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CWMSG / Post-1945 Alternative Formal Panel: Mediating the Cold War
AMS/SMT Minneapolis, November 5–8, 2020.
The AMS Cold War and Music Study Group (CWMSG) and the SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group invite proposals for a joint session on the topic of “Mediating the Cold War,” to be held at the annual meeting of the AMS and SMT in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from November 5–8, 2020. Recent scholarship in music studies, among other disciplines, has demonstrated the central role that technology and mediation have played in shaping musical practices of the Cold War era, as well as our understanding of these practices during the Cold War and its aftermath. The aim of this panel is to encourage further conversations on these topics—both within and across our study groups—and to explore future avenues for scholarship. To this end, we invite prospective panelists to submit proposals for lightning talks (see below) on research related to music, technology, and the Cold War across a wide range of geographic regions and geopolitical contexts. We welcome and encourage talks that deal with examples outside of Europe and the United States. Prospective topics could include work on Cold War “media events,” electronic music studios, considerations of the Cold War’s “technological arms race” and its musical ramifications, the role of radio stations and journalism in creating and disseminating music in Cold War era conflicts, individual compositions with a technological component, and intersections between technology and race, gender politics, and/or disability studies during the Cold War era.
The session itself will take an alternative format, featuring clusters of lightning talks (7-10 minutes) by members of both study groups discussing a topic related to the overarching theme of the panel, followed by discussion. Participants who would like to collaborate on a topic across the two study groups/sub-disciplines can apply as a pair or trio. Alternatively, you can apply as an individual and the evaluating committee with come up with appropriate pairings of talks. Each interested participant should prepare the following:
- A 300 word proposal in which they describe the topic of their talk, its connections to the panel’s themes of technology and/or mediation, and avenues their work presents for further research and dialogue on these topics.
- Those applying as a group should include a cover sheet with the title of each paper and a brief paragraph describing their shared themes, followed by each individual proposal all within the same pdf.
- Proposals may also include up to two pages of accompanying figures/bibliography, though this is not required.
We encourage both individual and small group applications. You are welcome to reach out to either the chair of the CWMSG (Martha Sprigge, msprigge[at]music.ucsb.edu), or the co-chairs of the Post-1945 Interest Group (Tara Boyle, antares[at]pdx.edu, and Laura Emmery, laura.emmery[at]emory.edu) if you have questions as you prepare your proposal. Please submit your proposal as an anonymized pdf to Tara Boyle (antares[at]pdx.edu). In your e-mail, please provide your name, the proposed title of your talk, your primary society affiliation (SMT, AMS, both or neither), any AV requirements you anticipate at this stage, and a very brief (50-word) bio. The deadline for applications is February 24, 2020, 11:59pm, PST. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, and applicants will be informed of the reviewer’s decisions by March 9, 2020. Applications by international scholars, underfunded scholars, and scholars of underrepresented identities are especially encouraged. The Post-1945 Music Analysis IG and the CWMSG will help accepted scholars apply for travel funding opportunities, which may be available through grants such as SMT’s Travel and Subvention Grants and the AMS’s Membership and Professional Development Committee Travel Grants.
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