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October 10, 2022

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Dear MDG friends,

We are excited to announce that Volume 21, Issue 2 of Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (ACT) is now online! Guest edited by Dr. Nasim Niknafs, ACT 21.2 is the first of two special issues dedicated to explorations of antiracism, antifascism, and anti-oppression. A big thank you and congratulations to Nasim and to the authors in this issue: adam patrick bell, Jason Dasent and Gift Tshuma, Clara Haneul Yoon, Juliet Hess, Chris Jenkins, and Stephanie R. Espie for your varied and interesting perspectives on these important topics. Please check out this issue!


Save the date for MayDay Group Colloquium 34 at Facultad de Música de la Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico! The MayDay Group invites scholars, music makers, educators, and innovators from around the globe to submit proposals to this year’s colloquium centered on the Action Ideal Collaboration Across Cultures, due February 6, 2023. Read on below for the complete call for proposals, and more. 


Sincerely,


Danielle Sirek, PhD

Editor


Jason Huxtable, FHEA

Assistant Editor

Announcements

  • Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (ACT) 21, 2 - now online!
  • MayDay Group Colloquium 34: Collaboration Across Cultures

Conferences, Workshops, & Calls

  • International Society for Music Education
  • Dialogues between art and welfare: Policies for the promotion of social well-being
  • National Singing Symposium

Nominations & Awards

  • International Society for Music Education (ISME) seeks new CEO

Position Vacancies

  • Assistant Professor of Music (tenure-track) - Colorado College
  • Assistant Professor of Music Education (tenure-track) - Drake University
Announcements

Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (ACT) 21, 2

Now online!

We are excited to announce that Volume 21, Issue 2 of Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (ACT) is now online! Guest edited by Dr. Nasim Niknafs, ACT 21.2 is the first of two special issues dedicated to explorations of antiracism, antifascism, and anti-oppression. A big thank you and congratulations to Nasim and to the authors in this issue: adam patrick bell, Jason Dasent and Gift Tshuma, Clara Haneul Yoon, Juliet Hess, Chris Jenkins, and Stephanie R. Espie for your varied and interesting perspectives on these important topics. Please check out this issue!


http://act.maydaygroup.org/current-issue/ 

MayDay Group Colloquium 34: Collaboration Across Cultures

Facultad de Música de la Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

COLLOQUIUM 34

Facultad de Música de la Universidad Veracruzana

Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

25 June 25 - 1 July 2023  


CALL FOR PROPOSALS


The MayDay Group invites scholars, music makers, educators, and innovators from around the globe to submit proposals to this year’s colloquium centered on the following action ideal: 

 

COLLABORATION ACROSS CULTURES


We engage in mutually beneficial collaboration(s) and thoughtful inter-, intra-, cross-, and trans-cultural exchange(s) with musicians outside our own cultural practice(s) to further understanding of one another’s worldviews and related ways of being and doing.


Music and its modes of transmission take place in contexts created by the relationships that connect us to one another and to the myriad modes through which we construct knowledge. Acknowledging that power differentials are embedded in each inter-, intra-, cross-, and trans-cultural exchange, we commit to ethical ways of engagement, which support multiple modes of thinking and doing that lead to meaningful musical actions. Because we participate and collaborate in living cultural praxes, discussions of music’s meanings and educative values must concern not just sound itself and how we listen to it, but also how we engage with, respond to, and perpetuate music’s (de)humanizing functions.


COLLOQUIUM FORMAT


Presentations—better understood at MayDay Colloquia as provocations—are designed to stimulate discussion and debate. Therefore, each presenter will be allocated 45 minutes, to include no more than 25 minutes for the presentation and no fewer than 20 minutes for discussion. Proposals that go outside the conventional scope of a provocation are encouraged. Musical engagements will also be considered. Projectors, speakers, and screens will be available, but it is completely acceptable to use no supporting technology. Presenters must register and are expected to be in attendance at the colloquium. Extenuating circumstances to in-person presentations will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the colloquium coordinator if accommodations are needed due to political or health related issues. 


