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Call for Abstracts 2010
The Columbia Music Scholarship
Conference invites graduate students to submit abstracts to be selected for
presentation at our seventh annual meeting, which will take place on March
6, 2010 at Columbia University. We are soliciting proposals from scholars
active in all fields related to the academic study of music. If relevant to
the conference topic, proposals are also welcome from scholars in other
disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, and from students in
the fields of arts administration and music education.
The current global economic crisis
has significantly impacted the financial health of institutions devoted to
the production, dissemination, study, and performance of music, as it has
also affected individual artists and arts organizations as a whole. This
situation, coupled with the dramatic restructuring of the recording and
publishing sectors in the wake of information age advances, makes a
discussion of music’s relationship to economics particularly pertinent. How
does economics affect musical activity, and how does musical activity
affect economics? In what ways can the value of music be understood and
measured, both quantitatively and qualitatively? Studies of the complex
relationship between music and economics could encompass multiple
approaches focusing on a wide range of historical periods, cultures,
societies, and various forms of musical activity, including composition,
publication, distribution, performance, consumption, and mechanical
reproduction. Historical,
biographical, sociological, textual, philosophical and ethnographic
methodologies, to name just a few possibilities, have much to contribute to
these studies.
Possible topics include, but are not
limited to, the following: changing sources of musical patronage;
reflections of monetary and economic issues in the content of musical
works; the nature and value of celebrity; the relationship of musical
activities to socio-economic structures in different times and places;
socio-economic status of musicians; the place of musical and other artistic
institutions in economic theories; music and class distinctions; music and
globalization; cultural critiques of music’s relation to finance and
business; relationships between the music industry and non-musical, even
non-artistic, industries; connections between the economic value of music
and related explorations of its cultural, historical, political, and/or
aesthetic value.
Proposals/Abstracts: Abstracts of 250
words, including a title, should be submitted electronically by December
11, 2009 to: musicandmoney2010@gmail.com.
Please include your name and contact information in your email only,
and attach the abstract as a Word, text, or .pdf
file. The committee will select
papers anonymously. All scholars who
submit abstracts will be notified of the committee's decision by December
22, 2009
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