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<div class="" itemprop="text"><p><strong>CALL FOR PAPERS</strong></p>
<p><strong>Ecomusicologies 2016: Locations and Dislocations</strong></p>
<p><strong>April 8-10, 2016</strong></p>
<p><strong>Westminster Choir College of Rider University</strong></p>
<p><strong>Princeton, NJ</strong></p>
<p><strong>Deadline for proposals: December 1, 2015</strong></p>
<p>Ecomusicologies 2016 seeks to bring together scholars, performers,
and composers to further explore the relationships between music,
culture, and the environment under the theme <em>Locations and Dislocations</em>.
The conference will tune to sounds as they fit or belong in the place
they are heard, as they fit or belong in some other place, or as they
have no ecological home, either built or natural. Among the questions at
stake are those concerning how listeners (dis)locate sounds; how sounds
both emanate from and shape their environments; what causes sounding
bodies to locate, relocate, and dislocate; whether some sounds are
un-locateable; and how technologies splice, combine, and compress sounds
into new locations. Possible paper topics related to the theme might
explore any of the following, as well as a number of other topics:</p>
<ul><li>Music composed by combining built and natural sound sources</li><li>The changing environment around an unchanging sound</li><li>Outsourced musical labor</li><li>The migration of populations and their sounds/music in response to environmental catastrophe</li><li>Psychographic data that locates music-listening practices: when apps listen back</li><li>The sounds of populations biopolitically dislocated from vital resources</li><li>The relationship among sound, (dis)ability, and environments</li></ul>
<p>The program committee welcomes submissions on any aspect of
ecomusicology and from any academic discipline. The keynote speaker is
composer Byron Au Yong (<a href="http://hearbyron.com">hearbyron.com</a>). The son of immigrants, Au Yong’s
music and music theatre works—which include site-specific
collaborations—have extensively explored notions of “home” and “not
home,” location and dislocation. We especially encourage proposals that
relate of the theme of <em>Locations and Dislocations</em> and the works of Byron Au Yong. Submissions can be in one of four formats:</p>
<ul><li>Panels (3-4 participants in a 90-minute session)</li><li>Individual Paper or Performance Lecture (20-minute presentation + 10-minute discussion)</li><li>Workshops (30-90 minutes)</li><li>Performance or Film (10-120 minutes)</li></ul>
<p>All proposals must be submitted to Eric Hung (<a href="mailto:ehung@rider.edu">ehung@rider.edu</a>) by 11:59pm EST on December 1, 2015 and follow the following guidelines:</p>
<ul><li>The text of your email must include your name(s), title(s), affiliation(s), and contact information.</li><li>Your abstract must be anonymous and be in .pdf format.
<ol><li>Panel proposals should contain a 250-word (maximum) introduction to
the panel, plus 250-word (maximum) abstracts that summarize the
arguments, methods and findings for each contribution.</li><li>Individual paper proposals should contain a 250-word (maximum)
abstract that summarizes the author’s arguments, methods and findings.</li><li>Workshop proposals should contain a 250-word (maximum) abstract that
summarizes the aims, methods and significance of the proposed session.
Please indicate the desired length of the workshop. Workshop proposals
may include supplementary materials.</li><li>Performance or film proposals should contain a 250-word (maximum)
abstract that summarizes your performance/film and explains how your
contribution furthers our understanding of the relationship between
music, culture and the environment. Please indicate the desired length
of the performance/film. Performance/film proposals may include
supplementary materials.</li></ol>
</li><li>If you are submitting supplementary materials, please submit in .mp3
or .mp4 format. If you have a file that is over 10MB, please provide a
web link.</li></ul>
<p>The program committee will notify all applicants of its decisions by
December 20. Questions about the conference should be directed to Eric
Hung (<a href="mailto:ehung@rider.edu">ehung@rider.edu</a>).</p>
<p><strong>Program Committee:</strong></p>
<p>Justin Burton (Rider University, USA)</p>
<p>Kate Galloway (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)</p>
<p>Eric Hung (Westminster Choir College of Rider University, USA)</p>
<p>Rachel Mundy (Rutgers University, Newark, USA)</p>
<p>Ryan Taussig (Eastman School of Music, USA)</p><p><a href="http://musicinnewjersey.com/eco2016/">http://musicinnewjersey.com/eco2016/</a><br></p></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>carlos palombini, ph.d. (dunelm)<br>professor de musicologia ufmg<br>professor colaborador ppgm-unirio<br><a href="http://www.proibidao.org" target="_blank">www.proibidao.org</a><br><a href="http://goo.gl/KMV98I" target="_blank">ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2" target="_blank">www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2</a><br><a href="http://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=YLmXN7AAAAAJ" target="_blank">scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=YLmXN7AAAAAJ</a><br></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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