Call for Papers: Song and Dance
Harvard Graduate Music Forum

The Harvard Graduate Music Forum is pleased to announce that its Seventh
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on the theme of Song and Dance
will take place at Harvard University on Saturday, February 27, 2010. We invite
graduate students across all disciplines to submit proposals and to interpret
this theme broadly and creatively. Historical, theoretical, analytical,
ethnographical, and other critical approaches that deal with any aspect of song
and/or dance are welcome.

Possible topics include:
- Voices and bodies
- Sound and movement
- Sense, essence, and presence
- Lyric flight
- Staging sex and desire
- Dance and disability
- Performing gender and sexuality
- Gesture and rhythm
- Ritual
- Transmission and choreography
- Songs without words
- Ventriloquism
- Opera, musical theater, radio, television, film, video games, and new
media

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by Friday, January 8,
2010 (5:00PM EST) to gmfconference [at] gmail.com. Since proposals will be
reviewed name-blind, please ensure that your abstract does not contain your name
or academic affiliation. Attach your abstract as a word document and include
your name and contact information in the body of your email. Speakers will be
notified by January 20, 2009.

We are honored to announce that the keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr.
Tomie Hahn, Associate Professor of Performance Ethnology in the Arts Department
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Hahn received her Ph.D. in
ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, her M.A. in urban ethnomusicology from
New York University, and her B.S. in performance and art history from Indiana
University (Bloomington campus). She holds the professional stage name Samie
Tachibana and is a teacher and performer of shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute)
and nihon buyo (Japanese traditional dance). Her ethnography Sensational
Knowledge-Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance (Wesleyan University Press)
was the 2008 recipient of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Alan P. Merriam
Prize, which recognizes the most distinguished published English-language
monograph in the field of ethnomusicology. For more information about Dr. Hahn,
visit http://www.arts.rpi.edu/tomie/.

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We look forward to reading your submissions!

William Cheng and Hannah Lewis
Program Committee Co-Chairs of the Harvard Graduate Music Forum