CALL FOR PAPERS:
AUSTRIAN MUSIC STUDIES: TOPICS – PERSPECTIVES – CONCEPTS
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AUSTRIAN SOCIETY FOR MUSICOLOGY
INNSBRUCK, HAUS DER MUSIK 4-7 DECEMBER 2019
Organisation and Concept: Department of Music of the University of
Innsbruck in cooperation with the doctoral seminar "Austrian Studies" of
the University of Innsbruck
Austria is politically, culturally and historically a multiply charged
conception. Semantically residing at the interface between the Habsburg
Monarchy and the Republic, in every historical period, it has been
profoundly conflicting. In the modern times it soon detached itself from
its topographical determination and obtained a more extensive meaning.
With the end of the 18th century, the strain between heterogeneous
territorial dominions, multilingualism, as well as cultural and
confessional differences on the one side, and the centralistic
tendencies of the public administration on the other, kept increasing.
In addition to this, the 19th century brought designs of national
identity that confronted the multinational state and destabilised it. In
the Republic, which, compared to the monarchy, was territorially
severely reduced, the necessity for self-determination manifested itself
in the course of its century-old existence in various intensities and
forms, ranging from a total abandonment of an independent Austrian
(cultural) nation for the benefit of the idea of a German one, all the
way to a conscious distance from Germany. Even today there are still
political camps subscribing to the Nazi-implemented Anschluss. The
production, reception and conservation of music took an active part in
the processes sketched here, and were determined by them; but on the
other hand they helped to create these processes.
In such a demanding multitude of layers and meanings, as well as
contrariness of the notion of Austria, it is no wonder that a
flourishing research field of "Austrian Studies" or rather "Austrian
Music Studies" found a way to establish itself in European and
Anglo-American areas. Such a designation appears also as the subheading
of the journal of the Austrian Society for Musicology (ÖGMw),
"Musicologica austriaca" - meanwhile an online peer-reviewed journal.
This year´s Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Musicology
organised by the Department of Music of the University of Innsbruck
focuses on the musicological dimensions of the national, supranational,
postcolonial and neo-colonial, as well as on the critique of these
dimensions. The subjects of analysis at the conference should be
music-related identity discourses, collective identities performatively
brought up through music, questions of cultural transfer in and outside
of the Austrian territories, interrelations and delimitations. We
welcome proposals from all subdisciplines of musicology that examine
these issues through the connection between theoretical reflections and
case studies.
CONFERENCE LANGUAGES ARE GERMAN AND ENGLISH, unless otherwise discussed
with the organisational committee.
FORMAT: 20-minute papers with 10-minute discussions.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent as attachments (Word, PDF) BY
15TH JUNE 2019, along with the author´s name, institutional affiliation,
e-mail address and technical requirements, to the following address:
[log in to unmask] The authors of accepted abstracts will
be notified by 15th July 2019.
For information see also: HTTP://WWW.MUSAU.ORG/OEGMW/AKTUELL/
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