Biennial Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group

Mise à jour 20 mai 2017

13-14 juillet 2017, Londres
https://musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/mpsg2017/

Department of Music and Department of Philosophy, King’s College London

We are delighted to announce that the programme has been released and that registration for the 2017 Biennial Conference of the RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group is now open!

The conference will feature…

Keynote addresses from Martha Feldman (University of Chicago) and Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland)

Themed Sessions on the topics of:

• Rethinking Collaborative Authorship through Music

• Repetition, Repetition, Repetition

• Musical Nonhumans

• Feeling in Music and Sound: Atmosphere, Stimmung, Mood

• Music in Video Games

 

Free Paper Sessions on the topics of:

• Musical Materialisms

• The Sublime and The Ineffable

• New Light on German Romanticism

• Gesture and Play

• Sound and Silence

• Musical Dwelling

 

Roundtable Sessions featuring responses to:

• The work of Jean-Luc Nancy - with Julian Johnson, Naomi Waltham-Smith, and Jean-Luc Nancy (via pre-recorded video address)

• Roger Scruton's new book The Ring of Truth - with Paul Boghossian, John Deathridge, Andreas Dorschel, and Roger Scruton

and Associates Sessions hosted by:

• American Musicological Society Music and Philosophy Study Group (On Rancière)

• Institute for Musical Research Critical Theory for Musicology Study Group (We’re All Philosophers Now)

• Performance Philosophy Research Network (Performance-Cage-Philosophy)

• Royal Musical Association LGBTQ Study Group (Listening to the Dead Voice)

• Royal Musical Association Music and/as Process Study Group (Ephemeral Scores and the Work-Concept)

• Society for Music Theory Music and Philosophy Interest Group (Rethinking the Language of Music Theory)

• Tick Tock Performance (To Conduct is to Move)

For full details of all the above, and to register, please visit:
https://musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/mpsg2017

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Royal Musical Association, the British Society of Aesthetics, the Mind Association, King’s College London, and the Open University.