CFP: Mediterranean Music Conference, Univ. of Nicosia, Sep 2013

Third Biennial Mediterranean Music Conference
Univ. of Nicosia, 19-21 Sep 2013
CFP Deadline: 1 May 2013

The Cyprus Music Institute and the University of Nicosia invite proposals for the Third Biennial Mediterranean Music Conference.

Description: The Mediterranean has long fascinated scholars as a location of cultural activity, even though geographical boundaries and unifying cultural characteristics have doggedly eluded clear definitions. The fundamental ambiguities facing any construction of the Mediterranean as a cultural space have given rise to one of the central themes of Mediterranean music studies: whether and to what extent one may differentiate Music of the Mediterranean from Music in the Mediterranean. Music of the Mediterranean would seem to encompass several indigenous traditions whose cross-fertilization over time might be expected to have led to the emergence of distinctly Mediterranean qualities. Conversely, any consideration of music in the Mediterranean must surely recognize the region’s ongoing historical role as a nexus of musical cosmopolitanism, which does not necessarily or explicitly reflect contact with local traditions. The purpose of the Biennial Mediterranean Music Conference i
 s not
 to address these problems directly, but rather to create an academic space that fully reflects this ambiguity of Mediterranean musical life. To that end, the conference provides a venue for intellectual exchange between scholars interested in music of the Mediterranean and music scholars of any category who are working in the Mediterranean.

Dates: 19-21 September 2013

Keynote Speakers:

Marcello Sorce Keller, Chair of the ICTM Study Group, “Mediterranean Music Studies”

Reinhard Strohm, University of Oxford

Guidelines for proposals: Proposals of up to 500 words should be sent as Microsoft Word attachments to Kenneth O. Smith, chair of the organizing committee, at smith.k at unic.ac.cy.

Deadline for Proposals: 1 May 2013. Applicants will receive a response no later than 15 May.

Conference Fee: €60, with reduced fee of €30 for students and auditors.

For more information, go to:

http://unic.ac.cy/nqcontent.cfm?a_name=newsholder&ar_id=2158&newsType=external