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Host: University of London
Homepage: http://musicinfo.gold.ac.uk/music/C20%20Conference
Email: k.potter@gold.ac.uk
Organizers: Keith Potter
Description:
This conference will address the widest possible spectrum of musicological
endeavours which pertain to the music of the last century, and to the one
indisputably under way by the time the conference itself takes place.
Papers, and proposals for sessions containing no more than four separate papers, are invited on any twentieth-century musical subject; a wide range of approaches and methodologies, as well as repertoires, is encouraged. Subjects drawn from the wide field commonly called "popular musics" will be as welcome as well as those from the "cultivated" traditions. Methodologies drawing on the disciplines of sociology, anthropology and cultural theory will be embraced alongside those based on earlier models of musicological practice. Goldsmiths' eminence in the fields of fine art and various dimensions of cultural studies will also be exploited to augment the efforts of scholars working in more traditional musical contexts. Papers from practitioners (composers, performers, improvisers...) as well as scholars are warmly welcomed. Papers from postgraduate students will also be given serious consideration.
Areas currently under review as the subject of particular sessions include: The Writing of Twentieth-Century Musical History, Composition in Contemporary Russia, The Musical Significance of John Cage, The Heritage of Musical Minimalism, The Impact of the Internet on Musical Practice and Listening Strategies. Suggestions for other topics are warmly welcomed. (Electronic versions of this list will be updated and modified as new proposals are submitted.)
Submitted by: Keith Potter
Date received: November 14, 2000, revised March 23, 2001
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