第三届ICTM“应用民族音乐学”小组论坛会议通告
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 3rd symposium of the ICTM Study Group
Applied Ethnomusicology
Nicosia, Cyprus, 18-22 April 2012
The International Council for Traditional Music’s Study Group on Applied
Ethnomusicology welcomes proposals for its Cyprus symposium. It which will be hosted
in collaboration with the Cyprus Musicological Society and the University of Nicosia with support from the Department of Social and Political Science of the University of Cyprus.
The symposium features three main themes.
Themes
1. Politics and practices of applied ethnomusicology: Social activism,
censorship, state control
State control can take on a variety of forms – on the level of education, with regard to
institutionalization, yet also concerning media control and censorship. How does
applied ethnomusicology implement and rethink social activism within these
contexts? While presentations on the topic of censorship and state control are
specifically encouraged, this theme invites presentations that document and theorize
the solving of concrete social problems through applied ethnomusicology projects in
the academy, and beyond in contexts of education, health, industry and culture.
2. Disability and music
This theme welcomes contributions on all types of disability in relation to music.
Paper proposals can, for example, discuss music and dance in the context of
accessibility and the human rights of disabled people. They can focus on how
ethnomusicology can be applied in the making of disability politics. Proposals can
take up the variety of musical contexts of ability, illness and health from the
perspectives of disability research, special education and music therapy, among
others. Proposals can deal with how dis/ability is constructed in music and dance and
what are the theories and methods that can be used in the analysis of these
constructions.
3. Music and conflict
Continuing earlier work of the Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology, this theme
includes the use of music in diverse social configurations of conflict, including
interpersonal and intergroup, interethnic, interreligious and interclass. How can music
scholars and practitioners address, through music, the “macro” catalysts of conflict?
What can applied ethnomusicology contribute to the understanding and solving of
conflicts over economic resources and ownership systems? How can scholars further
theorize the specific roles of oppression in music and conflict situations, and the
instrumentalization of music as a means of creating conflict?
Location
Nicosia , a cosmopolitan and culturally rich city that is also the last divided capital in
Europe (between a Greek south and Turkish-occupied north part), offers a fascinating
urban setting for considering the symposium’s several themes of music and inter-human
relations.
The symposium will be hosted at the University of Nicosia . Delegates are invited to stay
at the Hilton Park Hotel,
Nicosia, accommodation in which has been organized by the
Local Organizing Committee. Delegates should fly into the international airport of
Larnaca (code: LCA).
The members of the Local Organizing Committee from Cyprus are Panikos Giorgoudes, Chair,
Despo Stylianou, Savvas Katsikides, Nicos Kartakoullis, Anthoula Hadjiantoni and Kalypso Apergi.
Proposals
The program committee consists of Klisala Harrison, Chair (Canada), Samuel Araújo
(Brazil), Britta Sweers (Switzerland), Patricia Opondo (South Africa), Panikos
Giorgoudes (Cyprus), Aaron Corn (Australia), Hanna Väätäinen (Finland) and Tan Sooi
Beng (Malaysia).
We invite proposals for presentations in four basic formats, not excluding others. These
are: individual papers, organized sessions, lecture demonstrations, and films.
Please submit an abstract of 250 words maximum to britta.sweers@musik.unibe.ch by 1st
December 2011, in order to enable peer review by the year’s end.