[ANPPOM-L] CFP: Comin' Out Swingin': Sexualities in Improvisation

[carlos palombini]

Comin’ Out Swingin’: Sexualities in Improvisation A Symposium
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
November 16 & 17 2007

Improvised and Creative New Musics have been on the upswing in recent 
years, but listeners, critics and scholars have said little, so far, 
about the relationships of the various forms and practices of 
improvisation to gender and sexuality. Compositions and performances in 
recent years have placed the cultural politics of gender directly at 
issue, while many recorded works from the history of improvised music 
and jazz provoke a reconsideration of the music’s relationship to 
sexuality and identity. With an ear to addressing this gap, the second 
Creative Music Think Tank invites proposals for critical and scholarly 
conference papers on gender, sexuality and improvisation. Essays can 
range from theoretical to practical, from aesthetic to political in 
their aims and methods, and interdisciplinary work is both welcome and 
encouraged. We are especially interested in provocative, informed work 
that deals with improvisation in as unlimited a sense as possible. 
Submissions are invited from both academic and non-academic writers and 
critics.

The symposium will be held in Vancouver from November 16 & 17, 2007, and 
will be coordinated with a set of evening concerts. Selected papers from 
the conference will be published in a special issue of Critical Studies 
in Improvisation, http://www.criticalimprov.com/public/csi/index.html.

Please submit conference-paper proposals of no more than 500 words — 
finished papers should conform to a 20-minute delivery — by July 15, 
2007 to Dr. Kevin McNeilly mcneilly at interchange.ubc.ca or Dr. Julie 
Smith julie at coastaljazz.ca

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