CFP: Music and Spectacle, Univ. of Texas, Austin, 23 Mar 2013

CFP: GAMMA-UT, the Graduate Association for Music and Musicians at the University of Texas at Austin, announces its thirteenth annual conference, “Music and Spectacle,” to be held on Saturday, March 23, 2012 at The University of Texas at Austin. Graduate students from areas including music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, education and learning, composition, performance, and related areas will meet to share their research.

This year’s keynote speaker is Todd Decker. Decker has written extensively on American popular music with emphases on Broadway, Hollywood film and television, the recorded music industry, and jazz. Decker’s current project deals with film music and sound in post-1978 Hollywood war films and considers issues of national identity, masculinity, the creation of new expressive registers in film music, archival research in post-studio films, and how movies can act as war memorials.

Call for Papers:

GAMMA-UT is soliciting student papers in the areas of music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, and education and learning. Papers may deal with any aspect of music research and analysis. Prospective presenters should submit an abstract of 250 words or less for blind review to gammaut2013 at gmail.com by January 15, 2013.

“Music and Spectacle”

For the thirteenth annual conference, we are accepting paper submissions which consider the topic of Music and Spectacle. Conceiving of spectacle broadly to include the visual, aural, and technological, we welcome papers that consider elements of spectacle including: extravagant displays, performances of racial/sexual/gender identity, music and religious spectacle, music and violence, music and dance, music and film, technology and disembodiment.

Please include your name, email address, mailing address, institutional affiliation, student status, and any special needs for A/V equipment. Papers are to be approximately 20 minutes in length followed by a 10-minute discussion session. Applicants will be notified of the program committee’s decision via email by January 21, 2013.

Questions can be directed to the conference email: gammaut2013 at gmail.com

For more information please visit: http://gammaut.music.utexas.edu/