<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-05e6eb48-7fff-7afa-904f-08b0897027bd" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="EB Garamond, serif"><span style="font-size:14.666667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues, </span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="EB Garamond, serif"><span style="font-size:14.666667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Please see our CFP below. </span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="EB Garamond, serif"><span style="font-size:14.666667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="EB Garamond, serif"><span style="font-size:14.666667px;white-space:pre-wrap">--Abby Shupe</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Lightning Talks: “Oral Cultures in the History of Music Theory”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">M</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(68,71,70);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">usic theory tends to engage with written cultures, to the exclusion of oral traditions (and c</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ontexts where non-written modes of knowledge dissemination prevail). In a joint interest group meeting, the IGs for the Analysis of World Musics and the History of Music Theory will inquire into the overrepresentation of insights from written traditions in music-theoretical scholarship. We invite proposals for lightning talks to address this imbalance, its challenges, and possible avenues for future engagement. Presentations could also focus on elucidating oral music theory traditions.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Some guiding questions include: </span></p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How might we adapt our framing language, methodologies, scholarly assumptions, etc. to welcome greater participation of scholars associated with or working on oral traditions? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What are the different constraints or affordances of music-theoretical insights that take on an oral modality? </span></p></li></ul><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What are the stakes of addressing repertoires that are disseminated predominantly through oral tradition in theoretical contexts? What rationales might account for the shortage of examples? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Which precedents or traditions of theorizing attend to oral cultures of music? How? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Are there examples in which a theoretical account of orally-traded repertoires has influenced the repertoire itself, in its modes of dissemination, conceptual framing, idiomaticity, or stylistic development? </span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We envision the panel to feature a series of 10-minute lightning talks</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, followed by general discussion. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please email abstracts of no more than 250 words, together with a brief bio (ca 150 words)  to </span><a href="mailto:historyofmusictheory@gmail.com" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">historyofmusictheory@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. The deadline for submission is </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thursday, June 29, 2023.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> We will inform potential speakers of the decision by July 17. Accepted speakers will be expected to participate in person at the 2023 AMS/SMT Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado (November 9–12, 2023).</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div>