[ANPPOM-L] CFP: CHARM Symposium 6, 'Playing with recordings'

[carlos palombini]

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CHARM (the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded
Music) will be holding its sixth residential symposium, 'Playing with
recordings', at Egham (near London) on 11-13 September 2008.

How do musicians use recordings and what has been their impact? In this
final CHARM symposium we explore the attitudes towards recordings of
performers and teachers, along with the ways in which recordings
contribute to both the maintenance of musical culture and processes of
style change. Do recordings prompt or inhibit style change? Have they
resulted in stylistic convergence, as is often claimed? And what is the
relationship between such processes and the technological or business
history of recording? Might technology and business practices be seen as
the principal drivers of performance style in the age of recordings? In
addressing the interface between recordings and the professional
practice of performance, the symposium will prepare the transition to
CHARM's successor centre from April 2009, the AHRC Research Centre for
Musical Performance as Creative Practice (http://www.cmpcp.ac.uk).

Speakers and panellists will include John Carewe, Mine Dogantan-Dack,
Martin Elste, Anthony Gritten, Pekka Gronow, Peter Martland, Nick
Morgan, Ian Partridge, David Patmore, and Jeremy Summerly. We have space
in the programe for a limited number of additional presentations
relevant to the symposium topic, and now invite proposals. Please email
abstracts of up to 400 words to Carol Chan (carol.chan em rhul.ac.uk) by
***15 July 2008***. We will get back to you by the end of that month.
There will be no parallel sessions, and presentation slots will be
generous: this is why space is limited, and we apologize if demand for
slots exceeds availability. If you have questions about the academic
content of the symposium, please direct them to Nicholas Cook
(nicholas.cook em rhul.ac.uk).

A separate announcement will be made for those who wish to attend
without presenting. If you would like to register your interest at this
time, please email Carol and we shall contact you when booking
arrangements have been finalised.

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AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music
http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk

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carlos palombini
professor adjunto de musicologia, ufmg
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