Northeast Chapter of the Society for
Ethnomusicology

New England Conservatory Summer Intercultural Institute
Robert Labaree, Ph.D, Director
 
Intensive Residencies and Workshops   
Boston, Massachusetts / June-July, 2009

Improvisation for Classical Musicians
with Tanya Kalmanovitch
Saturday June 20 – Friday June 26

Unlocking the Art of Flamenco
with Jonathan “Juanito” Pascual
Sunday, June 21 – Saturday, June 27

Throat Singing of Tuva
with Alash
Sunday, July 19 – Tuesday, July 21

World Rhythm Boot Camp
with Jerry Leake and Lisa Leake
Saturday, July 18 – Friday, July 24

South African Choral Music
with Matlakala Bopape, Larry Gordon,
The Village Harmony Choir
Saturday, July 25

A Shakuhachi Primer
 with Elizabeth Reian Bennett
Sunday, July 26 – Saturday, August 1

Now in its 16th year, the New England Conservatory Summer Intercultural Institute offers:
* intimate classes with master musicians and scholars    
   emphasizing direct oral learning
* integration of performance with cultural study
* an intensive immersion experience

* an open and welcoming environment of cross- cultural inquiry

Participants typically represent a wide array of interests and backgrounds:
* college music teachers
* committed amateurs
* professional performers
* jazz musicians
* K-12 teachers
* composers
* non-musical academic specialists and students

Each of the workshops is demanding, but no previous experience with any of the featured repertoires is expected or required.
         

for information on tuition and registration, contact:
Margaret Ulmer, Director Summer School, New England Conservatory
 617-585-1126  mulmer@newenglandconservatory.edu
Full institute information online at: www.newenglandconservatory.edu/summer
 
Download an NEC Summer School registration form at www.newenglandconservatory.edu/summer/forms_registration.html

NORTHEAST CHAPTER OF THE SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY 2009 MEETING CALL FOR PROPOSALS
 
The Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology invites students, teachers, and devotees of ethnomusicology to submit abstracts for its annual meeting to be held on Saturday, April 4, 2009, at Yale University in New Haven, CT, hosted by Michael Veal and Sarah Weiss.  
 
Proposals for individual papers, panel discussions and lecture/performance demonstrations are welcome.  We also invite proposals for short presentations by musical ensembles (please note that time and space availability may limit the number of ensembles we can accept).  Students and scholars in all branches of music scholarship and related disciplines are encouraged to participate.  Papers will be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes.
 
An abstract (250 words maximum), together with anticipated audio/visual and other technological requirements, should be emailed by Monday February 16, 2009 to:  
Lisa Lawson Burke, NECSEM Secretary, at mburke@framingham.edu.
 
Participants with accepted proposals will be notified by March 2, 2009.
 
Chapter prizes:
NECSEM now awards two memorial prizes for outstanding papers presented by students at the chapter meeting: The Lise Waxer Prize (undergraduate) and the James T. Koetting Prize (graduate) for outstanding papers presented at the meeting. The Waxer Prize is in its second year, and the Koetting Prize was established in 1985.
 
Students whose proposals have been accepted are eligible to apply for the relevant prize.  Completed papers must be formally submitted via email to Eric Galm, NECSEM President, at eric.galm@trincoll.edu by Monday, March 31, 2009 (please indicate which prize for which you are applying).
 
Any questions regarding the meeting can be directed to eric.galm@trincoll.edu.
 
We look forward to seeing you on April 4th at Yale!
 
NECSEM Officers

Call for Papers
Harvard Graduate Music Conference:

"Un-Music"
Keynote Address: Dr. Jonathan Sterne (McGill University)

The Harvard Graduate Music Forum announces its sixth graduate student conference, "Un-Music," taking place on March 7, 2009. We invite graduate students from all disciplines to interpret this theme broadly and creatively. Historical, ethnographical, analytical, and compositional approaches are welcome. Possible topics may include:

- The boundaries between music and non music
- Amusicality
- Musical censorship (what it means to 'un-music' a place)
- Non-musical aspects or intentions of musical performance (dance, ritual, healing, etc)
- The (un)analyzability of music
- Noise, sound, voice, or silence
- Ontologies of music
- Criticism/Bad music

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by Monday, January 12,
2009 to gmfconference@gmail.com. Since proposals will be reviewed anonymously, we ask that your abstract not contain your name or academic affiliation.  Please attach your abstract as a word document to your email.  Include your name and contact information within the body of your email. Speakers will be notified by February 1, 2009.

We are very happy to announce that this year's keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Jonathan Sterne, Professor of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Professor Sterne is a pioneering scholar in the emerging discipline of Sound Studies. His landmark 2003 study The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction rewrites the history of sound technologies such as the telephone, phonograph and radio, and argues for the centrality of sound to our understandings of modernity. He is currently working on his next book project, tentatively titled MP3: The Meaning of a Format.  The title of Dr. Sterne's presentation will be "Is Music A Thing?"

We look forward to reading your submissions!

Ryan Raul Bañagale and Michael Heller
Program Committee co-chairs

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