<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Dear

Colleagues, <span></span></span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">may we

remind you of our <b>CfP</b> for our pre-conference in New Orleans, on the topic of “<b>Identity

in Music Theory and History” , which is open until next Tuesday, March 15. <font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">The AMS Study Group and SMT Interest Group for the History of Music Theory invite proposals for a pre-conference (Nov. 9-10, 2022) to the upcoming meeting in New Orleans.<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Identity in Music Theory and History<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Building on recent interrogations of the ways in which race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, (dis)ability, and class have shaped disciplinary agendas; on histories that extend or decenter Europe and the global North; and on historicizations of music theory’s fundamental concepts, this conference will address the role(s) identity does, might, or ought to play in histories of music theory.<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We invite proposals for 20-minute papers that engage with music theory and identity from a wide range of perspectives, including but not limited to:<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <p style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       <span dir="LTR"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">What does it mean to be a music theorist (in the present, past, and/or future)? Who gets—or wants—to be one, and why?<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       <span dir="LTR"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">What kinds of identities does (historically oriented) research in music (theory) address (e.g., individual, communal, institutional, … disciplinary, cultural, contextual,... )? In what ways does musical thought help individuals, communities, institutions, and/or cultures negotiate questions of identity?<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       <span dir="LTR"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">How does (the history of) music theory look from the perspective of disciplines with rich histories of reflection on identity and community, e.g., ethnomusicology, anthropology, philosophy, sociology?<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       <span dir="LTR"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">How does identity shape the ways in which music theories are read or used? How do identities and concepts interact to shape musical values and support or resist existing power structures? How might we understand the patterns of exclusion that these processes involve? <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       <span dir="LTR"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">How have links between language and identity shaped music theory, and how do acts of translation reshape it?<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       <span dir="LTR"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">What is the place of biography in the history of music theory?<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       <span dir="LTR"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">How has identity functioned as a historiographic category in histories of music theory? In what ways has identity been elided from histories of music theory, and to what end(s)?<p role="presentation" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       <span dir="LTR"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">What do histories of music theory become if musical concepts (e.g., harmony, rhythm, proportion, timbre, and form) are understood not as foundations of the discipline but rather as media that shape, resonate, and interact with the identities of those for whom such concepts matter?<p role="presentation" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       <span dir="LTR"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">How might cultural and ethnographic approaches to the study of music theory reshape the nature of music-theoretical claims? <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       <span dir="LTR"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">In what ways might a focus on identity broaden the horizons of music theory? Conversely, what are the limits of identity in, and how might issues of identity limit, music theorizing?<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US">Please submit abstracts (350 words) to <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:historyofmusictheory@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue" lang="EN-US">historyofmusictheory@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US"> by March 15, 2022, with the heading “Identity NOLA”. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2" face="Arial, sans-serif"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Best wishes,  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">your HoT AMS and SMT teams <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Abigail Shupe<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:abigail.shupe@gmail.com" target="_blank">abigail.shupe@gmail.com</a><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">August Sheehy<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><a href="mailto:August.Sheehy@stonybrook.edu" target="_blank">August.Sheehy@stonybrook.edu</a><span style="font-family:"Effra W01","Effra W01",Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Effra W01","Effra W01",Helvetica,sans-serif"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Effra W01","Effra W01",Helvetica,sans-serif">Stephanie Probst<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="mailto:probst-s@mdw.ac.at" target="_blank">probst-s@mdw.ac.at</a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Effra W01","Effra W01",Helvetica,sans-serif"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Stefano Mengozzi<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="mailto:smeng@umich.edu" target="_blank">smeng@umich.edu</a> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Emily Zazulia<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="mailto:zazulia@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">zazulia@berkeley.edu</a> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Scott Gleason<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="mailto:scottmg2010@gmail.com" target="_blank">scottmg2010@gmail.com</a>  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> 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