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Music and Sound Studies Network of the German Studies Association

Call for Papers

18-21 septembre 2014, Kansas City

Deadline for abstract submission: 20 January 2014

https://www.thegsa.org/index.html

Location: Kansas City, Missouri

We propose a three-part series of panels on the general theme of Sound and Technology in German Contexts, to be followed by a summary roundtable discussion of invited experts including Mark J. Butler (Northwestern University, Music Theory and Cognition), Carolyn Birdsall (Media Studies, University of Amsterdam), and Daniel Morat (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin). We seek proposals from innovative scholars across the gamut of disciplines, methodologies, and historical periods who are interested in cultivating transdisciplinary conversation and collaboration. Applicants are encouraged to construe the theme of sound and technology broadly. For example, we would welcome proposals from those working on fifteenth-century organ building, turntablism, mediation of natural soundscapes, multimedia installations, sound as part of policing or surveillance, acoustics, live or recorded music in public spaces, the sound of one particular place, and so forth. Applicants should incorporate actual SOUND into their presentations whenever possible, as the sessions will be held in rooms with good audio and visual equipment.

Abstracts of 200 words are due to both network coordinators by 20 January 2014

Joy H. Calico joy.calico at vanderbilt.edu and David Imhoof imhoof at susqu.edu

The Jazz Century in Germany and Austria

Call for Papers

18-21 septembre 2014, Kansas City

German Studies Association panel: The Jazz Century in Germany and Austria

Deadline for abstract submission: 10 February 2014

Conference dates: 18-21 September 2014

https://www.thegsa.org/index.html

Location: Kansas City, Missouri

From the first published references to jazz following World War I to the development of free jazz in the 60s, jazz was a mainstay of German and Austrian cultural discourse during the 20th century. At the same time, its position was never a stable one and was repeatedly subject to vast changes in the social and political landscapes of both Europe and America. This panel is interested in exploring, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the roles jazz music has played for German and Austrian culture, including, but not limited to questions of popular versus high culture, transatlantic diplomatic relations, racial and cultural identity, transnationalism, and diaspora studies. As a panel sponsored by the Music and Sound Studies Network, we therefore invite proposals by interested scholars for papers considering the impact, dissemination, as well as the aesthetic, cultural, historical, and theoretical significance of jazz to 20th-century Germany and Austria. For this interdisciplinary
panel, we welcome contributions from both established scholars and graduate students working in musicology, history, literature, film, art history, as well as other fields. Please send abstracts (in English or German) of no more 400 words to Jonathan Wipplinger (jowippli [at] ncsu.edu) by February 10. Please be aware that should your proposal be accepted, you must be a member of the GSA at the time of the panel's submission (February 17).

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