[AMS-announce] CFP: AMS South-Central Chapter, Mar 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

South-Central Chapter of the American Musicological Society, March 27-28, 2009
Deadline for Submissions: Friday, January 9, 2009

The South-Central Chapter of the American Musicological Society (AMS-SC) is pleased to
announce its 2009 Annual Meeting, to be hosted by Vanderbilt University in Nashville,
Tennessee. The meeting will begin on the morning of Friday, March 27, and will conclude by
noon on Saturday, March 28. Proposals for presentations, special sessions, papers with a
performance component, and panel discussions are solicited on any topic related to historical
musicology. Presentations will be limited to twenty minutes, with an additional ten minutes
allotted for questions and discussion.

Submissions should include the following:

An abstract of no more than 250 words, suitable for publication. Abstracts should be concise
but thorough and clearly indicate the scope of your research, the research methods
employed, and your conclusions. Please include the proposal’s title at the top of the page
and indicate the author’s name, mailing address, email address, phone number, institutional
affiliation or place of residence, and AV equipment needs at the bottom. A note from an
adviser or other faculty member verifying student status should accompany each abstract
submitted by a student. Student members of the AMS-SC whose abstracts are selected by the
program committee will be eligible to compete in the Rey M. Longyear Student Paper
Competition. This award, given in memory of Professor Longyear, will be announced at the
chapter meeting.

Submission Instructions:

Electronic submission:
Please submit your abstract electronically if possible, as an email attachment in Microsoft
Word® format. The filename should be your last name. All abstracts submitted by email
should be sent no later than midnight on January 9, 2009. Receipt of your submission will be
acknowledged via an email reply.

Email proposals to:
kkarnes at emory.edu

Surface Mail Submission:
All abstracts submitted by surface mail should be postmarked no later than Friday, January 9,
2009. Please submit four copies of your abstract if submitting via surface mail.

Mail proposals to:

Kevin Karnes, Program Chair
South-Central Chapter, AMS
Emory University Department of Music
1804 North Decatur Road
Atlanta, GA 30322