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Event Name: Music and the Asian Diaspora

Event Location: Westminster Choir College of Rider University

Event Date(s): April 8-9, 2006

Deadline for Proposals: February 15, 2006

Event Description and Information:

Westminster Choir College of Rider University (Princeton, NJ) is pleased to announce a symposium on "Music and the Asian Diaspora" to be held April 8-9, 2006. The symposium will feature:

-- a keynote address by Ajay Kapur (University of Victoria) entitled "21st-Century Ethnomusicology: Adopting the Age of Human-Computer Interaction." Mr. Kapur has performed on percussion instruments for 14 years while studying world rhythms, composition, Indian classical theory, and computer-based music theory. He is currently working on developing intelligent music and media technology. His recent article, "Digitizing North Indian Performance," won the Journal of New Music Research Distinguished Best Paper Award in 2004;

-- a lecture and a screening of two films, My Brown Eyes and True, by Jay Koh. A native of South Korea, Mr. Koh and his family immigrated to the United States in 1979. Koh is the executive director of Kingstreet Media, a non-profit motion picture production company dedicated to educating and developing new and emerging talent in the Asian American community. Kingstreet Media strives to produce films that demystify Asian Americans and other under-represented communities that Hollywood and the mass media have left behind;

-- a Saturday evening concert that features traditional Asian music as well as contemporary Asian-American music. Scheduled performers include Gamelan Dharma Swara and happyfunsmile.

Westminster Choir College is a residential college of music located on a 23-acre campus in Princeton, New Jersey. Our student body includes 330 enrolled in the four-year undergraduate programs leading to the Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts in Music degrees, 110 graduate students working toward the Master of Music degree. We also offer two summer-study degree programs: Master of Music Education and Master of Voice Pedagogy.

Proposal Instructions / Guidelines:

Proposals for papers (30-minute presentation plus 15-minute question period) on topics related to "Music and the Asian Diaspora" (broadly defined) are currently accepted. This symposium seeks to be inclusive, and welcomes proposals from the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, music education, composition, and performance, provided that their focus remains the interaction of words with music.

Papers on the following topics are particularly encouraged:
-- music in "overseas Asian communities"
-- the teaching of Asian musics in North American and European schools and universities
-- Asian-influenced music by non-Asian composers.

Proposals should be in the form of an abstract of no more than 500 words (including a list of AV equipment needs), and must be submitted via email to Eric Hung (ehung@rider.edu) by February 5, 2006.

[From the Lyrica Society:] Proposals must be submitted by February 15 via email to lyricasociety@aol.com with �LYRICA/ASIA� in the subject line.

Presenters at this symposium will have the opportunity to publish their papers in a special interdisciplinary issue of Visions of Research in Music Education.

Contact:

Additional information about the conference, including registration forms and transportation/lodging options, will be posted on the conference website, http://www.musicandtheasiandiaspora.com, February 1, 2006.

Date Listed: 02/01/2006

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