[AMS-announce] CFP: Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, Northwestern Univ., Chicago, Apr 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, 2009 Graduate Student Conference

Call for Papers

April 3-4, 2009

Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University 

http://www.music.northwestern.edu/mgmc/

We welcome abstracts written by undergraduate and graduate students pertaining to musicology, ethnomusicology, music analysis, cognition, theory, pedagogy, performance, composition, education, and all other music-related subjects. Selected presentations will be limited to twenty-minute talks followed by ten additional minutes of questions and comments.

Please submit abstracts electronically as either a PDF or a Word document attachment to Jennifer Myers, mgmc2009 at gmail.com. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and must be received by January 1, 2009. Each applicant must submit their abstract in an attachment that contains the title of their presentation but does not contain their name, email address, affiliation, or other identifying features. The e-mail accompanying this abstract should include the applicant's name, affiliation, email address, and phone number and should also list the technological aids needed for the proposed presentation (e.g. piano, CD-player, LCD-projector, etc.) Each applicant may submit up to two abstracts, but only one will be accepted for presentation.
We will select proposals based on originality, clarity, and appropriateness for oral presentation. Interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged. Supplementary materials such as musical examples, diagrams, and bibliographies should be submitted as separate pages, but should not exceed two pages.