[AMS-announce] CFP: POP! Musical Excess and Artifice, CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University, New York City, March 2008

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CALL FOR PAPERS/PERFORMANCES/COMPOSITIONS

City University of New York Graduate Students in Music 11th Annual 
Conference and the 5th Annual Columbia Music Scholarship Conference 
present POP! Musical Excess and Artifice

Friday and Saturday, March 7-8, 2008
CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University, New York City

Keynote Speakers: PHILIP AUSLANDER, Georgia Institute of Technology, 
and NADINE HUBBS, University of Michigan

This conference hopes to find common threads in discourse on musical 
artifice and excess across historical periods, geographic boundaries, 
and methodological approaches. We invite proposals relating to 
musical "inauthenticity" and excess, extravagant virtuosity, extreme 
compositional complexity, aspects of showpersonship,  onstage and 
offstage artist personae, masquerade, costuming and disguising, 
clowning and "playing the fool," and other expressions of 
performative and musical artifice.

We encourage submissions from graduate students across all musical 
disciplines including ethnomusicologists, historical musicologists, 
music theorists, performers, and composers. We also welcome 
interdisciplinary approaches including performance studies, literary 
theory, gender studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, film theory, 
cultural studies, history, and American studies. Lecture-recitals and 
other performative events are highly encouraged.

Our conference will feature a concert of new compositions and 
performances that address the theme of the conference. We invite 
submissions that explore notions of virtuosity, "inauthenticity," 
showmanship, and excess, in theoretical, compositional, or performative realms.

Proposals/Abstracts: Please submit a 300-500 word proposal for all 
papers and performances to POPconference at gmail.com by January 15,
2008.  Please include a list of technical requirements, including A/V 
equipment, performance space, instruments, etc.  Papers will be 
limited to 20 minutes, although we will consider longer 
lecture-performances or panels.