[NYCInfoLaw] Columbia Music Scholarship Conference Calls for Abstracts

[Joshua L. Simmons]

The Columbia Music Scholarship Conference, which will be held at
Columbia in March, is looking for abstracts.

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CFP: Sound in Circulation: Technologies, histories, methods, and practices

       The Columbia Music Scholarship Conference invites graduate
students to submit abstracts to be selected for presentation at our
sixth annual meeting, which will take place on March 7, 2009 at
Columbia University. We are soliciting proposals from scholars active
in all music disciplines, as well as those in related fields (for
example media studies, communications, cultural studies, history,
anthropology, area studies, legal studies) to submit abstracts.

       Music has been the leading form of creative work circulated
through internet networks and as such has enjoyed broad scholarly and
public debate in the last few years.  The questions of sound in
circulation ? how authors prepare sound to travel in time and space,
how those sounds move through time and space, and how listeners
interact with those sounds  ? are much broader than that of
file-sharing or digital media. For this conference we would like to
broaden the question about sound in circulation to include many
technologies, methods, and practices of circulating sound among
specific historical, geographic, and/or cultural groups.

       How do people of each time and context decide what is the mode
of representation for sound in transport? What factors influence this
thinking? How do economics, politics, traditions, laws, beliefs, and
technologies shape and get shaped by people?s desire to circulate
sound? How do musicians, composers, improvisers, and sound engineers
act as nodes in musical circulation?

       We welcome a broad response to questions such as these and
suggest topics such as the following: orality and literacy; music in
the oral tradition; transmission, learning, and memory; bodily
techniques of transmission and circulation; music flows in diasporic
communities; transnational music flows; the history of musical
transcription, notation, and arranging; music publishing, printing,
and sales; public or private concert histories; the social history of
phonography; norms, rules, and laws of music circulation; public
access to circulated sound technologies; changing sound circulation
networks; grey or black market circulation; sounds in archives;
musicians and works on tour, and so on.

       Abstracts of 250 words plus title should be submitted by
December 7, 2008 to CMSC 09?s email address:
soundincirculation at gmail.com . Please include your name and contact
information in your email only, and attach the abstract as a Word,
text, or .pdf file. The committee will select papers anonymously. All
scholars who submit abstracts will be notified of the committee?s
decision by December 19, 2008.

If you have questions, please visit our website at
 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cmsc/  or email to soundincirculation at gmail.com.