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From: Mariana Whitmer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN MUSIC
2009 CONFERENCE
DENVER, COLORADO
The Society for American Music invites proposals for papers, panels of
2-3 papers, concerts, lecture-performances, and scholarly posters for
its 35th Annual Conference. The conference will be held in Denver,
Colorado, March 18-22, 2009, at the Marriott City Center Hotel.
Concerts and other special events will be offered as part of the
conference, including a Friday afternoon visit to the Denver March
Pow-Wow (http://www.denvermarchpowwow.org <http://www.denvermarchpowwow.org/> ). The online and postmark
submission deadline for all proposals is June 15, 2008. More information
may be found at www.american-music.org.
We welcome proposals involving all facets of musical life throughout the
Americas, and American music and aspects of its cultures anywhere in the
world. We especially welcome proposals addressing:
* Musical life in the West: The western United States, western Canada,
and in Mexico, the equivalent of the U.S. West-Mexico's northern states
* Music and shifting geographic images of the West, related to westward
expansion and changing political borders
* Local and regional identities in the West: Denver and the
Inter-Mountain West, the Southwest, Pacific rim, California
* Composers and performers of art music looking westward towards Pacific
Asia
* Connections between the music of native peoples and Euroamerican
musical cultures in the West
* Native American musical traditions
* Asian American, Latino/Latina, African American studies
Guidelines
Presenters are required to register for the entire conference. The
committee encourages proposals from those who did not present at the
2008 San Antonio meeting, but all proposals will be judged primarily on
merit. With the exception of Lecture-Performances, we prefer that all
proposals be submitted via e-mail.
Proposers for all except Lecture-Recitals must specify whether the
proposal is for 1) paper, 2) poster, or 3) either presentation format,
the latter to be determined by the Program Committee as it builds
sessions. Individual or joint papers should be no longer than twenty
minutes. Lecture-Performances should be no longer than thirty minutes.
For complete session proposals, the organizer should include an
additional statement explaining the rationale for the session, in
addition to proposals and abstracts for each paper.
Research Poster Sessions
The poster format provides an opportunity for SAM members to meet
informally with authors and discuss research. Each author attends
her/his respective 90-minute session, distributes abstracts, and answers
questions. Supporting sound and/or video examples (on personal computers
and utilizing battery, rather than A/C power) will be coordinated with
other presenters once sessions have been formed by the Program
Committee. Further poster guidelines may be found at www.american-music.org.
Include the following for all submissions:
1) 250-word proposal
2) 100-word abstract suitable for publication in the conference program
booklet
3) Panels must include proposals and abstracts for each paper
4) audio and visual needs selected from the following list only: CD and
audiocassette player, overhead projector, VHS/DVD player, LCD projector.
Due to logistics and the high cost of renting this equipment, we cannot
accommodate AV changes once a proposal is accepted.
5) proposer's name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address, and
institutional affiliation or city of residence
For Lecture-Performances please include the above-mentioned materials, plus:
6) seven copies of a recording (CD, cassette tape, DVD, or VHS)
7) an addressed, stamped mailer if you would like the recordings returned
8) a list of special needs (e.g., piano, music stand, space for dance
demonstration, choral risers)
All materials must be electronically date-stamped (online submission) or
postmarked (mail submission) by June 15, 2008. If online submission
fails, submit to John Koegel by the same deadline: [log in to unmask]
Postal submissions should be addressed to: John Koegel, Chair, SAM 2009
Program Committee, Department of Music, California State University,
Fullerton 800 North State College Blvd., Fullerton, California 92831-3599
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