-----Original Message----- From: Dominic McIver Lopes <[email protected]> To: news <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Oct 29, 2012 2:14 pm Subject: [AE] Fwd: Call for Papers: Hearing Landscape Critically - Stellenbosch, 9-11 Sep 2013
Begin forwarded message: From: Carina Venter <[email protected]> Subject: Call for Papers: Hearing Landscape Critically - Stellenbosch, 9-11 Sep 2013 Date: 26 October, 2012 4:49:54 PDT To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Reply-To: Carina Venter <[email protected]> Call for papers: Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound University of Stellenbosch (South Africa), 9-11 September 2013 bWe live in densely storiated landscapes [b&there are] song-lines, if you will, joining place to place.b (Robert Macfarlane) Landscapes are divided and dissonant sites of private and collective being. They bear traces of present, past and future ambitions, injustices, and interventions. And yet, their grammars and sounds, whether intimate, commodified or instrumentalised, push at the limits of theory and representation and simultaneously construct systems of aesthetic, ideological, historical and political appropriation. The second meeting of the bHearing Landscape Criticallyb network (Stellenbosch University 9-11 September 2013) is concerned with finding ways to articulate and listen to landscape that challenge established patterns of cognition and intervention, and which probe the archival and everyday silences and ruptures exacerbated by social, political and intellectual intervention. Following the first meeting at Oxford University, May 2012, the Stellenbosch symposium marks the continuation of an inter-disciplinary and inter-continental project addressing the intersections and cross-articulations of landscape, music, and the spaces of sound. Whilst this symposium aims to bring together a wide-ranging set of subjects and disciplinary approaches, contributions concerned with the unique dynamics of music and sound in (South) African landscapes are especially welcome. The following themes are envisaged as central concerns: *Spaces and sounds of power and politics: interpreting reservation, academy, capital, legitimation; *Spaces and sounds of contestation: how landscapes suture and structure struggles of class, nationality, education, and race; *Philosophical approaches to the spaces of sound: B transcendental metaphors, the nature/culture debate, ontologies and epistemologies, non-representational theories of musical and social space; *Spaces and sounds of transformation/devastation: bjunk spaceb, inter-state freeways, sprawling suburbs, shopping malls, non-places; *Landscape as utopia, dystopia or heterotopia; *Urban landscapes, or landscapes that confound simple urban/rural divides. Keynote speakers: Prof. Richard Taruskin (Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley) Prof. Cherryl Walker (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University) All proposals should be emailed to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (size limit = 5MB) by 18 January 2013. Please include name, affiliation (if applicable), postal address, email address and AV requirements on a separate cover sheet. Individual papers (20 minutes) - abstract of no more than 300 words. Panel sessions - describe individual papers and overarching theme in no more than 500 words. Alternative formats b describe your proposal (i.e. performance, round table, film discussion, or whatever it may be) in no more than 500 words. NB. Unfortunately, funding for travel will NOT be generally available for delegates. However, there may be some funds for student travel bursaries. If you would be interested in this, please indicate so on your cover sheet. Further information will be made available at the website: "http://musiclandscapeconference.wordpress.com<http://musiclandscapeco nference.wordpress.com/> Sent on behalf of the organising committee of the Hearing Landscape Critically network: Daniel Grimley (Oxford), Stephanus Muller (Stellenbosch), Carina Venter (Oxford), Michael Uy (Harvard) and Jonathan Hicks (Oxford)._______________________________________________ news mailing list [email protected] http://lists.aesthetics-online.org/listinfo.cgi/news-aesthetics-online.org
