Deadline: February 24, 2023
We are excited to announce the ASEEES Music Study Group’s sponsored session for ASEEES 2023 in Philadelphia. In keeping with the theme of this year’s conference, “Decolonization,” we are inviting a range of proposals that address the many ways in which music captures, responds to, or amplifies “(De)colonial Voices”—please see the detailed CfP below. While we hope to attract proposals that reflect on the ASEEES 2023 theme, we will also consider music-related proposals even if they don’t speak directly to it. We are currently planning this session to be part of the in-person convention on Nov 30-Dec 3, 2023.
Please submit a brief proposal for this session and a 2-3 sentence bio blurb, as well as your preference for a roundtable or panel format to David Salkowski (Secretary, dsalkows@utk.edu) by Friday, February 24.After collecting proposals, we (the MSG officers) will submit the proposal to ASEEES on the group’s behalf. We welcome proposals from all disciplines, and we particularly encourage submissions from group members who have not yet presented as part of the sponsored session.
We look forward to receiving your proposals, and please, let us know if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
The MusCom
Polina Dimova (President, pdimova@du.edu)
Tony Lin (Vice President, tony.h.lin@bc.edu)
David Salkowski (Secretary, dsalkows@utk.edu)
CfP: (De)colonial Voices
Since the theme of this year’s conference is “Decolonization,” we invite proposals that fall under the broad topic of “(De)colonial Voices.” Voice may be a marker of colonial or postcolonial conditions in a linguistic sense, while its materiality beyond language may prove a site of resistance or contestation of such conditions. On the other hand, as the intellectual legacies of postcolonial and Third Worldist figures continue to gain purchase in understanding our world, what can the historical voices of Russian, East European, and Eurasian music contribute to decolonial discourses? We therefore encourage proposals from any discipline that seek to understand how voices were colonized and/or decolonized in these regions, what voices emerge from these processes, and how this impacts our work as scholars and teachers of history, culture, and language. While we hope to attract proposals that reflect on the ASEEES theme, we will also consider music-related proposals even if they don’t speak directly to it.