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CALL FOR PAPERS
MUSIC FOR ALL: Ownership in Composition, Improvisation, and Performance
Orpheus Doctoral Conference 2015
In light of the relative failure of Digital Rights Management technology
(DRM), attempts to define musical ownership in the contemporary world of
digital media have become highly contentious. The ways in which we define
who owns music and what it means to own music (how it can be used, re-used,
and re-imagined) all have implications for our everyday musical life. It
seems, though, that whenever we attempt to form such definitions, we also
find them undermined by musical practice. Even long before the era of
mechanical reproduction, the distinction between the original and the copy
had been a tenuous one. In Western music, the practices of transcription,
adaptation, and citation have been essential to the creation of music.
Remix culture is not, it seems, an entirely new phenomenon.
The issue becomes even more striking in interactions with primarily oral
musical cultures. Without scores or recordings, without any sort of object
to contain it, who owns this music? The traditional improvising musician
participates in a web of musical practices, one in which she belongs. When
we stop worrying about origins--about the music's historical source and its
rightful owner--we face the interesting specter of music that might belong
to no one, or perhaps to everyone. When these same oral traditions interact
with literate musical practice, we are faced with even more radical
challenges to our notions of ownership. Even the essential primacy of a
score over its performance in Western music becomes problematic in light of
the practice of improvising musicians.
These issues have a long and varied history, one that shapes our creative
lives as performers, composers, improvisers, and listeners in subtle, often
tacit ways. In this conference, we meet as practitioners and researchers in
music to explore ownership's connections to musical practice. Participants
from primarily oral musical cultures, primarily literate musical cultures,
and all the shades in-between, will engage in dialogue and discussion, both
on how various conceptions of ownership affect our practice, as well as how
our own practice, in turn, might affect understandings of ownership.
The conference will frame the debate in a wider perspective through the
keynote lectures by Prof. Martin Scherzinger, Associate Professor of Media,
Culture, and Communication at New York University, and Ross Daly,
professional musician.
Practitioners from all disciplines are invited to submit proposals for
presentations.
http://www.orpheusinstituut.be/en/events/music-for-all-ownership-in-composition-improvisation-and-performance
Deadline for Proposals: November 30, 2014.
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Dr J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Reader in Musicology and Theory (= Associate Professor)
Director of Research
Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London
Website: http://www.jpehs.co.uk/
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