Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology

2006

1. Spring 2008 MIDSEM
   March 29-30, 2008 [Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan]
   
   
2. Spring 2007 MIDSEM
   April 20-22, 2007 [Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN]
   
   
3. SEM 2006, Honolulu (Society for Ethnomusicology)
   
   
4. Ethnomusicology in the World: Building on the Laura Boulton Legacy
   A Two-Day Conference, April 13-14, 2007
   
   
5. Queer Vibrations - Friday 30 - Saturday 31 March 2007
   A 2-Day, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on music and queerness to be held at Cornell University.
   
   
6. NWAV 35 "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language Variation" November 9-12 Columbus, OH
   
   
7. Multicultural Narratives and Narrative Theory (Ohio State University, October 25-27, 2007)
   
   
8. Beyond Visibility: Rethinking the African Diaspora in Latin America
   University of California-Berkeley, March 1-2, 2007
   
   
9. 8th WSEAS Intern. Conf. on ACOUSTICS and MUSIC: THEORY and APPLICATIONS (AMTA '07) Vancouver, Canada, June 19-21, 2007
   
   
10. RETHINKING PRECARITY—1ST Annual Graduate Student Conference — Comparative Studies, Ohio State University, January 19, 2007
    
    
11. Call for Papers and Presentations--International Symposium
    Latin American Choral Music: Contemporary Performance and the Colonial Legacy, January 19-21, 2006 University of Arizona
    
    
12. The Pacific Sociological Association(MUSIC-RELATED TOPICS)
    78th Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA, March 29-April 1, 2007
    
    
13. Congress on Research In Dance announcing the 38th Annual Conference: Continuing dance culture dialogues: Southwest Borders and Beyond, November 2-5, 2006, Tempe, Arizona.
    
    
14. Call for Papers & Presentations: Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium VI, June 28 - July 1, 2007

SEM Midwest Chapter (MIDSEM) 2008 Conference

Call for Papers
March 29-30, 2008
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan

The Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (MIDSEM) will hold its annual meeting March 29-30, 2008 at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The conference proper will be preceded by a Javanese Gamelan concert at the University of Michigan on Friday evening, March 28.

The MIDSEM program committee invites SEM members and others interested in ethnomusicology and from allied fields of study to submit proposals for papers, panels, lecture-demos, film/video screenings, or other presentations. Papers or panels will follow a standard format (20-minute presentation, 10-minute discussion); alternative formats are also invited.

The conference especially welcomes proposals and participation from graduate and undergraduate students. The JaFran Jones Award will be awarded for the best student paper.

The program committee is planning this year’s conference as a plenary conference, with all papers presented to the conference as a whole. In order to encourage a wide range of subjects, proposals are welcome on any topic of interest to ethnomusicology. Although there are no fixed themes as such, to whet your appetites here are a few suggestions from a flurry of program committee emails:

Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 250 words, as well as the name(s) of presenter(s), institutional affiliation, title of presentation, format of presentation (paper, panel, etc.), specific A/V equipment requirements and any additional pertinent information. These should be sent by e-mail to Randal Baier, MIDSEM President, at: rbaier@emich.edu.

Deadline: Friday, February 15, 2008. We hope to have final decisions on submissions completed by February 22, 2008.

Program Committee, MIDSEM 2008: Randal Baier (Chair), Christi-Anne Castro, David Harnish, Amy Kimura, Gillian Rodger, Melinda Russell, and Amy Stillman.

For further information, feel free to contact me by email, phone or any other suitable form of mediation.

Spring 2007 MIDSEM

The spring meeting of the MidWest Chapter of Society for Ethnomusicology is tentatively located at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN. Visit here again for details. Meanwhile and for inquiries, contact the new president, Ken Prouty kprouty@indstate.edu.

Ethnomusicology in the World: Building on the Laura Boulton Legacy A Two-Day Conference, April 13-14, 2007 - Call for Abstracts

For nearly a half-century, from the 1920s to the 1970s, Laura Boulton recorded music quite literally all over the world. The geographical range and historical depth, not to mention the sheer volume of recordings, represented in the Laura Boulton Collection at the Archives of Traditional Music* astounds many ethnomusicologists today. Boulton published little, instead preferring public lectures and commercial recordings as her primary means of presenting the results of her field research. Boulton's primary contributions, then, were as a documenter of the world's musical traditions and as a presenter of these traditions to a broad American public. From today's perspective, Boulton can be viewed as an early purveyor of public sector and/or applied ethnomusicology, indeed, even as a popularizer of musical traditions around the world which were, during her era, little known in the general public.

