[ANPPOM-Lista] CFP: Queerness, Voice, Embodiment - 2nd Symposium of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group

[Carlos Palombini]

*Call for Papers: Queerness, Voice, Embodiment*
2nd Symposium of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group
https://lgbtqmusicsg.wordpress.com/

20th-21st April 2018
Maynooth University (near Dublin)

*Deadline: December 11, 2017*

Elizabeth Woods’s essay ‘Sapphonics’ (1994) set in motion new discourses
on the voice in music studies. With an example of the unique expressive
qualities of lesbian difference and desire, Sapphonics questions the
universally assumed traits of physical vocal mechanisms to emphasise the
particular embodied circumstances of production and performance.
Grappling with similar questions of difference and agency, Gayatri
Spivak’s ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ (1988) articulated the predicament
of Subaltern voices addressing issues of(post) coloniality and
patriarchy. Neither essay delimits the possibilities of what voicing
entails, rather both cut across disciplinary boundaries in search of
voices that intersect various dimensions of identity, including gender,
sexuality, race, class, caste, to name a few.

This Symposium, the second of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Groups, revisits
questions of voice to open dialogue in music studies on the many
in/visible mechanisms affecting the voices of the marginalised in music
disciplines. What are queer voices? Who speaks for and of whom? How do
voices inscribe or limit agency of LGBTQ+ subjects? As LGBTQ+ politics
become more mainstream, what other voices are left unheard? In addition
to paper presentations, the symposium will include a panel on the
subject of ‘LGBTQ+ Identities, ethnicities and nationalism in Irish and
UK contexts,’ and a roundtable discussion of mental health and the
LGBTQ+ community in university music departments. This year’s keynote
speaker is Melanie Marshall (University College Cork), whose interests
span sixteenth-century Italian music, modern performance of early music,
intersectionality in music studies, gender & sexuality, and feminism. We
welcome proposals for individual 20-minute presentations, shorter
provocations, organised 60-minute panels and roundtable discussions that
draw on and expand on music and the following themes:

•Queer of colour critique and further intersections of race, ethnicity,
class, disability, caste
•Queerness, the body and embodiment
•Voice and trans experiences
•Queer approaches to early music and apparently heteronormative contexts
•Irish LGBTQ+ communities
•Queerness, religion and spirituality
•Embodying queerness in research and teaching
•LGBT activism, homonationalism, LGBT imperialism

Please submit an abstract (250 words for individual presentations and
provocations; 500 words for panels and roundtables) and a short bio (50
words per presenter) by 11th December 2017 to: lgbtqmusicsg em gmail.com
<mailto:lgbtqmusicsg em gmail.com>

Interested in attending without presentation? Please register via the
email address above by 2nd March 2018 and indicate if you require
university accommodation. There will be a small registration fee for the
event.