[ecrea] CFP: Duke Ellington conference

In the Beginning, Duke:
The Three-Day Ellington Summit
25–27 May 2018

The 25th International Duke Ellington Study Group Conference, organized 
by the Duke Ellington Society UK, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and 
the Birmingham City University School of Media.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Duke Ellington was canonized 
as one of the key figures in 20th century American music. However, his 
influence reaches beyond jazz into almost every significant form of 
artistic expression. This conference invites speakers to reappraise the 
aesthetic, social and political impact of Ellington, his orchestra, his 
compositions and collaborators. Through consideration of Ellington as a 
global phenomenon, we seek to interrogate the narratives that have 
shaped the written history of jazz and the frameworks through which 
popular music has been viewed. The conference aims to forge a new 
beginning for Ellington studies, which collides traditional academic 
research with performance-based analysis and methodologies drawn from 
across the humanities.
The three-day event will be located within the state-of-the-art Royal 
Birmingham Conservatoire, which boasts a purpose-built Eastside Jazz 
Club, along with a 150-seat recital hall and 500-seat concert hall. 
Alongside themed panels of speakers, the event will showcase two 
concerts by the Conservatoire Ellington Orchestra and host the Duke 
Ellington Society UK Annual General Meeting.

Abstracts for papers should be submitted to (nicolas.pillai /at/ bcu.ac.uk) in 
the following format: 300 words + 100 words bio by 30 February 2018. The 
conference fee [tbc] will include refreshments throughout the event and 
tickets to the two concerts.

Suggestions for paper topics:

•	Ellington and black history
•	New methods of analysing group composition
•	Ellington and creative leadership
•	Studies of specific concerts or recording dates
•	The Ellington Orchestra on radio, film and television
•	The practice of discography and Ellington’s presence within the archive
•	Studies of Ellington fandom and collector culture
•	Ellington on the road
•	The repertoire’s revival and ongoing life in music education
•	Ellington as transnational figure
•	Collaborations with other key artists, musical and non-musical
•	Ellington within the music industry, interaction with managers and labels
•	The historiography of Ellington
•	Ellington and the Western classical tradition
•	The challenges of performing Ellington’s work today
•	Ellington and divinity


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