CFP: Music as Performance (no deadline; PSFG, 7/27/05-7/28/05)

The Music As Performance working group of the Performance Studies Focus
Groups invites interested participants to join us at our second annual
meeting to be held on Wednesday 27 July and the morning of 28 July at the
Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. This is part of the annual
Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) of ATHE's 3rd annual Preconference,
"Conceptions of the (American) 'West': Response/Ability."

For details on the entire preconference and registration information, please
check out the website at http://www.athe.org/FG/ps

The music as Performance working Group meeting for 2005 is coordinated by
Elizabeth Patterson. The founding coordinator is Philip Auslander.

Although Performance Studies takes the traditional performing arts as part
of its purview, the discipline has largely ignored the performance of music.
This working group seeks to redress that neglect by investigating what a
Performance Studies perspective on music might yield. At our initial
gathering in 2004, the working group took non-theatrical music performance
(that is, concerts and similar performances rather than musical theatre or
opera) in any genre as its main objects of inquiry in order to begin a
conversation addressing significant questions like these:

- What are the barriers to building connections between Performance Studies
and music?
- What does Performance Studies have to offer the study of music?
- How is a Performance Studies perspective different from other points of
view (ie, musicology or cultural studies)?

At our second annual gathering at the Performance Studies Pre-Conference in
San Francisco, we will continue that conversation with an additional eye
toward this year's theme. The session coordinator will assign readings and a
practical exercise to use as a springboard for the group's work.

Possible topics and questions include:

- What are some basic delineations of Western regions within the world of
American music performance?
- Is music performance more closely entrenched in its geographic areas of
origin or presentation than other performance forms (ie, The California
Sound, Southern Rock, Country & Western, the Seattle scene)?
- If so, what is it about music performance that cultivates and supports
that tie?
- How does this association impact the placement and treatment of music
within the larger context of Performance Studies as a discipline?

In order to give us a point of departure, the session coordinator will
assign some readings in texts that relate directly to the questions at hand.

For questions about the Music as Performance Working group, contact
Elizabeth Patterson at elizabeth.patterson_at_colorado.edu.

For general preconference questions, please contact Joshua Abrams and
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck at ps_at_athe.org or visit the website at
http://www.athe.org/FG/ps.

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