[AMS-announce] CFP: Queer Vibrations, A 2-Day, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on music and queerness, Ithaca NY, March 2007

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Queer Vibrations

Friday 30 - Saturday 31 March 2007 

A 2-Day, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on music and queerness to be held at Cornell University. 
 

Keynote Speakers 

Suzanne Cusick, Associate Professor of Music at NYU, is currently completing a monograph on the early 17th-century singer, teacher and composer Francesca Caccini (University of Chicago Press). She has also chaired the Gay and Lesbian Study Group of the American Musicological Society and served on the editorial board of the Society's journal. Her research interests include music-making in relation to identity and embodiment, feminist approaches to music history and criticism, and queer studies in music. 

Judith Peraino, Associate Professor of Music at Cornell University, is the author of Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig (University of California Press, 2006). Her research interests range from medieval secular songs and motets, to the rock artists PJ Harvey and Blondie. 

Call for Papers

Proposals are especially welcomed on (though are by no means limited to) the following: music and queer representation in popular culture, gay and lesbian historiography and musical reception, the relationship between performativity, performance and embodiment in queer music-making, and the impact of queer anti-identitarian politics on critical investigations into race, class and sexuality within the field of ethnomusicology. 

Papers should last 20 minutes (c. 2400 words). Individuals should submit: (1) paper title, (2) abstract (c. 200-250 words) (3) a brief biography (50-100 words), (4) institutional affiliation and address, (5) audio-visual requirements. 
 

E-mail proposals to Rachel Lewis RAL42 at cornell.edu or post them to:

Rachel Lewis

Queer Vibrations

391 Uris Hall 
Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853-7601 

The closing date for the submission of proposals is Friday 1 December 2006