[Historyoftheory] AMS History of Theory Study Group Business Meeting Call for Presenters, Chicago 2024

[Siavash Sabetrohani]

“Accessibility and the History of Theory”

This meeting will focus on relationships between the history of music
theory and urgent questions of accessibility. What have music theories made
(in)accessible, and to whom? What do the field's concepts, objects, and
practices reveal about ability and disability? And in what ways or contexts
might histories of music theory serve as occasions for the historicization
or even critique of current discourses around accessibility? Discussion
will be prompted by short presentations and anchored in pre-circulated
materials.

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CFP

AMS History of Theory Study Group Business Meeting Call for Presenters

While scholarly efforts make musicology and music theory more inclusive
discipline with respect to disability (e.g., Straus 2011, Howe et al 2016,
Holmes 2017, 2023), wide-ranging and pertinent work in disability studies
(e.g., Dolmage 2017), and performances engaging issues of accessibility and
disability (e.g., the June 2024 performance of Bach’s St. John Passion by
the Sing & Sign sign language choir, soloists, deaf performers, the
collegium thomanum and the "Weimar Baroque" orchestra under the baton of
Diogo Mendes), accessibility remains an issue in musical thought and
practice, e.g., in-person only conferences, exclusionary publishing
practices, outdated pedagogies.

With such issues in mind, the AMS History of Music Theory Study Group
invites proposals for 5–10 minute lightning talks that address
relationships between histories of music theory and accessibility.

Possible questions to consider include, but are not limited to the
following:


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   What have music theories made (in)accessible, and to whom?
   -

   What do the field's concepts, objects, and practices reveal about
   ability and disability?
   -

   In what ways or contexts might histories of music theory serve as
   occasions for the historicization or even critique of current discourses
   around accessibility?
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   How might the turn toward “global” histories of theory intersect with
   imperatives for accessibility?


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   How have technologies, broadly construed, made music accessible (or
   inaccessible)?
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   How have bodies and/or their parts (e. g. Guidonian Hand, Eurythmics,
   sign language) made music and musical thought more accessible (or
   inaccessible)?


We envision the panel of 3–5 talks, followed by general discussion.

Please email abstracts of no more than 150 words, together with a brief bio
(ca 100 words)  to historyofmusictheory at gmail.com. The deadline for
submission is *August 20, 2024*. We will inform potential speakers of the
decision by *September 30*.

Per the current rules set by AMS leadership, accepted speakers will be
expected to participate *in person* at the 2024 AMS Annual Meeting in
Chicago, Illinois (November 14–17, 2024).
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