PROPOSAL SUBMISSION PROCESS


Please submit both: a proposal of no more than 800 words (references not included in word count) and an abstract of no more than 100 words as email attachments. Incomplete submissions will not be considered. State your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and other contact information in the body of the email only. There should be no identifiers on proposals or abstracts. Submit before 6 February 2023 to: MayDayGroup34@gmail.com


Proposals will be blind reviewed anonymously by committee and evaluated according to the following criteria: clarity of ideas, contribution to/interest for the profession, relevance and contribution to theory, and connection to the action ideal and surrounding questions.


Notification will occur by email no later than 13 March 2023. If accepted, the primary presenter and any co-presenters must register for the conference no later than 3 April, 2023 or forfeit their acceptance.


Registration information will be posted on the MDG 34 Colloquium website at http://mdg34.weebly.com


Accepted abstracts will be posted to the Colloquium website by 17 April 2023 and cannot be changed after that date.


QUESTIONS? Please contact us at: MayDayGroup34@gmail.com

Conferences, Workshops, & Calls

International Society for Music Education

Conference Dates

The next world conference is set for Helsinki, Finland on 28 July to 2 August 2024 and the theme has been announced. It's advocacy for sustainability in music education.


The details are here.


World Conference


36th ISME World Conference. Helsinki, Finland. 28 July to 2 August 2024.

37th ISME World Conference. Montreal, Canada. 21 July to 1 August 2026.


Regional Conferences


EAS. 24-27 May 2023. Lyon, France

PASMAE. 24-28 July 2023. University of Cape Coast. Ghana.

Pan America/Latin America: 24-28 July 2023. Bogota. Colombia.

APSMER - 17-18 August 2023. Seoul, South Korea.

South Asia - to be advised

Latin America - to be advised

Dialogues between art and welfare:

Policies for the promotion of social well-being

Call for papers (in English, French or Italian): Dialogues between art and welfare. Policies for the promotion of social well-being. With a special focus on relational art and participatory art and music as a collective expression. Please submit until October 30.


Under the impetus of the aesthetic revolutions of the twentieth century, the arts set out on a path, restless but fruitful, to question humanity in all its forms and relationships (De Micheli, 1986). Along this road they have overturned their premises, they have overcome their own frameworks, as well as their ethnocentrism, they have contaminated each other. A journey that has led artists to question their public role and to “immerse themselves in the heart of the social fabric” (Scardi, 2011). The world of the arts has thus shown itself to be an agent of development that, with its own languages, contributes to the overcoming of cultural fences and to the process of emancipation. In this capacity, the arts have been valued and recognized as generating health and well-being for the individual and for the community.


In the contemporary arts (understood in their broadest sense and multiplicity: visual as well as performing arts, arts of writing, music, etc.) a generation of artists, inclined to sharing and particularly receptive to social challenges, has established itself. Many artists have taken on an activist posture (Trione, 2022) and act in urban and institutional spaces, in particular in those marked by marginalization or social problems, to imagine new visions, new possibilities of life and emancipation (Paltrinieri, 2020).


In these contexts, the language of music is also a reason for territorial animation and revival of the cultural identity of a place, but it has often been, and still is, uncomfortable and provocative, inextricably linked to the times, places and socio-cultural contexts that generated it. The art of music becomes a megaphone for injustices and social inequalities, denouncing needs which often span several generations transversely (Rossi, 2020).


These orientations of art, given their radicality and depth, often arrive at gestures which may be difficult to position within traditional aesthetic categories, opening up new scenarios that stand on the border between artistic and social gesture, and even going so far as to bracket the very concept of authorship. Think, for example, of the performance “Legarsi alla montagna” (Tying oneself to the mountain) by the artist Maria Lai (Pontiggia et al., 2021), which started the fascinating contemporary strand of the so-called relational art (Bourriaud, 2010).


