CFP: Music & Postmodern Cultural Theory (Australia) (4/15/06; 12/5/06-12/6/06)
MUSIC AND POSTMODERN CULTURAL THEORY (AUSTRALIA)
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference
University of Melbourne
Australia
5-6 December 2006
Twenty years after the term "postmodernism" became common currency in
analyses of contemporary literature, architecture, visual arts,
philosophy and popular culture, we still find the editor of the recent
Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism (2004) lamenting "the strange
absence of a mature postmodernist discourse within music studies," and
suggesting that "the relative conservatism and autonomy of the world of
academic music study may account for its long resistance to
postmodernist formulations and arguments."