[ecrea] Cfp: Study day on The Construction of Musical Performance Norms

Call for papers



Study day on ‘The Construction of Musical Performance Norms’

King’s College London

Saturday 24 May 2014



Immediately following, and in association with, the seminar on 
'Classical Music as Contemporary Socio-Cultural Practice: Critical 
Perspectives', to be held at King's on May 23rd.



Proposals are invited for talks in this additional one-day seminar 
focusing on the ways in which norms of musical performance are tacitly 
agreed, taught, and maintained and on how they might be challenged. 
Contributions are welcome from scholars in any relevant field and 
equally from performers, educators, music journalists and others who 
engage professionally with musical performance. Contributions need not 
be confined to western classical music. Topics might include the 
teaching of performance norms; ethics of performer obligation; the roles 
of critics, agents, managers and producers in assuring performance 
norms; the examination and adjudication of performance style; performer 
anxiety in relation to perceived obligations and expectations; the 
implications of past recordings and beliefs about tradition; escaping, 
subverting or changing norms; the politics of performance; performance 
norms in relation to race, class and gender; the function of music as 
comfort or critique; music and utopia. Short contributions leading to 
discussion will be preferred: speakers are invited to bid for a length 
for their time-slot bearing in mind the constraints of a one-day 
meeting. A Steinway model D will be available as well as the usual A/V 
facilities.



There is no registration fee. Speakers’ travel and unavoidable 
accommodation expenses will be reimbursed.



Please send a 250-word proposal by 15 March to 
(daniel.leech-wilkinson /at/ kcl.ac.uk) or Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Dept of 
Music, King’s College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK. In association with 
the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice 
(CMPCP).

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