In the evolution of welfare, there are several moments of intertwining with artistic actions. It is even possible to recall the work of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Haddams, at the dawn of social work at the end of the nineteenth century, at the Hull House, the famous Chicago Settlement. In the districts of that city, transformed by the great migrations, the work on needs and rights promoted by Hull House was born from the encounter of the many individualities and cultures: music, painting, dance, the nascent photography, all became vehicles for sharing and took on a central role to promote the transformation of all those involved (Addams, 1910). Culture and the arts can therefore be a strategic lever to promote the well-being of individuals and communities. The WHO (WHO, 2019), in analyzing the link between arts and health, underlines how “artistic activities, thanks to their complex and multimodal nature, are able to combine several different components, all known to be healthy”. Today there is a vast field of practices, with a recognizable tradition and solid thought frames – present both in the arts scene and in the panorama of social policies – to which this issue wants to turn its gaze, proposing to question the contributions that art – in its different forms – is offering to welfare, and equally the attention that welfare actors are oncreasingly paying to the worlds and languages of the arts. 


The relationship between arts and welfare is part of social policies that aim to counteract fragility and inequality and improve the quality of life and psychophysical well-being.


Specifically, we wish to focus on:

* Relational art and participatory art

* Music as a collective expression/language

* Photography as a means of communication and denunciation

* Narration and poetry as expressions of the individual and collective self

* Visual arts and welfare.


Contributions, in Italian, English or French, that present historical studies, reflections on practices, and welfare case studies that have included in their delivery forms and artistic practices of a national and international nature, interrelationship between arts and welfare as practices of social innovation, will be positively evaluated. Potential authors of this issue of Welfare & Ergonomics are invited to submit an abstract of about 3,000 characters (spaces included) by October 30, 2022. And, if accepted, by February 28, 2023, the contribution in full according to the following subdivision: 


  • theoretical contributions (subject to peer review) of no more than 25,000 characters (including spaces);
  • empirical research (subjectand peer reviewed) of no more than 25,000 characters (including spaces);
  • practical experiences (not reviewed) not exceeding 15,000 characters (including spaces).


For the purposes of evaluation, the abstract must be divided into:

  • introduction to the subject matter;
  • scientific frame within which to place the contribution, reconstruction of the national and international debate;
  • methodological framework adopted and the hypotheses formulated;
  • the most important and innovative outcomes;
  • essential bibliographic references.


E-mail addresses to send abstracts:


Claudio.Mustacchi@supsi.ch

welfarergonomia.rel@irpps.cnr.it  


After the communication of acceptance of the proposals by the curators and the Journal, Authors must register online on the web page of the OJS platform of the publisher FrancoAngeli:


https://ojs.francoangeli.it/_ojs/index.php/we/user/register


Once the registration is complete, Authors will be able to upload the paper by clicking on the “Make a new proposal” link available in the Dashboard. Proposers will be notified if the paper proposal is not relevant to the themes of the Journal.


BIBLIOGRAPHY


Addams J. (1910). “Arts at Hull House”. Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes. The MacMillan Company. Disponibile all’URL:

http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse.html#65


Bourriaud  N. (2010). Estetica relazionale. Postmedia Books. Cicerchia A


Cicerchia A. (2021). Che cosa muove la cultura. Impatti, misure e racconti tra economia e immaginario. Milano: Bibliografica.


Giddens A. (1994). Le conseguenze della modernità. Fiducia e rischio, sicurezza e pericolo. Bologna: il Mulino.


Manzoni G. e Paltrinieri R., a cura di (2021). Welfare culturale. La dimensione della cultura nei processi di Welfare di Comunità. Roma: FrancoAngeli. 


Mustacchi C. (2020). L’educazione poetica: Dalle teorie della narrazione all’esperienza della poesia. Milano: Unicopli.


Nussbaum M.C. (2011). Non per profitto perché le democrazie hanno bisogno della cultura umanistica. Bologna: il Mulino.


WHO (2019). Health Evidence Network Synthesis. Report 67.


Paltrinieri R., a cura di (2020). Culture e pratiche di partecipazione. Collaborazione civica, rigenerazione urbana e costruzione di comunità. Roma: FrancoAngeli.


