[Anppom-l] CFP: Western Music and Masculinities

Carlos Palombini palombini em terra.com.br
Ter Maio 17 21:58:38 BRT 2005


Call for Contributions:

Men Sounding Off:

Modernity, Masculinity and Western Musical Practice

In other disciplines within the arts and humanities, so-called 'men's 
studies' is a well-established field. Music studies in the Anglophone 
world has only recently begun to address the question of how men have 
used, listened to and brandished musical forms, performed music, 
performed their gender through music and how they have sort to represent 
themselves and their idealised or critical figurations of masculinity 
through musical practice. And yet, the history of thinking about music 
(certainly since the early modern period), is shot through with explicit 
engagements of masculinity as an ideal, a topos, a trope: art music was 
understood to work in a number of ways, it would seem, as site, 
material, idea, figure, symbol, incubator, catalyst, avatar, metonym, 
synecdoche, hyperbole, channel, and vessel for any number of 
masculinities (both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic). This collection is 
thus timely.

We hope that this book will form one of a pair of volumes on music and 
masculinity, the other, Oh Boy! Masculinities and Popular Music edited 
by Freya Jarman (University of Liverpool) is already being considered by 
Routledge.

Contributions are invited to a proposed collection of essays on Western 
Music and Masculinity, circa 1600-1945, although contributions outside 
of this timeframe will be considered. Whilst the editors welcome 
contributions from all fields, we would be particularly pleased to 
receive contributions on the following topics:

Intimacy and public/private male selves
The male authorial voice
The male body in medicine
Music and male emotionality
Music and male eroticism
Music and male sexualities
Historiography of masculinity and music
Music and male hegemony
Music and men in literature
Ideologies of music and masculinity
Music theory and masculinity
Music, masculinity and technology
Music and subversive/alternative masculinities: (e.g. 
cross-dressing/gender bending, male 'disorders', male 'deviancy' etc.)
Music and men in the nature/culture binarism
Music and colonial/postcolonial masculinities (race, territory, 
diaspora, nationhood etc.)
Music, masculinity and education

Potential contributors should send initially a 500-word abstract to the 
email address given below by Friday 29th July 2005. We hope to produce a 
complete manuscript by January 2006 and to publish the volume by early 2007.

Enquiries to the editors Ian Biddle (i.d.biddle em ncl.ac.uk) or Kirsten 
Gibson (kirstenvanessa em hotmail.com)

Abstracts should be sent to: musmasc em jiscmail.ac.uk

-- 
carlos palombini
diretor
centro de pesquisa em música contemporânea
universidade federal de minas gerais
cpmc-ufmg
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