In what ways do contemporary ethnomusicologists build upon Boulton's legacy? The first day of this conference will feature invited speakers who have worked with or conducted research using the Laura Boulton Collection. The second day will feature papers selected from this call for abstracts. Outreach, community collaboration, issues surrounding the documentation of traditions, forms of representation or publication designed for mass audiences-these are just some of the themes that papers might consider.

Presentations during the second day will be forty minutes in length followed by twenty minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 250 words or less and sent via email to Daniel Reed, Director, Archives of Traditional Music, at reed@indiana.edu by Nov. 15, 2006.

This conference is made possible by a grant from the Laura Boulton Foundation.

*Boulton recordings are also held in a number of other institutions, including Columbia University, the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress and the Harvard Archive of World Music.

Queer Vibrations - Friday 30 - Saturday 31 March 2007 A 2-Day, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on music and queerness to be held at Cornell University.

Keynote Speakers

Suzanne Cusick, Associate Professor of Music at NYU, is currently completing a monograph on the early 17th-century singer, teacher and composer Francesca Caccini (University of Chicago Press). She has also chaired the Gay and Lesbian Study Group of the American Musicological Society and served on the editorial board of the Society's journal. Her research interests include music-making in relation to identity and embodiment, feminist approaches to music history and criticism, and queer studies in music.

Judith Peraino, Associate Professor of Music at Cornell University, is the author of Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig (University of California Press, 2006). Her research interests range from medieval secular songs and motets, to the rock artists PJ Harvey and Blondie.

Call for Papers

Proposals are especially welcomed on (though are by no means limited to) the following: music and queer representation in popular culture, gay and lesbian historiography and musical reception, the relationship between performativity, performance and embodiment in queer music-making, and the impact of queer anti-identitarian politics on critical investigations into race, class and sexuality within the field of ethnomusicology.

Papers should last 20 minutes (c. 2400 words). Individuals should submit: (1) paper title, (2) abstract (c. 200-250 words) (3) a brief biography (50-100 words), (4) institutional affiliation and address, (5) audio-visual requirements.

E-mail proposals to Rachel Lewis RAL42@cornell.edu or post them to:
Rachel Lewis
Queer Vibrations
391 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-7601

The closing date for the submission of proposals is Friday 1 December 2006

Beyond Visibility: Rethinking the African Diaspora in Latin America, University of California-Berkeley, March 1-2, 2007

Abstract Submission Deadline: November 3, 2006

In recent years there has been an explosion in scholarship that goes beyond recognizing the presence of Afro-Latin Americans and towards interrogating this topic more deeply. Through this inaugural conference, we intend to build on this momentum--advancing inter-disciplinary scholarship on the African Diaspora in Latin America by moving towards research that critically engages the theoretical and methodological challenges of this research. Organized by the Afro-Latino Working Group at UC Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies, we aim to create a forum for graduate students to dialogue with established scholars whose work explores the African Diaspora in Latin America. This conference will foster new dialogues about race, ethnicity, culture, society, economy, politics and nation in the academic world.

The conference will feature a series of graduate student panels as well as a faculty keynote and roundtable discussion from preeminent scholars working on the African Diaspora in Latin America. We invite abstract submissions from current graduate students on a diverse array of topics and disciplinary orientations that are both theoretical and empirical in content. The conference is oriented towards graduate students pursuing projects about the African Diaspora in the Americas (including Mexico, Central and South America, and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean). Specifically, we strongly encourage papers that address under-theorized regions in the Americas as well as comparative and regional works. We offer the following themes as submission suggestions:

Theory and Pedagogy: New Directions in the Field
Social Movements and the Politics of Race
Media and Cultural Representations
Identity, Race and Ethnicity
Migration and Transnationalism
Folklore and National Identity
Comparative Historical and Literary Analysis

500 word abstracts should be submitted to the organizing committee via email as word documents or PDF files. Please submit abstracts by November 3, 2006. Submissions should include the abstract, current contact information, presentation title and current C.V. Accepted authors will be notified by December 15, along with full submission guidelines for papers and/or presentations. Full papers are due on January 5. All papers and presentations must be available in English. Papers will be made available through the Center for Latin American Studies.

Submissions and inquiries should be sent to: afrolatinogroup@berkeley.edu or via USPS to Vielka C. Hoy, Afro-Latino Working Group, 660 Barrows Hall, #2572, Berkeley, CA 94720.

