Post by Dick Glasgow on Apr 1, 2015 19:38:54 GMT
Hi,
Dr Frances Wilkins, Lecturer | Researcher | Performer in Aberdeen & organiser of the Button Boxes and Moothies Festival 2015 { 6-8 November 2015 ]
asked me to post these details here for your attention.
Cheers,
Dick
BFE Study Day: 6th November 2015 ~ Call for Papers!
BFEStudy day
Friday6 November 2015
TheElphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Call for Papers
The Elphinstone Institute, in association with the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, invite abstracts for our study day in Aberdeen, 6 November 2015.
Mouth Blown and Bellows Blown: Free ReedInstruments in their Social Contexts
Although small framed free reed instruments only came to prominence in Europe in the nineteenth century (with the exception of the Jew’s harp),
the earliest mouth-blowninstruments date back over 2000 years in East Asia. This family of instruments,which includes melodeons, button boxes
and other diatonic accordions, concertinas,harmonicas, Jew’s harps,bandoneóns,Chinese shēng, Japanese shōand the Laotian khene, has gained
widespread popularity but its status withinmusical culture has often been considered low in comparison to otherinstruments.
This contention is one aspect which we would like to address during the study day.
We are also interested in papers on the followingthemes:
-Free reed instruments in social life, including sacred, occupational, and entertainment contexts - for example, nautical music-making and Salvation Armybands.
- Repertoires of free reed instruments
- Performance style and technique
- Teaching and learning of free reed music
- Free reed instruments in historical context
- Masters of tradition
- Playing free reed instruments for dancing
- Organology and manufacture of instruments
- The representation of free reed instruments in the media
- Their use in popular music forms including jazz andblues.
- The relationship between social class and free reed instruments– for example, the use of the mouth organ by soldiers in the trenches duringthe First World War.
Individualpapers of 20 minutes are invited.
Please send 300 word abstracts to:
frances.wilkins@abdn.ac.uk
ianrussell@abdn.ac.uk
Allabstracts will be peer reviewed
Closing date for abstracts: Friday 12 June2015.
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Dr Frances Wilkins, Lecturer | Researcher | Performer in Aberdeen & organiser of the Button Boxes and Moothies Festival 2015 { 6-8 November 2015 ]
asked me to post these details here for your attention.
Cheers,
Dick
BFE Study Day: 6th November 2015 ~ Call for Papers!
BFEStudy day
Friday6 November 2015
TheElphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Call for Papers
The Elphinstone Institute, in association with the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, invite abstracts for our study day in Aberdeen, 6 November 2015.
Mouth Blown and Bellows Blown: Free ReedInstruments in their Social Contexts
Although small framed free reed instruments only came to prominence in Europe in the nineteenth century (with the exception of the Jew’s harp),
the earliest mouth-blowninstruments date back over 2000 years in East Asia. This family of instruments,which includes melodeons, button boxes
and other diatonic accordions, concertinas,harmonicas, Jew’s harps,bandoneóns,Chinese shēng, Japanese shōand the Laotian khene, has gained
widespread popularity but its status withinmusical culture has often been considered low in comparison to otherinstruments.
This contention is one aspect which we would like to address during the study day.
We are also interested in papers on the followingthemes:
-Free reed instruments in social life, including sacred, occupational, and entertainment contexts - for example, nautical music-making and Salvation Armybands.
- Repertoires of free reed instruments
- Performance style and technique
- Teaching and learning of free reed music
- Free reed instruments in historical context
- Masters of tradition
- Playing free reed instruments for dancing
- Organology and manufacture of instruments
- The representation of free reed instruments in the media
- Their use in popular music forms including jazz andblues.
- The relationship between social class and free reed instruments– for example, the use of the mouth organ by soldiers in the trenches duringthe First World War.
Individualpapers of 20 minutes are invited.
Please send 300 word abstracts to:
frances.wilkins@abdn.ac.uk
ianrussell@abdn.ac.uk
Allabstracts will be peer reviewed
Closing date for abstracts: Friday 12 June2015.
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