[AMS-announce] CFP (reminder): Music and Minimalism, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, Sep 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

The Society for Minimalist Music announces a call for papers for its Second International Conference on Music and Minimalism, which will be held at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, September 2-6 2009.  The Festival's co-directors are Kyle Gann and David D. Mcintire.  SMM invites all scholars working in the area of minimalist music to submit proposals of papers for presentations of 20 minutes each. Possible subjects include, but are not limited to, the following:

- both American and European (and other) minimalist music;
- early minimalism of the 1950s and '60s;
- outgrowths of minimalism into postminimalism, totalism, and oher movements;
- minimalist music's relation to pop music or visual art;
- performance problems in minimalist music;
- analyses or investigation of music by La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, Louis Andriessen, Gavin Bryars;
- especially encouraged are papers on crucial but less public figures such as Tony Conrad, Phill Niblock, Jon Gibson, Eliane Radigue, Rhys Chatham, Barbara Benary, Julius Eastman, and others.

Deadline for proposals, from 300 to 500 words, is January 31, which should be e-mailed to 

kgann at earthlink.net (Kyle Gann)

and 

compositeurkc at sbcglobal.net (David D. McIntire)

The committee to select papers will consist of Kyle Gann, Keith Potter, Pwyll ap Sion (codirector of the first conference, and author of a new book on Michael Nyman), and Andrew Granade.