2017 Biennial Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group
Department of Music and Department of Philosophy, King’s College London
13-14 July 2017
http://musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/mpsg2017/
We would like to remind you that registration for the conference closes on *Friday 30 June 2017*. The conference is conceived as a hub of interaction where people can meet and discuss work informally as well as formally. As such, you are warmly welcome, regardless of whether you are presenting a paper.
The conference will feature…
Keynote addresses from Martha Feldman (University of Chicago) and Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland)
Themed Sessions on the topics of:
• Rethinking Collaborative Authorship through Music
• Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
• Musical Nonhumans
• Feeling in Music and Sound: Atmosphere, Stimmung, Mood
• Music in Video Games
Free Paper Sessions on the topics of:
• Musical Materialisms
• The Sublime and The Ineffable
• New Light on German Romanticism
• Gesture and Play
• Sound and Silence
• Musical Dwelling
Roundtable Sessions featuring responses to:
• The work of Jean-Luc Nancy - with Julian Johnson, Naomi Waltham-Smith, and Jean-Luc Nancy (via pre-recorded video address)
• Roger Scruton's new book The Ring of Truth - with Paul Boghossian, John Deathridge, Andreas Dorschel, and Roger Scruton
and Associates Sessions hosted by:
• American Musicological Society Music and Philosophy Study Group (On Rancière)
• Institute for Musical Research Critical Theory for Musicology Study Group (We’re All Philosophers Now)
• Performance Philosophy Research Network (Performance-Cage-Philosophy)
• Royal Musical Association LGBTQ Study Group (Listening to the Dead Voice)
• Royal Musical Association Music and/as Process Study Group (Ephemeral Scores and the Work-Concept)
• Society for Music Theory Music and Philosophy Interest Group (Rethinking the Language of Music Theory)
• Tick Tock Performance (To Conduct is to Move)
For full details of all the above, and to register, please visit:
http://musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/mpsg2017
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Royal Musical Association, the British Society of Aesthetics, the Mind Association, King’s College London, and the Open University.
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