[ANPPOM-L] CFP: Music and Crisis

[carlos palombini]

Music and Crisis

10 March 2007

A day-long graduate student conference to be held at Harvard University.

Keynote Speaker

Christoph Wolff, Adams University Professor at Harvard University, Curator of the Isham Memorial Library, Director of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig, President of the Commission mixte of RISM, Board member of the Packard Humanities Institute, winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award for his Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (2000).

Call for Papers

The conference theme should be interpreted broadly, and proposals of an interdisciplinary nature are especially welcome.  Potential topics might include, but are by no means limited to, the following: music in times of crisis, crises in music theory, polemics in music criticism, musical works resulting from a crisis (personal or otherwise), music in times of war, musicology in times of war, crisis in music's disciplines. 

Proposals are welcome from students engaged in all areas of musical scholarship (including musicologists, ethnomusicologists, theorists, performers, and composers), as well as from those in anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, philosophy, and related fields.

Papers should last 20 minutes.  Please submit the following materials: (1) paper title; (2) abstract of approximately 250 words; (3) institutional affiliation and contact information; (4) audio-visual requirements.  All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. In order to offset costs to participants, accommodation in Cambridge will be made by graduate students of the Harvard music department.

Email proposals to Jonathan Kregor, kregor at fas.harvard.edu, or mail them to:

Jonathan Kregor
Department of Music
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

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The deadline for submissions is Friday, 15 December 2006.