Call for Papers and Presentations--International Symposium, Latin American Choral Music: Contemporary Performance and the Colonial Legacy January 19-21, 2006 University of Arizona

Hosted by the University of Arizona School of Music, With cooperation from the Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Department of History

Plenary Speakers:
Ricardo Massun, Director, Ensemble Louis Berger, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Craig Russell, Professor of Music, California Polytechnic State University, USA

Closing Concert:
The Arizona Choir
Performance of Misa de Lima by Roque de Ceruti
For the grand opening of Virgins, Saints and Angels:
South American Paintings (1600-1825) from the Toma Collection
Tucson Museum of Art, 3:00 pm, Sunday, January 21, 2006

Contributions are invited to this symposium which aims to bring together scholars and musicians interested in the contemporary performance of Latin American music composed in the colonial period, with special emphasis on choral music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The symposium will be convened as one of several inaugural events launching the new Institute for Music in the Americas at the University of Arizona School of Music and its research center for Colonial Latin American Music. We expect to publish the best of the proceedings from this symposium.

We are particularly interested in papers, panels and workshops on the following topics, although these should not be taken as exclusive:

1. Publication of performance scores - including consideration of major resources, the processes of identifying, evaluating, accessing, and editing manuscripts; as well as the mechanics of contemporary publication and distribution.
2. Matters of performance practice ? including consideration of interpretation, instrumentation, and vocal distribution, as well as decisions balancing authenticity with the demands of contemporary expectations, and values.
3. Recording - including matters of production, evaluation of existing releases, plans for new releases, and strategies appropriate in the age of digital distribution.
4. Engagement- including consideration of representation of Latin American choral music (or related repertoire) in educational programs, curriculum development, and civic events.
5. Aesthetics and style studies including discussions of genre, style, and reception in regional and international contexts.

In all these matters we hope to identify critical issues, needs, priorities, and best practices. Papers should be designed to last no more than 20 minutes. Performance proposals will be scheduled in time frames that best suit the work to be presented; an ideal timing should be submitted with the proposal. All proposals should include:

1. The title of presentation, accompanied by an abstract of no more than 250 words
2. Indication of equipment and audio/visual needs
3. The presenter's contact information

Proposals should be sent electronically by email attachment (.doc or .rtf only) by October 30, 2006 to: Ms. Sherrill Blodget at sblodget@email.arizona.edu.

Presenters will be notified by Nov. 22.

Research Team and Symposium organizers:
Janet Sturman, Bruce Chamberlain, John Brobeck, Jay Rosenblatt
Elizabeth Schauer, Scott Whiteford, Bill Beezley, Monica Morales

The Pacific Sociological Association (MUSIC-RELATED TOPICS) 78th Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA, March 29-April 1, 2007

For application information, go to:
http://www.pacificsoc.org/2006/06/2007_annual_mee.html
Regular Paper Session Topic: Music and Society
Regular Paper Session Topic: Performance and Authenticity in Music
Roundtable Session Topic: The Sociology of Music

Congress on Research In Dance announcing the 38th Annual Conference: Continuing dance culture dialogues: Southwest Borders and Beyond, November 2-5, 2006, Tempe, Arizona.

This conference will bring together pioneers in dance and anthropology with contemporary scholars in the field of cross-cultural dance studies. A primary objective is to reexamine theories and methods for dance cultural studies introduced at the 1972 CORD conference held in Tucson, Arizona. Connecting past and present, the 2006 conference continues dialogues that explore current and innovative research within the framework of human cultures and societies.

At the heart of dance cultural study is the comparative process, which considered emic and etic perspectives and investigative strategies. Emic frames are subjective points of view by participants in the culture as well as by individual scholars who are researching selective dance cultures. Conversely, etic frames are objective points of view that researchers employ to study phenomena comparatively. Interaction between emic and etic views facilitate holistic interpretation and fundamentally define the process of cross-cultural or comparative dance study. To promote the most comprehensive inquiry of this process, the 2006 CORD conference with CCDR at Arizona State University Department of Dance will provide a forum for the presentation of scholarly papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and activities that focus on emic and etic views and approaches as they pertain to dance cultures and dance researchers/scholars.

Highlights of the 2006 conference will include a keynote speech by Allegra Fuller Snyder, the co-coordinator for the 1972 CORD conference, a guest presentation by Steven Feld, McArthur fellow and ethnomusicologist, a pre- conference event "A Window into the Ritual Dances of Guadalupe, Arizona: a Special CCDR Event" at the world-renowned Heard Museum, an In Memoriam tribute, the Inauguration of the new CCDR Headquarters at ASU, the Rhythms of Life concert, and a centennial tribute to Eleanor King.

For registration, lodging and a more detailed schedule of events, please visit our Web site www.cordance.org and click on the conference link. Or email conference liaison at Emily.Wright@asu.edu.

FOR REGISTRATION FORM CONTACT: Pegge Vissicaro icpzv@asu.edu

J. Richard Haefer
School of Music
Arizona State University

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