Sound and Subject Through Ages : Musical Meanings in Narratives, Topics and Technologies

4-7 avril 2016, Canterbury et Londres

xiii^th International Congress on Musical Signification, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury & London, United Kingdom

Deadline for submission of proposals: 4th December 2015.

Conference website: https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/musical-signification

ICMS 13 will be hosted by the School of Music & Performing Arts (MPA) at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) under the auspices of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS), and in association with the University of Helsinki, the International Semiotic Institute (ISI) and the Institute of Musical Research (IMR).

Conference Directors: Nicholas McKay (CCCU) and Eero Tarasti (University of Helsinki).

Confirmed Keynote Speakers to date:

Marta Grabocz
Robert Hatten
Philip Tagg
Eero Tarasti
Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski

20-minute papers and presentations are invited on the main conference theme and following subthemes, along with those addressing broader notions of musical signification and semiotics:

The central topic of the "International Project on Musical Signification": musical sense-making

Evolving musical meaning(s) through historical, analytical, semiotic and hermeneutic approaches

Musical meaning and/through technologies

Narratology, subjectivity and/or referential meaning in music

Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to music bringing together traditional musicology and music semiotics

Semiotic approaches to music as sound in its acoustic and architectural/spatial environments

The emergence, growth and/or sense of musical topics

Abstracts of no more than 500 words (saved as MS Word or pdf file) should be emailed to mpa -at- canterbury.ac.uk under the heading "ICMS 13 paper proposal".

Please include name, surname, institutional affiliation, email address, title of proposal and abstract; along with a short biographical note of no more than 150 words.

English is the main conference language, but Italian, German, Spanish, and French are also accepted.

Conference Fees:

£200 Scholars
£125 PhD Students
£50 Students

Email enquiries under the subject heading "ICMS 13" to Nicholas McKay: mpa -at- canterbury.ac.uk