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“Music and Memory”

9th Annual Conference
The University of Texas at Austin
Saturday, March 7th, 2009

GAMMA-UT, the Graduate Association of Music and Musicians at UT, announces its
ninth annual conference, “Music and Memory,” to be held on Saturday, March 7th,
2009 at The University of Texas at Austin. Graduate students from the areas of
music theory, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance will
meet to share their research and composers will present their works in a concert
to be held that evening.

This year’s keynote speaker is Aaron Fox. Dr. Fox is an associate professor of
ethnomusicology at Columbia University, where he is also chair of the Department
of Music. His publications include the 2004 book Real Country: Music and
Language in Working-Class Culture (Duke University Press) as well as articles on
country music, music/language relationships, and working-class culture. Dr. Fox
is currently working on a musical heritage repatriation project of field
recordings with the Iñupiat community of Barrow, Alaska.

For more information, please visit our website at
http://gammaut.music.utexas.edu.

Call for Papers

GAMMA-UT is soliciting student papers in the areas of music theory, musicology,
and ethnomusicology. Papers may deal with any aspect of music research and
analysis, particularly those topics that relate to the theme of “Music and
Memory.” Prospective presenters should submit an abstract of 250 words or less
to gammaut@... by Thursday, January 1st, 2009. Please include
your name, email address, mailing address, institutional affiliation and student
status. Papers are to be approximately twenty minutes in length and will be
followed by a ten-minute question session. Applicants will be notified of the
program committee’s decision via e-mail by Sunday, February 1st, 2009.


Questions can be directed to the conference chair Kim Kattari via email:

gammaut@...