network theory attuned to the gaps in coverage. We are also interested in fields of study that might come into focus for being "unconnected": the rural, the isolated (geographically and historically), the illegible, the strange/estranged.

Please apply to one of the following panels:

"Can You Hear Me Now?" Though a modern-day cliché, “can you hear me now?” speaks to the perennial difficulty of connection and communication, the constant threat of bad connections and miscommunication. Taking the question in its broadest sense, this panel seeks to address the challenges of producing, conveying, receiving, and/or finding meaning in a world of geographical and cultural distances both small and large. What is at stake, besides the message itself, in our attempts to communicate? What and how does failure to communicate signify? Possible topics include static/noise, digital/material texts, legibility/illegibility, networks, strangers/intimates, publicity/anonymity, vernacular/standard forms, the phatic function, and translation.


Corporal Boundaries and Un-bound Bodies This panel explores the making and unmaking of boundaries, and various kinds of crossings between them. We conceive of these boundaries broadly, as the borders of global politics, postcoloniality and travel; as the social categorizations and impermeable membranes shaping bodily materiality; and as affective connections and impasses. Does the spatial imagination generate possible connections that go unnoticed, or highlight problematic connections in zones of conflict?


Coalitions and Their Failures This panel will seek to explore the concept of coalition alongside its productive failures. Under the rubric of coalition we might imagine assemblages, networks, various means of community and connectivity – not only in the political realm but also within academia, in information, and in technological, material and virtual fields. We aim to explore the connections between coalitions and narrative, historiography, anachronisms, and chrono-politics. At the juncture of perceived or real failures, revolutionary ideologies and counter-institutions can arise. What are the affective implications of coalition failures? Can there be a politics of disconnection? Of regret? Of singularity or isolation? How might we use such failures to imagine new alignments?

Please send 250-word paper proposals for one of these panels along with a 1-page CV via email to Rachael Nichols (nichols.rachael at gmail.com) by November 1, 2009. (Notification by December 1, 2009.)

See the full CFP in all of its illustrated glory here: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/09-10/ghf/cfp.shtml

CFP: Organologia: Instruments and Performance Practice (essays)

ORGANOLOGIA: INSTRUMENTS AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICE
PENDRAGON PRESS
CALL FOR ESSAYS

Pendragon Press is seeking submissions of monographs and collections of essays to be published a new series, Organologia: Instruments and Performance Practice (http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/booksinseries.php?SERIES_ID=47). The series is intended to present texts and studies of musical instruments and performance practice in all cultures and from all periods. Its terms are defined as inclusively as possible, embracing all kinds of music technologies and any type of performative act involving music.

See our Submissions Guidelines (http://www.pendragonpress.com/info/submissions.php) for specific requirements on submitting a manuscript for consideration. If you have any questions, contact Organologia's General Editor, Ardal Powell, at organologia[at] pendragonpress.com.

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