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From: Ian Biddle <[log in to unmask]>
Just a quick reminder to list members that the deadline for contributions
to the book outlined below is July 29th.
Best wishes
Call for Contributions:
Men Sounding Off:
Modernity, Masculinity and Western Musical Practice
In other disciplines within the arts and humanities, so-called 'men's
studies' is a well-established field. Music studies in the Anglophone
world has only recently begun to address the question of how men have
used, listened to and brandished musical forms, performed music, performed
their gender through music and how they have sort to represent themselves
and their idealised or critical figurations of masculinity through musical
practice. And yet, the history of thinking about music (certainly since
the early modern period), is shot through with explicit engagements of
masculinity as an ideal, a topos, a trope: art music was understood to
work in a number of ways, it would seem, as site, material, idea, figure,
symbol, incubator, catalyst, avatar, metonym, synecdoche, hyperbole,
channel, and vessel for any number of masculinities (both hegemonic and
counter-hegemonic). This collection is thus timely.
We hope that this book will form one of a pair of volumes on music and
masculinity, the other, Oh Boy! Masculinities and Popular Music edited by
Freya Jarman (University of Liverpool) is already being considered by
Routledge.
Contributions are invited to a proposed collection of essays on Western
Music and Masculinity, circa 1600-1945, although contributions outside of
this timeframe will be considered. Whilst the editors welcome
contributions from all fields, we would be particularly pleased to receive
contributions on the following topics:
* Intimacy and public/private male selves
* The male authorial voice
* The male body in medicine
* Music and male emotionality
* Music and male eroticism
* Music and male sexualities
* Historiography of masculinity and music
* Music and male hegemony
* Music and men in literature
* Ideologies of music and masculinity
* Music theory and masculinity
* Music, masculinity and technology
* Music and subversive/alternative masculinities: (e.g.
cross-dressing/gender bending, male 'disorders', male 'deviancy'
etc.)
* Music and men in the nature/culture binarism
* Music and colonial/postcolonial masculinities (race, territory,
diaspora, nationhood etc.)
* Music, masculinity and education
Potential contributors should send initially a 500-word abstract to the
email address given below by Friday 29th July 2005. We hope to produce a
complete manuscript by January 2006 and to publish the volume by early
2007.
Enquiries to the editors Ian Biddle ([log in to unmask]) or Kirsten
Gibson ([log in to unmask])
Abstracts should be sent to: [log in to unmask]
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Dr Ian Biddle
International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS)
School of Arts and Cultures
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
tel: +191 222 8844
fax: +191 222 5242
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/music
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/POP
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