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

[Stefano Mengozzi]

*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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