Spanish musics and their [Western] Others: Negotiating identity and
exoticism

Friday 7   Saturday 8 December 2012

The University of Melbourne, Australia

Western Music and entertainment have drawn on features of Spanish
music and dance since at least the Napoleonic wars. In turn,
constructions of musical exoticism based on Hispanic tropes have
informed different manifestations of Spanish musical nationalism, as
well as regional and popular musics of Spain. These  Spanish  musical
identities have evolved and been reconfigured according to the
dictates of competing cultural, political and social factors, yet
Spain's unique position and its enactment of cultural identity cannot
easily be reconciled within current narratives of musical nationalism
and exoticism.

Papers are invited that examine Spanish musical identity, engage with
Western evocations of Spanish music, or explore such repertories in
relation to constructions of nationalism and exoticism since 1800.

Papers may address repertories or issues relating to one of the
following areas (or others related to the conference theme):
  Western art music
  Dance and theatrical spectacle
  National and regional musics
  Popular musics
  Flamenco
  Music and film

Please submit an abstract of not more than 250 words, with a brief
biographical note, to Michael Christoforidis, by emailing  mchri at
unimelb.edu.au

by Monday 30 April 2012

Paper-givers will be notified by the mid-May, but if you need earlier
notification, please indicate this in your submission.

There will be a publication of refereed proceedings.

Accommodation (2 nights) will be provided for international
presenters.