MUSIC'S INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: FOUNDERS, FOLLOWERS & FADS

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MUSIC'S INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: FOUNDERS, FOLLOWERS & FADS

First conference of the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale
The City University of New York Graduate Center
4-6 November 2004

In early 2004, the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale (RILM)
will publish the volume Speaking of Music: Music Conferences from 1835 to
1966, which will provide a fascinating window on the intellectual history
of music scholarship. The volume guides readers through papers on music
presented at some 500 international conferences, bringing to light a
variety of trends and ideas in musicological and ethnomusicological
inquiry from the heyday of Romanticism through the dawn of modernism to
the multicultural and multidisciplinary movements of the mid-20th century.
This volume, chronicling 130 years of music scholarship's intellectual
history, will provide a starting point for the conference, which aims to
assess changing attitudes and viewpoints in writings on music from
antiquity to the present day.

Proposals are invited for papers on the following topics:
* The attitudes of writers toward music history in antiquity, the Middle
Ages, and the Renaissance
* The founders of modern music scholarship: Historians of the 18th and
19th centuries
* Music scholarship and its parallels with histories of other humanistic
disciplines (art history, anthropology, literary criticism, history,
etc.)
* (Re)writing music history in the postcolonial and post-communist world
* New musicology
* Ethnomusicology and musicology in the Americas
* Relating the present to the past: From studies of musical folklore to
modern ethnomusicology
* Reference books as a mirror of national music histories. How objective
and balanced are these (self-)portraits of national music histories in
general encyclopedias, and how do they change through successive
editions?
* What can reference works from the past tell us about the reception
history of composers? Why are composers' biographies being rewritten?

Abstracts of 200-300 words may be submitted before 29 February 2004 to:
Zdravko Blazekovic
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
The City University of New York Graduate School
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309, USA
Telephone: +1-212/817-1992, Fax: +1-212/817-1569
e-mail: zblazekovic@gc.cuny.edu

The conference will take place at the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York. Proposals are invited for individual papers and
entire sessions. For further information visit RILM's site at
http://www.rilm.org

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:35 am Post subject:

eeeeeeeeeeek! This is wildly interesting stuff! THX Carlo!

seraph · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:09 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:14 am Post subject:

BTW: did you see my mail re the Getz/Gilberto record?

seraph · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:35 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:49 am Post subject:

BTW I see Coolcube ( Marco Pozzi ) has registered.. he is a designer .. he lives in London