CFP: Global Musical Modernisms blog
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The Global Musical Modernisms blog is a forum for all forms of music created, received and appropriated as “modern” in any location around the globe, crossing the boundaries of post/tonality. The focus is primarily but not exclusively on art, avant-garde, experimental, and modernist music, by global (African, East/Southeast/South/Central Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American) composers, minority composers from the West, and composers from the peripheries of Europe and North America. The blog currently contains posts on works of modern music by Indonesian (Rahayu Supanggah), US BIPOC (Hale Smith), Brazilian (César Guerra-Peixe), Korean (Unsuk Chin), Japanese (Toru Takemitsu, Joji Yuasa, Toshio Hosokawa, Jo Kondo), Chinese (Cui Jian), Estonian (Helena Tulve) and Danish (Per Nørgård) composers.
I would like to invite authors who wish to contribute to the 2022 collection of posts to write to Gavin Lee (gavinsklee -at- gmail.com) with (i) a brief self-introduction and (ii) a short proposal mentioning a specific work to be discussed in the blog post by Dec 1, 2021.
The published post of 1000-1500 words is an accessible piece of writing (with analytical graphs where appropriate) that is a scholarly guide to one work of modern music. There is no limit on the number of posts which may be published, provided they serve as well-written introductions to modern works. Posts can be viewed here: https://globalmusicalmodernisms.hcommons.org/
Completed posts will undergo a peer review and peer editing process, where writers will be reviewers/editors for each other's posts, with an eye to adherence to academic conventions, including use of footnotes, videos and (if applicable) lyrics and musical examples.
Have a look at the Humanities Commons website (which the blog is part of), where you can: upload your articles and scores of compositions; create and maintain a bibliography and teaching resources documents etc. I would encourage you to do the following at the HC website:
a) Click on "Join Group" https://hcommons.org/groups/global-musical-modernisms/
b) Upload your own publications (under "From CORE")
c) Update the bibliography with your own publications (under "Docs")
d) Upload scores which you write about in your publications (with composers’ permission, under "Files")
e) Upload syllabi and teaching resources (under "Files"). This might be a 20C music survey syllabus which incorporates global musical modernism, or PDF of composers’ sketches (with their permission)