[ANPPOM-L] CFP Reminder: Music and the Asian Diaspora (Deadline: Feb. 5)

[Carlos Palombini]

Music and the Asian Diaspora
Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, NJ
April 8-9, 2006

Call for Papers
Westminster Choir College of Rider University (Princeton, NJ) is pleased
to announce a symposium on “Music and the Asian Diaspora” to be held April
8-9, 2006.  The symposium will feature:
-- a keynote address by Ajay Kapur (University of Victoria) entitled
"21st-Century Ethnomusicology: Adopting the Age of Human-Computer
Interaction."  Mr. Kapur has performed on percussion instruments for 14
years while studying world rhythms, composition, Indian classical theory,
and computer-based music theory.  He is currently working on developing
intelligent music and media technology.  His recent article, “Digitizing
North Indian Performance,” won the Journal of New Music Research
Distinguished Best Paper Award in 2004;
-- a lecture and a screening of two films, My Brown Eyes and True, by Jay
Koh.  A native of South Korea, Mr. Koh and his family immigrated to the
United States in 1979.  Koh is the executive director of Kingstreet Media,
a non-profit motion picture production company dedicated to educating and
developing new and emerging talent in the Asian American community.
Kingstreet Media strives to produce films that demystify Asian Americans
and other under-represented communities that Hollywood and the mass media
have left behind;
-- a Saturday evening concert that features traditional Asian music as
well as contemporary Asian-American music.  Scheduled performers include
Gamelan Dharma Swara and happyfunsmile.

Proposals for papers (30-minute presentation plus 15-minute question
period) on topics related to “Music and the Asian Diaspora” (broadly
defined) are currently accepted.  This symposium seeks to be inclusive,
and welcomes proposals from the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology,
music education, composition, and performance.

Papers on the following topics are particularly encouraged:
-- music in “overseas Asian communities”
-- the teaching of Asian musics in North American and European schools and
universities
-- Asian-influenced music by non-Asian composers.

Proposals should be in the form of an abstract of no more than 500 words
(including a list of AV equipment needs), and must be submitted via email
to Eric Hung (ehung em rider.edu) by February 5, 2006.

Presenters at this symposium will have the opportunity to publish their
papers in a special interdisciplinary issue of Visions of Research in
Music Education.

Additional information about the conference, including registration forms
and transportation/lodging options, will be posted on the conference
website, www.musicandtheasiandiaspora.com, February 1, 2006.

Westminster Choir College is a residential college of music located on a
23-acre campus in Princeton, New Jersey.  Our student body includes 330
enrolled in the four-year undergraduate programs leading to the Bachelor
of Music and Bachelor of Arts in Music degrees, 110 graduate students
working toward the Master of Music degree.  We also offer two summer-study
degree programs: Master of Music Education and Master of Voice Pedagogy.

-- 
carlos palombini
diretor
centro de pesquisa em música contemporânea
universidade federal de minas gerais
cpmc-ufmg
<palombini em terra.com.br>