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CFP: U. Arizona – Graduate Conference (Keynote: Kofi Agawu)

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    • 16 October 2018 at 12:40 am EDT #17080

      Matthew Mugmon
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      The Fred Fox School of Music at the University of Arizona (Tucson) is pleased to announce its fourth annual Graduate Student Music Conference, to be held February 15-16, 2019. The conference committee invites graduate students in music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, and music education to submit proposals for papers on any aspect of music research.

      This year’s guest speaker will be Dr. Kofi Agawu. His scholarship explores analytic and critical issues in selected repertories of West Africa and Western Europe musics, and it includes extensive work on semiotics and discourse, chromaticism, music and language, and postcolonial theory.

      Dr. Agawu keynote’s keynote address for the conference is titled \”Finding the Beat in African Music: Further Notes and Caveats.” In addition to the keynote, he will lead a graduate student workshop, \”Bridges to Free Composition,\” which builds on his book Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music.

      Applications for the conference and/or the workshop should be done separately and should be sent electronically to arizona.gsmc@gmail.com no later than Saturday, November 1, 2018.

      Paper proposals should include a paper title and abstract of less than 350 words (including any footnotes) and should not include the author’s name or other identifying information. The proposals should be sent as an MS Word or PDF file. A cover email should include your name, institutional affiliation, degree program, email address, and required equipment for the proposed presentation (piano, powerpoint, audio, etc.). Student papers should last 20 minutes and will be followed by a 10-minute Q&A discussion. Students are also welcome to use alternative forms of presenting (in which case, students should send a separate document explaining their form of presentation.)

      The workshop application only needs to include your name, institutional affiliation, and the degree you are pursuing. Depending on the number of workshop applicants, participants may be selected randomly.

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