Centre for Intercultural
Musicology
at Churchill College
Akin Euba, Director
presents
4th Biennial International Symposium and Festival
on
COMPOSITION
IN AFRICA AND
THE DIASPORA
Akin
Euba, Director
Featuring:
Composers’ Sessions,
Scholarly Sessions,
and Live Concerts,
Also
including:
Dialogues in
Music
Africa
Meets Asia • Africa Meets Latin America
Dates:
1-4 August 2007
Venue:
Churchill College
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB3 0DS
England
Application
for Participation in the Fourth Biennial International
Symposium and Festival on the theme “Composition in
Africa and the Diaspora,”
taking place at Churchill College,
University of Cambridge, from 1-4 August 2007
Surname:
________________________________
First Name: ________________________________
Institution: ________________________________
Address: ________________________________
________________________________
________________________________
Telephone:
________________________________
E-mail: ________________________________
I am interested in attending and would like to participate
in:
(mark
as appropriate or leave blank if participating as a
listener)
___ Composers’ Sessions
___ Scholarly Sessions
___ Live Concerts
For
scholarly sessions, please send title and abstract of your
paper, and for live concerts please send your
programme.
The event
will comprise three sections as follows
1. Scholarly sessions will be on topics pertaining to
(i)
History (ii) Style (iii) Performance (iv) Aesthetics (v)
Social context
(vi) Reception (vii) Marketing (viii) Publishing (ix)
Pedagogy
(x) Contacts with Asia or Latin America.
Proposals for papers must be submitted in the form of a 300
word abstract.
2.
Special sessions will be available for composers to discuss
their works, illustrated with live and/or recorded
examples.
3. Live concerts will feature the works of composers of
Africa and the Diaspora as well as works by composers of
non-African origin in which African resources are used.
You are
invited to submit proposals for any of the sections not
later than
1
February 2007.
Funds available to the organizers are very limited and,
therefore, all participants are expected to provide their
own funds in respect of local and international travel and
board and lodging. Lodging will be available at Churchill
College and details of cost will be communicated to you at
a later date.
Registration fees will be £100.00, payable in cash when you
arrive at the symposium and festival.
Please address all correspondence to:
Akin
Euba
Andrew W. Mellon Professor,
Department of Music,
University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
USA
E-mail: aeuba@pitt.edu
Phone: (412) 624-4199
Fax: (412) 624-4186
You
are also invited to visit our website:
www.CompositionInAfrica.org
A Bridge
Across
From Pittsburgh to Cambridge
This event is supported by the project A Bridge
Across: Intercultural Composition, Performance,
Musicology of the University of Pittsburgh