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Call for Papers 2006 We invite paper submissions for its third annual conference, Music Performance and Improvisation, to be held on February 3-4, 2006 at Columbia University. Recent scholars in the humanities and social sciences have called for a redirection of academic work away from hermeneutical interpretation towards a focus on performance and issues of presence, materiality, and embodiment. Music scholarship seems particularly well positioned to participate in such a dialogue and recent work in musicology has anticipated this broader turn towards the performative. George E. Lewis' work on the origins of Afrological and Eurological improvisatory performance has been particularly important in understanding the interdependence of their cultural lineages. Carolyn Abbate has called for a direct engagement with performance by musicologists that challenges a view of music as a social text to be deciphered, suggesting instead that scholars engage with the drastic and subjective act of music making. Some music theoretical writing has perhaps best anticipated and, in its own manner, led the way for such discussions of the immediacy of performed experience. Studies by theorists such as Nicholas Cook, Marion A. Guck, and Suzanne G. Cusick have directed attention towards the materiality of sound and the intimate embodied relationships that are produced through listening and performance. This conference seeks further engagement with the issues raised by the authors mentioned above, as well as an expansion of these questions beyond their current limits. We also seek to interrogate the role of performance and improvisation as they relate to our own work as writers on and performers of music. Our goal is to open up all fields of scholarship to the importance of music as performed, improvised, and lived experience as it is perceived across the boundaries of music genres, disciplines and cultures. Possible approaches to the conference theme include:      • Community building through performance and improvisation      • Intercultural and transnational improvisation      • The phenomenology of listening      • The politics of improvisation      • Technologies of presence and embodiment      • Ontologies of performance and composition      • Musical performances of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation      • Music and embodiment      • Performance, presence and the production of meaning      • Challenges to music analysis through improvisation and performance      • Music writing, criticism, and analysis as performance      • Historical performance practice We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations from any graduate student whose work engages music within and beyond these frameworks. Outstanding papers from among those chosen for the conference will be considered for publication in Current Musicology. Submissions should include:              1. A 500 word proposal              2. A 250 word abstract              3. Indication of any special audio-visual needs              4. The author's contact information. Both the proposal and abstract should be accompanied by a title. To ensure anonymous evaluations, please omit the author's name (or any other identifying marks) from the proposal and abstract proper. Proposals may be submitted electronically (.pdf, .rtf and .doc only) to cmsc@columbia.edu or mailed to:                                       The Columbia Music Scholarship Conference                                       Department of Music                                       Columbia University                                       621 Dodge Hall                                       New York, NY 10027 Submissions must be postmarked by October 31, 2005. Authors will be notified in November of our decision.	CMSC 2006 when: February 3–4, 2006 where: Columbia University theme: Music Performance and Improvisation keynote speakers: George Lewis and Carolyn Abbate. submission deadlines     scores: October 31, 2005     papers: October 31, 2005 contact: cmsc@columbia.edu. The organizers of the CMSC would like to thank the following for their support: counter)induction Current Musicology Collegium Musicum Columbia Composers Department of Music Graduate Student Advisory Council The Fritz Reiner Center The Alice M. Ditson Fund Columbia University