Pontiggia E., Pisu M.S., Prunas R., Brandinelli G., & Gardin P.B. (2021). Maria Lai. Legarsi alla montagna. Ediz. italiana e inglese: Binding to the mountain. (Illustrated-Bilingual edizione). 5 Continents Editions.


Rossi M. (2020). Lotte di note. La contestazione tra musica e parole: 1968-1977. Viterbo (Rm): Stampa Alternativa.


Scardi G. (2011). Paesaggio con figura: Arte, sfera pubblica, trasformazione sociale / a cura di Gabi Scardi. Allemandi & C. Susa Culture Project.


Trione V. (2022). Artivismo. Arte, politica, impegno, Torino: Einaudi.


Villa A. e Cappa F., a cura di (2021). Nel segno di una canzone. Autobiografie musicali e formazioni di sé. Sesto San Giovanni (MI): Mimesis.

National Singing Symposium

Event Date: November 8, 2022

Event Time: 9:30 am

Event Location: Leeds Conservatoire


After a hiatus of two years, our popular national conference dedicated to singing (formally known as the Singing Strategy Symposium) returns!


This event will have two strands – research presentations & practical workshops. Confirmed sessions include:


  • Applying a Clean Approach to Traditional Imagery Based Voice Pedagogy (Jenna Brown)
  • Purposeful Distraction (Colin D Reed)
  • Singing and Songwriting: a tool kit for wellbeing in primary & secondary education (Sophie Garner)
  • Singing Playgrounds & Choirmaker (Ex Cathedra)
  • Bitchin Pitching (Heather Baker)
  • Singing as the ‘golden thread’ of the National Plan for Music Education (Dr Liz Stafford)
  • Inclusive approaches to teaching TGNC students in the singing studio


Exhibitors include: BrittenPears Arts & Ex Cathedra

More information coming in the Autumn Term 2022.


Click here to register: https://musiceducationsolutions.co.uk/our-events-new/singing-strategy-symposium/?fbclid=IwAR1sI2Kpeu9fWF6-KUItnn1BKwsT26RRdlsWVeUY-0wU7Ne3ufnYOtkx1wY

Nominations & Awards

International Society for Music Education (ISME) seeks new CEO

After four years, Ian Harvey is stepping down as CEO of ISME and the Society is now calling for applications for the role.


The CEO is a pro-active leader, working at the direction of the Executive and Board, to guide a complex organisation both strategically and operationally. The role is a part-time, self-employed contract position.


A position description and a draft contract can be downloaded on the ISME website Applications close 15 November 2022.


Currently ISME’s management office comprises four individuals, all working part time. This consists of the CEO, an admin and finance officer, a communications officer and a support officer. Once the CEO has been appointed the structure of the management office will be reviewed and adjusted accordingly. All of the current team will not be remaining with ISME.


ISME thanks Ian Harvey and the team for their years of service and encourages suitably qualified individuals to apply for the role. Members are encouraged to share this opportunity with their networks.

Job Announcements

Assistant Professor of Music (tenure-track)

Colorado College

Assistant Professor of Music at Colorado College

  

Colorado College invites applications for a tenure-track professor in the Department of Music for the 2023-2024 academic year. We seek a teacher-scholar, with a commitment to undergraduate liberal arts pedagogy. The successful candidate’s work in these areas will draw on current critical and decolonial approaches to music studies, engaging multi-perspectival methodologies. These could include historical, contemporary, creative, performance, theoretical, and/or musicological practices. Beyond our departmental offerings, candidates should have an interest in developing curricula for our college-wide interdisciplinary and General Education programs, as well as implementing experimental, experiential, participatory, collaborative, and/or community-based pedagogies. The successful candidate will help advance the college’s commitment to antiracism

 

The College actively promotes a dynamic, inclusive and antiracist environment in which students and employees of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives can learn and work. Applicants should describe the ways in which they can contribute to this goal in a dedicated Antiracism/DEI statement based on specific examples of past, present, and future efforts. 

