CFP: Music, Sound, Affect: AMS Music and Philosophy Study Group, Pittsburgh, Nov 2013

CFP: Music, Sound, Affect

Recent years have witnessed what has been described as an “affective turn” in the humanities. Inspired especially by the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and by various strains of psychology and psychoanalysis, scholars in a number of humanistic disciplines have elaborated a conception of affect as a field of intensities that are pre-personal, prior to or apart from meaning, extra-subjective, pre-linguistic, inhuman, and so on. This year’s meeting of the AMS Music and Philosophy Study Group seeks to offer a forum for critical reflection upon the significance of this affective turn for music studies. We invite contributions that consider avenues of research that are opened up by a concern with affect, as well as ways in which the affective turn allows us to reconceive old themes and problems. We also encourage submissions that explore the possible pitfalls and shortcomings that affect theory might present for music studies, or the special challenges that music and sound may presen
 t to
this body of thought.

For the full CFP, please follow the following link: http://musicandphilosophy.tumblr.com/musicsoundaffect

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Stephen Decatur Smith, or contact any other member of the MPSG Organizing Board.

MPSG Chair:
Stephen Decatur Smith (Stony Brook University), stephen.d.smith at stonybrook.edu

MPSG Organizing Board:

Seth Brodsky (University of Chicago)
Amy Cimini (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Demers (University of Southern California) Michael Gallope (University of Chicago)
Brian Kane (Yale University)
Tamara Levitz (UCLA)
Jairo Moreno (University of Pennsylvania)
Holly Watkins (Eastman School of Music)