[eccr] CFP: Over the Waves: Music in/and Broadcasting

>Call for Papers
>
>International Conference
>Over the Waves: Music in/and Broadcasting
>
>4-6 March 2005
>McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
>
>One way to break out of prescriptive categories of music (high/low,
>serious/popular, instrumental/vocal, etc.) is through its method of
>distribution - as live performance, printed text, recorded performance
>(sound recording, video, film) or as participant in one of the
>transmitted media (radio, television, internet). We would like to
>identify this last category of dissemination as broadcast music, which
>technology has made possible since the 1920s. Broadcasting has changed
>how music is experienced in terms of space, embodiment and social
>behaviours - in effect, helping to define modern life. Music that is
>dispersed by broadcast technologies assumes an imminent quality,
>conveyed through a sense of in-the-moment "happeningness" and the
>beneath-comment "everyday," which differentiates it from media like
>film and recorded sound that are "experienced as repetition"
>(Auslander, Liveness, 46). This transitoriness manifests itself in
>different contexts: music that is transmitted over the waves is
>inflected by the circumstances under which it is heard as well as the
>broadcast medium - whether radio, television or the internet - through
>which it is conveyed. It is the perceived ephemerality of music in
>broadcasting that has prejudiced, or at least hindered, scholars from
>dealing with it in any serious or comprehensive way.
>
>Music in broadcasting has many guises: it may appear as a soundtrack
>for news programs, situation comedies, or dramas; it may be featured as
>the "main thing" in opera and concert broadcasts and in live
>transmissions from concert and dance venues; or it may serve to fill
>the hours of its consumers in easy-listening, top forty, or urban
>country formats. It may operate as commodity, public service, special
>event, aural wallpaper, or some combination thereof. Listening may be
>involuntary, or listeners may tune in for pleasure, company or
>enlightenment; alone or in groups; in domestic spaces, cars or the
>workplace.
>
>Historically, broadcasting has been subjected to a high degree of
>control by governmental and corporate entities, but its media also have
>the power to cross boundaries of class and nation. They can carry
>music, a powerful expression of cultural values, to unexpected (and
>expected) audiences, shaping new senses of identity, making possible
>creative appropriations and fusions, and/or imposing particular notions
>of value, which in turn may be resisted. Broadcasting creates a
>ubiquitous yet liminal social space, positioned somewhere between the
>imagined and the tangible. The constructions of this social space and
>its regulation through sound are of profound importance for the ways in
>which we experience the world. The phenomenality of musical space is
>critical to issues of place, time and a concept of habitable and
>uninhabitable space. Politically, this space is the site of the
>contestation between the forces of globalization and of localization.
>
>This conference seeks to initiate a fundamental discussion about music
>in/and broadcasting that will bring together specialists from various
>broadcast media. This will result not only in a conference of papers
>that will stimulate further thought and discussion, but also in a
>publication that would be the first to address music and broadcasting
>across media lines. We are particularly interested in examining the
>political, bureaucratic, corporate and commercial structures that
>inform and regulate the nature of music in broadcasting; the ways in
>which music broadcasting expresses and creates "imagined communities"
>based on class, region, gender, etc.; the manner in which listeners in
>"body and spirit" experience music on the radio, in television and on
>the internet; how the dispersal of musical sound through broadcast
>media shapes notions of space; and the phenomenality of music in
>broadcasting.
>
>The International Conference Over the Waves: Music in/and Broadcasting
>will take place 4-6 March 2005 on the campus of McMaster University,
>Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Keynote addresses will be given by Jenny
>Doctor and Anahid Kassabian.
>
>The organizing committee invites proposals for individual papers and
>sessions on topics as identified above. Proposals for individual
>presentations should be in the form of an abstract of 250-500 words and
>should contain a clear outline of the paper's aims and subject matter,
>a description of its research findings, and an assessment of its
>contribution and significance to scholarship. Proposals for panel
>sessions should include an abstract of 500 words demonstrating the
>rationale for the session, as well as an abstract for each paper
>conforming to the above guidelines. All papers will be limited to 25
>minutes' duration.
>
>Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to Christina Baade
><(baadec /at/ mcmaster.ca)>, James Deaville <(deaville /at/ mcmaster.ca)> or Sandy
>Thorburn <(thorbur /at/ mcmaster.ca)>. Attachments in Word are preferred for
>the text of abstracts; please include a plain-text version in the body
>of the e-mail. All proposals will be acknowledged.
>
>Deadline for proposals: Friday, 22 October 2004 - results should be
>determined by 1 December 2004.
>
>Conference organisers: Christina Baade, James Deaville, Sandy Thorburn
>(McMaster University). Sponsored by McMaster?s Institute on
>Globalization and the Human Condition.
>
>
>Christina Baade
>Assistant Professor, Music and Communication Studies
>McMaster University
>School of the Arts
>Togo Salmon Hall Room 408
>Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2
>phone: 905/525-9140 ex. 23736
>fax: 905/527-6793
>email: (baadec /at/ mcmaster.ca)
>

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