CFP REMINDER: Women in Music since 1913 Symposium, Liverpool Hope
University, 21 March 2015
Please see CFP below. Deadline for receipt of proposals: *Friday 9 January
2015*.
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Women in Music since 1913 Symposium
Liverpool Hope University, 21 March 2015
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Due to Lili Boulanger’s historic triumph in the *Prix de Rome* competition,
1913 is often regarded as a watershed year in the history of Women in Music.
A 19-year-old woman winning France’s most prestigious composition award
symbolises women’s move from the private musical realm to the professional
arena. Of course Boulanger’s achievement is part of a much wider set of
trends, as the last century has seen the development of greater
opportunities for women musicians than ever before. Conversely, the
argument has been made that modernist compositional strategies were levied
as a musical backlash against first-wave feminist progress in the early
decades of the twentieth century, and many female music students still
express some anxiety about aspirations to a compositional career in ways
that suggest there is much progress left to be made. In the wake of the
First-World-War centenary commemorations (another historical landmark
highlighting complex developments in the struggle for and against gender
equality), 2015 is a timely moment to critically consider the changing
landscape of Women in Music since 1913.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on any musical genre or practice
which may address, but need not be limited to, the following themes:
- Composing in Lili Boulanger’s wake
- Women’s music education in the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries
- The impact of feminist politics/the Women’s Liberation Movement
on women in Music
- Women in composition
- Women in performance
- Women and music technology
- The representation of women in music since 1913
- Women in popular music
- Comparative views of women and men in music
- Comparative issues for trans and cis women in music/as musicians
Proposals for 20-minute papers or suggestions for panels of four speakers
(2h) should be sent as abstracts of not more than 300 words to
[log in to unmask] by Friday 9 January 2015. All applicants will be
informed of the outcome by early February 2015.
Enquiries should be directed to [log in to unmask]
*Programme Committee:* Annika Forkert, University of Nottingham; Laura
Hamer, Liverpool Hope University (Chair); Freya Jarman, University of
Liverpool; Rhiannon Mathias, Bangor University.
Dr Laura Hamer
MA (Oxon), MA, PhD (Cardiff), LRSM, FHEA, FRSA
Head of Music
Associate Professor of Music
BA Music Course Leader
Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus,
17 Shaw Street,
Liverpool,
L6 1HP.
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