From: mario Gauthier (mario.gauthier295@videotron.ca)
Date: Sun Sep 26 2010 - 16:05:21 EDT
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Ghost in the Machine: Technologies, Performance, Publics
2-3 February 2011
a conference hosted by:
Schulich School of Music,
Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas &
Improvisation, Community and Social Policy (SSHRC-MCRI)
McGill University, Montreal, QC
Our mandate is to invite recent research and analysis into the
diverse ways in which technological change has and continues to
effect the meaning and experience of music in the long twentieth
century -- not so much in a practical or legal sense but in an
aesthetic, philosophical and political sense. We are keen to involve
as rich a diversity of disciplinary and interdisciplinary frameworks
as possible. The potential to connect questions of music (re)
production and performance to contemporary approaches in critical
theory and to broader questions of social change, social history,
hermeneutics and cultural representation, is particularly encouraged.
We anticipate a range of conversations and presentations exploring
issues ranging from the effect of music recording and archiving of
folk, jazz, and other music traditions, to contemporary issues in
music digitization and performance technologies, including some of
all of the following themes:
• Commodification and question of technology
• Technology, memory and the archive
• Technologies of sound and space
• Composers, recordings, performers and interpretations
• Text and context in recording technologies
• Ethnomusicology, preservation and authenticity
• Technology and contemporary philosophy
• Globalization and technology
• Digitization, impacts and potentials
• Music and politics
• Technology and event
Proposals for complete panels as well as for individual papers are
welcome. Researchers are invited to submit panel and/or paper
abstracts of no more than 250 words, and brief (2 page) cvs to
Ghost.Machine@McGill.ca. (Conference website: http://www.mcgill.ca/
iplai/). Registration fee: $50 (faculty); $25 (student).
Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2010
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