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North American British
Music Studies Association Biennial Conference 2014: Call for Proposals
The North American British
Music Studies Association will hold its Sixth Biennial Conference from Thursday
through Sunday, July 31 to August 3, 2014, in Las Vegas, Nevada, hosted by the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Proposals on topics related to all aspects of
British music and musical life in general throughout Britain, the Empire, and
beyond are welcome. Those that draw upon interdisciplinary or broader cultural
contexts are particularly welcome.
Presentations may take a variety of formats, including individual papers of
twenty minutes in length, workshops involving group participation, roundtable
discussions, lecture-recitals, and themed panel sessions. The Nicholas
Temperley Prize will be awarded for the best scholarly presentation given by a
graduate student.
Proposal format and content
For individual papers,
abstracts not exceeding 350 words should clearly present the title, the subject,
the methodology, the argument, and the significance of the findings. For presentations in other
formats, proposals should be of similar length (maximum 350 words); they should
clearly state and justify the intended format, including amount of time
requested, and should indicate the originality and significance of the material
to be delivered.
Those proposing
lecture-recitals must also include recordings of the proposed performer(s)
playing examples of the proposed repertory if not of the exact proposed
work(s). Anyone proposing a
lecture-recital should attach a short biography. All proposals should also
indicate audio-visual needs (in a separate line at the end of the abstract, not
included in word count). Students should identify
themselves as such on the non-anonymous copy of the abstract (see below), so
that their papers can be considered for the Temperley Prize.
Proposal transmission
procedures
Proposals should be sent via
e-mail attachment to the Program Committee Chair Roberta Montemorra Marvin (roberta-marvin@uiowa.edu) with the
subject-line NABMSA 2014 Proposal. The e-mail should carry two
attachments in Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx, or .rtf only). The first attachment (file
name = anonymous submission_short title of the proposal) should include within
the text only title and abstract. The second attachment (file
name = your own last name_short title of the proposal) should contain within
the text your name, address, telephone, fax, e-mail address, and institutional
affiliation or city, along with the paper title and abstract. The content of this
second attachment should also be pasted into the body of the e-mail in case of
transmission problems. Audio or video recordings
supporting proposals for lecture-recitals are required (demo disc, .mp3 files,
etc.) and should be received (electronically) by the same deadline as the
abstract (see below). Please contact the Program Chair via email for instructions
on how to transmit these materials electronically. Do not send them as email
attachments.
The deadline for all
submissions is midnight, Eastern Standard Time, January 20, 2014. It is the policy of the
Association that all presenters be members in good standing. More information
about NABMSA and its activities may be seen on the Association’s web site, http://nabmsa.org/conferences/2014-biennial-conference/
. Submissions will be acknowledged
within four days of receipt. Participants will be notified of the acceptance by
mid-March 2014. Program Committee for 2014: Roberta Montemorra Marvin
(University of Iowa), chair; Christopher Scheer (Utah State University), Derek
Scott (University of Leeds); Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Syracuse University)
