Call for papers:
Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound
University of Stellenbosch (South Africa), 9-11 September 2013
Landscapes are divided and dissonant sites of private and collective being. They bear traces of present, past and future ambitions, injustices, and interventions. And yet, their grammars and sounds, whether intimate, commodified or instrumentalised, push at the limits of theory and representation and simultaneously construct systems of aesthetic, ideological, historical and political appropriation.
The second meeting of the ‘Hearing Landscape Critically’ network is concerned with finding ways to articulate and listen to landscape that challenge established patterns of cognition and intervention, and which probe the archival and everyday silences and ruptures exacerbated by social, political and intellectual intervention. Following the first meeting at Oxford University, May 2012, the Stellenbosch symposium marks the continuation of an inter-disciplinary and inter-continental project addressing the intersections and cross-articulations of landscape, music, and the spaces of sound. Whilst this symposium aims to bring together a wide-ranging set of subjects and disciplinary approaches, contributions concerned with the unique dynamics of music and sound in (South) African landscapes are especially welcome.
The following themes are envisaged as central concerns:
*Spaces and sounds of power, politics, and contestation
*Philosophical approaches to the spaces of sound
*Spaces and sounds of transformation/devastation
*Landscape as utopia, dystopia or heterotopia
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Richard Taruskin (Department of Music, UC Berkeley)
Prof. Cherryl Walker (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University)
All proposals should be emailed to criticallandscapes at gmail.com (size limit = 5MB) by 18 January 2013.
Individual papers (20 minutes) - abstract of no more than 300 words.
Panel sessions - describe papers and overarching theme in no more than 500 words.
Further information can be found at: http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/
Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound
University of Stellenbosch (South Africa), 9-11 September 2013
Landscapes are divided and dissonant sites of private and collective being. They bear traces of present, past and future ambitions, injustices, and interventions. And yet, their grammars and sounds, whether intimate, commodified or instrumentalised, push at the limits of theory and representation and simultaneously construct systems of aesthetic, ideological, historical and political appropriation.
The second meeting of the ‘Hearing Landscape Critically’ network is concerned with finding ways to articulate and listen to landscape that challenge established patterns of cognition and intervention, and which probe the archival and everyday silences and ruptures exacerbated by social, political and intellectual intervention. Following the first meeting at Oxford University, May 2012, the Stellenbosch symposium marks the continuation of an inter-disciplinary and inter-continental project addressing the intersections and cross-articulations of landscape, music, and the spaces of sound. Whilst this symposium aims to bring together a wide-ranging set of subjects and disciplinary approaches, contributions concerned with the unique dynamics of music and sound in (South) African landscapes are especially welcome.
The following themes are envisaged as central concerns:
*Spaces and sounds of power, politics, and contestation
*Philosophical approaches to the spaces of sound
*Spaces and sounds of transformation/devastation
*Landscape as utopia, dystopia or heterotopia
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Richard Taruskin (Department of Music, UC Berkeley)
Prof. Cherryl Walker (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University)
All proposals should be emailed to criticallandscapes at gmail.com (size limit = 5MB) by 18 January 2013.
Individual papers (20 minutes) - abstract of no more than 300 words.
Panel sessions - describe papers and overarching theme in no more than 500 words.
Further information can be found at: http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/
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