[AMS-announce] CFP: 2009 Echo Conference: Music and Humor, UCLA, June 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

Call For Papers
2009 Echo Conference: Music and Humor
June 5-6, 2009
Submission deadline: February 27, 2009
University of California, Los Angeles 

Music and Humor 

Keynote Speaker: Andrew Dell’Antonio 
University of Texas, Austin 

>From bawdy troubadour songs to Haydn’s string quartets, from comic opera to Monty Python sketches, music has been used as a vehicle for comedic expression in vastly different settings and for various purposes. There are many possible avenues of inquiry on this issue, including investigations of irony, parody, satire, camp, puns, and other perhaps less tasteful form of comic relief.  

Echo: a music-centered journal is pleased to announce its fourth annual conference, "Music and Humor," to be held at UCLA on June 5-6, 2009. Scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit proposals for papers on this theme.  Submissions must be received by February 27th and may be sent electronically to echoconf at ucla.edu (please put "Echo Conference Submission" and your last name in the subject line). 

Please visit http://www.echo.ucla.edu/Volume8-Issue1/conference09.html for full information.