CFP: Music and Philosophy Study Group, AMS Louisville 2015
Amy Cimini
Hi everyone,
Below, please find a CFP for the AMS Music and Philosophy Study Group's events at AMS 2015 in Louisville,
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Amy
CFP: Music and Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity
AMS Music and Philosophy Study Group
Louisville, 2015
How can philosophical approaches to music tackle the topics of race and ethnicity? And how might philosophical approaches to race respond to the specificity of musical experience? In this call for papers, the AMS Music and Philosophy Study Group seeks proposals that address music through philosophical accounts of race and critical race theory, as well as philosophical approaches to music that are oriented towards the question of race. Approaches might query the moral status of the concept of race, the problem of racism, or the dynamics of racial identity and its linkages with ethnicity, while relating them to questions specific to music: for example, the contested boundaries of intellectual property, epistemologies of literate and vernacular modes of reproduction, the affective dimensions of musical experience, and the ways various ontologies of music are defined by racial formations. We hope to represent a range of musical situations: in cities and megacities, rural and peripheral, sacred and secular, colonial and postcolonial, as well as among diasporic groups.
The MPSG will hold two linked sessions at this year's AMS. Our daytime business meeting will host papers devoted to the general topic of Music and Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity. For the evening session, we would like to program a panel of three proposed papers and two invited speakers for a discussion that is more narrowly focused on the work of W.E.B. Du Bois. Thus, we welcome proposals engaged with Du Bois’ musical thought, as well as applications and critical responses to his philosophy that are placed in dialogue with musical practices.
The sessions will feature papers of eight to ten minutes each, and will be oriented towards discussion. Those interested should send a proposal of 250 words (maximum) to the following email address: philosophymusic[at]gmail[dot]com.
The deadline for submissions is midnight E.S.T. on Monday, May 18, 2015
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Assistant Professor of Music
University of California San Diego
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