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Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposal Deadline: September 2, 2014

Keynote Speaker: Susan Key
Executive Director of the Star Spangled Music Foundation

To further research on how music scholars, performers, educators, journalists and industry professionals can engage the public, Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey will host a three-day conference on public musicology from January 30 to February 1, 2015. We welcome individual paper, lecture-recital, panel, workshop and innovative-format proposals on any aspect of public musicology. These include but are not limited to the following areas:

  • Innovative Programming
  • The History of Public Musicology
  • Music and Museums
  • Musical Archives and the Public
  • Music, Collective Memory, and Historical Interpretation
  • The Material Culture of Music
  • Musical Tourism
  • The Relationship Between Academic Musicology and Public Musicology
  • Music and Historical Preservation
  • Public Musicology vs. Public History and Public Science

Proposals for individual papers, workshops, and innovative-format proposals should include an abstract of no more than 300 words, a 100-word biography, and a list of A/V and other equipment needs. Lecture-recital proposals should include a 300-word abstract, a 10-minute recording in MP3 format, a 100-word biography, and a list of A/V and other equipment needs. Panel proposals should include a 200-word introduction, 200-word abstracts, 100-word biographies for each presenter, and a list of A/V and other equipment needs.

Please send proposals to Eric Hung (ehung@rider.edu) no later than September 2, 2014. Presenters will be notified of the program committee’s decision by September 30, 2014. This conference celebrates Westminster Choir College of Rider University’s new Master of Music Degree in American and Public Musicology. Presentations will be considered for a book on public musicology to be edited by the organizers of this conference.

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