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2005 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium Reminder: CALL FOR PAPERS
2005 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium
Improvising Matters: Rights, Risks, Responsibilities
The Guelph Jazz Festival, in conjunction with the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre and the University of Guelph, invites proposals for papers to be presented at our annual three-day international multidisciplinary colloquium. This year's colloquium will take place September 7-9 as part of the 12th annual Guelph Jazz Festival (September 7-11). It will bring together a diverse range of scholars, creative practitioners, arts presenters, policy makers, and members of the general public. Featuring workshops, panel discussions, keynote lectures,performances, and dialogues between researchers, artists, and audiences, the annual colloquium cuts across a range of social and institutional locations and promotes a dynamic international exchange of cultural forms and knowledges.
This year’s colloquium will take up the question of why improvisation matters. While we invite papers that address any issues of musical improvisation in relation to rights, risks, and responsibilities, we are particularly interested in the following questions and concerns:
What’s at stake in an improvised musical performance, and for whom? If, as many contemporary theorists have suggested, creativity and innovation are vital tools for building sustainable communities, promoting social cooperation, and adapting to unprecedented change, then what role might improvisation play in this context? What kinds of critical questions might the theory and practice of improvised music-making open up about artistic expression and responsibility; about the role of arts presenters and audiences; about intent and interpretation; about histories and communities; and about activism and forms of critical practice. At its best, improvisation can encourage us to take new risks in our relationships with others, to work together across various divides,traditions, styles, and sites, and to hear (and to see) the world anew. As a fundamental site for the choices made and the challenges emerging out of social contexts, improvisation can provide a trenchant model for new forms of social mobilization that accent agency, collaboration, and difference. But is it possible, by definition, for things to go “wrong” in an improvised performance? Who is responsible, and for what? What’s at stake, and for whom?
We are particularly interested in papers that cut across communities of interest and involvement and that speak to both an academic audience and a generalpublic.
Please send (500 word) proposals or completed papers (for 15 minute delivery) and a short bio by May 31st to: The 2005 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium,
c/o Dr. Ajay Heble, Artistic Director, The Guelph Jazz Festival
123 Woolwich Street, second floor
Guelph, Ontario N1H 3V1 CANADA
email: [email protected]
Fax: 519-763-3155
Improvising Matters: Rights, Risks, Responsibilities
The Guelph Jazz Festival, in conjunction with the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre and the University of Guelph, invites proposals for papers to be presented at our annual three-day international multidisciplinary colloquium. This year's colloquium will take place September 7-9 as part of the 12th annual Guelph Jazz Festival (September 7-11). It will bring together a diverse range of scholars, creative practitioners, arts presenters, policy makers, and members of the general public. Featuring workshops, panel discussions, keynote lectures,performances, and dialogues between researchers, artists, and audiences, the annual colloquium cuts across a range of social and institutional locations and promotes a dynamic international exchange of cultural forms and knowledges.
This year’s colloquium will take up the question of why improvisation matters. While we invite papers that address any issues of musical improvisation in relation to rights, risks, and responsibilities, we are particularly interested in the following questions and concerns:
What’s at stake in an improvised musical performance, and for whom? If, as many contemporary theorists have suggested, creativity and innovation are vital tools for building sustainable communities, promoting social cooperation, and adapting to unprecedented change, then what role might improvisation play in this context? What kinds of critical questions might the theory and practice of improvised music-making open up about artistic expression and responsibility; about the role of arts presenters and audiences; about intent and interpretation; about histories and communities; and about activism and forms of critical practice. At its best, improvisation can encourage us to take new risks in our relationships with others, to work together across various divides,traditions, styles, and sites, and to hear (and to see) the world anew. As a fundamental site for the choices made and the challenges emerging out of social contexts, improvisation can provide a trenchant model for new forms of social mobilization that accent agency, collaboration, and difference. But is it possible, by definition, for things to go “wrong” in an improvised performance? Who is responsible, and for what? What’s at stake, and for whom?
We are particularly interested in papers that cut across communities of interest and involvement and that speak to both an academic audience and a generalpublic.
Please send (500 word) proposals or completed papers (for 15 minute delivery) and a short bio by May 31st to: The 2005 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium,
c/o Dr. Ajay Heble, Artistic Director, The Guelph Jazz Festival
123 Woolwich Street, second floor
Guelph, Ontario N1H 3V1 CANADA
email: [email protected]
Fax: 519-763-3155
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