[ANPPOM-L] CFP: Essay collection, Music and Trauma

[carlos palombini]

I am writing to invite contributions to a collection of essays on music 
in relation to trauma. Essays in the collection will relate aspects of 
trauma to aspects of music in a range of ways. Trauma may be understood 
as individual or collective/social; as the result of particular 
traumatic events or as the ?insidious trauma? of sustained negative 
experiences, e. g. of racism or sexism etc. Any musics - popular, 
vernacular, concert, ritual, etc. - may figure in these essays. Essays 
may be case studies, or more general or theoretical treatments. The 
collection will represent a range of disciplines within music 
scholarship, and will draw on various non-musical disciplines within 
which trauma has been discussed, including psychiatry, psychoanalysis, 
literary studies, historiography, etc.

Contributions already agreed upon deal with childhood sexual abuse, 
childhood experiences of war, spousal abuse, responses to the Holocaust, 
and responses to AIDS; authors come from primary backgrounds in 
musicology, music therapy, ethnomusicology, and composition. I hope this 
call for proposals will yield further expansion of topics and 
approaches; additional treatments of topics already represented will 
also be welcome.

Essays will be around 8000 words in length, though some variety is 
possible. Here is the anticipated schedule:
1. submission of proposals for essays by September 23, 2007; my 
decisions shortly thereafter;
2. my preparation of a prospectus for submission to press, October 2007; 
formal abstracts, author bios, and other supporting materials due to me 
by October 7 if possible;
3. completed essays due to me in May 2008;
4. my editing of essays and submission to press by September 2008.

Please send, by September 23, a description of work that you wish to 
contribute, to me as the collection editor: Fred E. Maus, University of 
Virginia, at fem2x at virginia.edu. A description along the lines of an 
abstract would be helpful, as would any draft material (such as the text 
of a conference presentation) that you can supply.

-- 
carlos palombini (dr p)
professor adjunto de musicologia
universidade federal de minas gerais
<cpalombini em gmail.com>

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