[Historyoftheory] CfP: AMS History of Theory Study Group at AMS 2021

[Caleb Mutch]

Dear Historians of Music Theory,

 

In case it doesn't catch your eye on other e-mail lists (and with apologies
for cross-posting), here is our Call for Papers for AMS 2021:

 

AMS History of Music Theory Study Group Special Session at the AMS 2021
Meeting

Deadline: May 15th
November 4-7, 2021, Chicago

 

Spanning centuries-old histories in Western and non-Western traditions
alike, mode continues to be an important locus for the interrogation of
musical thought. This special session will contribute to the ongoing
conversation on the conceptual and epistemological frameworks of mode in
music theory by placing it in a broader historical context and by
approaching it from a global perspective.

 

We invite proposals for short papers (ca. 15 mins) that engage with the idea
of mode from a wide range of perspectives, including but not limited to:

1.	To what extent are the many definitions and conceptualizations of
"mode" across musical cultures comparable with one another? Is a global
understanding of mode possible that avoids the pitfalls of both
fragmentation and reductionism?
2.	How do emic and etic perspectives apply to mode, viewed globally,
forty years after Harold Powers's "Tonal Types and Modal Categories"?
3.	To what degree are the "emic" aspects of mode, which made the
concept unreliable as a music-analytic category to Powers, the same ones
that might ground post-colonial (i.e., pluralistic and culturally inflected)
approaches to music history and musical analysis?
4.	As "tonality" appears increasingly compromised as a
music-theoretical category, might mode be revisited as a viable historical
and ideological framework for the study of Western music? If not mode, then
what?
5.	Mode in non-classical repertories (e.g., jazz, pop music):
conceptual lingua franca or cultural imposition?
6.	Mode as a marker of the exotic, the archaic, the uncorrupted, the
racialized Other.

 

Proposals of no more than 200 words should be sent to historyofmusictheory
-at- gmail.com by May 15th.  

 

Best regards, 

Caleb Mutch, Stefano Mengozzi, Emily Zazulia 

AMS History of Music Theory Study Group Co-chairs

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