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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Music Theory & Musicology Society at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) is pleased to announce its fourth biennial student conference:

Music and Meaning: Views from the Twenty-first Century

April 20-21, 2012
College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221

Students are invited to submit proposals for papers on broad range of topics with in the fields of music theory and musicology.

Our conference welcomes interdisciplinary research that pertains to but is not limited to:

Aesthetics
Ethnomusicology
Historiography
Jazz and popular music
Music analysis
Performance studies
Periodization
Semiotics
Style and genre studies
Sonata theory
Works outside the canon

Each paper presentation will be given a 30-minute time slot: 20 minutes for the paper and 10 minutes for questions.
Proposals should be submitted via e-mail only, as a PDF or Microsoft Word document, to ccm.mtms@gmail.com. Proposals must be received on or before December 15, 2011.

Submissions must include the following:

* A proposal of no more than 500 words, formatted according to Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.) or A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Turabian/Booth (7th ed.). Please include the title of the paper but omit any personal identifiers, such as the author’s name and institutional affiliation. Musical examples may be appended to the proposals, as well as a list of resources.
* An abstract of 250-300 words, suitable for inclusion in a conference program.
* A cover letter that includes the title of the proposal; the author’s name, institutional affiliation, address, phone number, and e-mail address; and a list of any equipment needed for the presentation (e.g., stereo, overhead projector, etc.).

The conference will commence on April 20 with CCM’s Thinking About Music lecture series, which will feature a keynote address by Beverley Diamond of Memorial University. In between student paper sessions, two additional keynotes will be given in the form of a solo address by a distinguished musicologist and an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion on Saturday April 21.

Details regarding travel, accommodations, and the keynote speakers will be forthcoming. Updated information will be posted on our website: http://ccm.uc.edu/music/cmt/events/mtms.html.

Please e-mail all inquiries to Steven Mathews at ccm.mtms@gmail.com.