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Schulich School of Music,
Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas &
Improvisation, Community and Social Policy (SSHRC-MCRI)
McGill University, Montreal, QC

Our mandate is to invite recent research and analysis into the diverse ways in which technological change has and continues to effect the meaning and experience of music in the long twentieth century -- not so much in a practical or legal sense but in an aesthetic, philosophical and political sense.
We are keen to involve as rich a diversity of disciplinary and interdisciplinary frameworks as possible. The potential to connect questions of music (re)production and performance to contemporary approaches in critical theory and to broader questions of social change, social history, hermeneutics and cultural representation, is particularly encouraged.

We anticipate a range of conversations and presentations exploring issues ranging from the effect of music recording and archiving of folk, jazz, and other music traditions, to contemporary issues in music digitization and performance technologies, including some of all of the following themes:

• Commodification and question of technology
• Technology, memory and the archive
• Technologies of sound and space
• Composers, recordings, performers and interpretations
• Text and context in recording technologies
• Ethnomusicology, preservation and authenticity
• Technology and contemporary philosophy
• Globalization and technology
• Digitization, impacts and potentials
• Music and politics
• Technology and event

Proposals for complete panels as well as for individual papers are welcome. Researchers are invited to submit panel and/or paper abstracts of no more than 250 words, and brief (2 page) cvs to Ghost.Machine@McGill.ca.

Registration fee: $50 (faculty); $25 (student)