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Call for Abstracts:
SOUND AT PLAY: MUSIC, HUMOR, AND GAMES
Columbia Music Scholarship Conference 2011
The Columbia Music Scholarship Conference invites graduate students and
recent Ph.D. recipients to submit abstracts to be selected for presentation
at our eighth annual meeting on March 5, 2011 at Columbia University. We
are soliciting proposals from scholars active in all fields related to the
academic study of music, as well as other areas within the humanities,
social sciences, education, or science and technology studies.
We seek to seriously consider music as play. The many ways
that composers, performers, intermediaries, and listeners play with music
and sound allow us to examine music as a locus of humor, competition, rule,
risk, pleasure, and amusement. Musical games teach us about social order
early in our lives, yet musical humor is often profoundly subversive of
social and cultural forms and structures. As various commercial sectors
capitalize on the musically humorous, playful, and competitive, they also
help produce new modes of sociability and musicality. How do humor and
games influence musical activity and how does playful musicality produce
the humorous? How have composers incorporated games and play into their
works and how does musical humor affect cultural and economic value?
Paper topics on music, humor, and games could encompass
approaches focusing on a broad range of historical periods, cultures,
societies, and various forms of musical activity, including composition,
performance, distribution, consumption, and mechanical reproduction. CMSC
aims to produce a fruitful methodological counterpoint by representing
historical, biographical, sociological, textual, philosophical, and
ethnographic approaches to the study of music and sound as play.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the
following: musical puns; timing, expectation and indeterminacy; “game
pieces” and aleatoric composition; irony in
music; music in computer/video games; music and sports; dance games; farce;
comic opera; humor and games in musical improvisation; musical games as
education; playful modes of musical sociality; cultural and economic value
of the musically humorous; musical drinking games; musical play in
childhood, adolescence, and among adults; subversion and competition in
composition, performance, and consumption.
Proposals/Abstracts:
Abstracts of 250 words, including a title, should be submitted
electronically by December 15, 2010
to: SoundatPlay2011@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,
2010.
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