CFP: Women and the American Musical Landscape, Univ. of Redlands, Oct 2013

Call for Papers: Women and the American Musical Landscape
The Third Frederick Loewe Symposium on American Music at the University of Redlands
October 21-25, 2013
Featuring:
Joan Tower (Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts, Bard College), Composer in Residence
Denise Von Glahn (Director of the Center for Music of the Americas, Florida State University), Scholar in Residence

Deadline: June 30, 2013

This year we welcome proposals on the role of women’s voices in the creation and performance of American music. Rather than return to issues of representation, we seek to discuss how women musicians and the concept of gender have shaped American musical culture. What might we consider musical feminism given that women­as creators, performers, and “skillful listeners”­take part in diverse discourses, from environmentalism, to race, ethnicity, and class, to personal and/or national identity? In exploring this and other questions we particularly encourage proposals that consider musical process: collaboration, performance, and listening, as well as composition.

In addition to paper presentations (October 24 and 25), the panelists selected will also be integrated into a seminar-style discussion based on readings from Denise Von Glahn’s _Music and the Skillful Listener: American Women Compose the Natural World_ (IUP, 2013) and conversation with Joan Tower.

Abstracts should be approximately 250 words. Please send your abstract, contact information, and required technology to Katherine_Baber at redlands.edu by June 30, 2013.

Program Committee:
Katherine Baber (University of Redlands)
Anthony Suter (University of Redlands)
Denise Von Glahn (Florida State University)

Notifications will be sent no later than July 15, 2013

Information on the 2013 and prior symposia can be found at the School of Music website: http://www.redlands.edu/academics/school-of-music/loewe-symposium.aspx