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"Music and War"

10th Annual Conference--The University of Texas at Austin-- Saturday, March 27, 2010

 


GAMMA-UT, the Graduate Association of Music and Musicians at UT, announces its tenth annual conference, “Music and War,” to be held on Saturday, March 27th, 2010 at The University of Texas at Austin. Graduate students from the areas of music theory, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance will meet to share their research and composers will present their works in a concert to be held that evening. 


This year’s keynote speaker is Suzanne Cusick. Dr. Cusick is an associate professor of music at New York University. Her publications include the 2009 book Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court (University of Chicago Press) as well as articles on music of seventeenth-century Italy, feminist approaches to music history and criticism, queer studies in music, and music as torture.
 

Call for Papers 


GAMMA-UT is soliciting student papers in the areas of music theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology. Papers may deal with any aspect of music research and analysis, particularly those topics that relate to the theme of “Music and War.” Prospective presenters should submit an abstract of 250 words or less to gamma-ut@austin.utexas.edu by Monday, February 1st, 2010. Please include your name, email address, mailing address, institutional affiliation and student status. Papers are to be approximately twenty minutes in length and will be followed by a ten-minute question session. Applicants will be notified of the program committee’s decision via e-mail by Sunday, February 14th, 2010. 


Questions can be directed to the conference chair Jane Mathieu via email: gamma-ut@austin.utexas.edu 

 

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This website was last updated  11/11/2009 by Jane Mathieu.