 

One distinguishing feature of Colorado College is its Block Plan and candidates are encouraged to explore the opportunities this academic schedule affords for both teaching and research. For more information, consult the departmental web page. In addition to its salary compensation and competitive benefits package, the college supports scholarly and creative activity via start-up research funds, a generous sabbatical program, funds for travel to conferences, and internal grant opportunities. 

  

A PhD is required, but ABD will be considered if the degree is completed by the start of employment. Applications should include the following materials: 1) a cover letter discussing “why Colorado College?” as well as anticipated contributions to the music department and college community; 2) a teaching philosophy statement; 3) a research statement; 4) an antiracism/DEI statement; 5) a curriculum vitae; and 6) contact information for three references. Additional materials will be requested of candidates that move forward, including sample syllabi, samples of scholarly work, graduate transcript(s), and three letters of recommendation. Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2022 and will continue until the position is filled. Materials should be submitted to http://tiny.cc/CCMusicStudies. Address inquiries to Ryan Bañagale, Department of Music at rbanagale@coloradocollege.edu

  

Colorado College is an equal opportunity employer committed to increasing the diversity of its community. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion, gender identity or expression, disability, or sexual orientation in our educational programs and activities or our employment practices. 

  

Liliana Carrizo, PhD

Assistant Professor of Music

Faculty Affiliate, Southwest Studies & Latin American Studies

She/Her/Hers

Department of Music


COLORADO COLLEGE 

14 E. Cache La Poudre St.

Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903 

www.coloradocollege.edu

lcarrizo@coloradocollege.edu

Assistant Professor of Music Education (tenure-track)

Drake University

Institution: Drake University

Position: Assistant Professor of Music Education -- full-time, tenure-track appointment Qualifications:Three (3) years of public school teaching experience; Doctorate required by the time of appointment

Position Expectations:The successful candidate will coordinate and oversee the comprehensive Music Education program, serving as liaison between the Department of Music and the School of Education. Teaching duties assigned, commensurate with the candidate's expertise, include an introduction to music education class, elementary and/or secondary choral or instrumental music education methods courses, and a measurement and evaluation course; supervising student teachers; recruiting and advising music education students; developing, assessing, and revising the curriculum. In addition, demonstrable knowledge of music education technologies is needed, as well as a minimum requirement of three (3) years public school teaching experience. Those with a Ph.D. or ABD are welcome to apply, but please note that the Doctorate is required by the time of appointment.


Who should apply?


Candidates with a demonstrated ability to cultivate collegiality and to work effectively with faculty, staff, and students; excellent interpersonal, presentation, facilitation, and communication skills; a drive and evidence of the pursuit of scholarly activities (including writing, or professional presentations) and service opportunities in professional organizations; a desire to build and maintain positive relationships with area educators including participating in the statewide music education community; exhibiting interest, experience, and success working with diverse students and colleagues.


Drake University is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to cultivating an environment of inclusive excellence. We particularly welcome applications from candidates affiliated with groups historically under-represented in the profession and those who have demonstrated success in working with diverse students, faculty, and staff.


Applications Must Include:To apply, please visit www.drake.edu/hr and include the following materials: a letter of application addressing qualifications, a current curriculum vitae, a philosophy of teaching, a statement of diversity, three letters of reference including contact details, and a link to a sample classroom teaching or lecture presentation video of fifteen (15) minutes in length.


Please note that no ensemble rehearsals or studio lesson videos will be accepted.


URL to Complete Application: https://drake.hiretouch.com 

Application Deadline: Friday, December 2nd, 2022

Applications Will Be Reviewed Starting: Friday, December 2nd, 2022 Inquiries About the Position Should Be Directed to: Dr. Ann Cravero, Professor of Voice and Search Committee Chair at Drake University (ann.cravero@drake.edu)

Department website: https://drake.edu/music


The Drake University Department of Music's mission is to provide a center for the study and understanding of music that develops students' intellectual, practical, and expressive abilities by emphasizing professional preparation, collaborative learning, critical thinking, and musical communication. At Drake, students will find the best of both worlds: a music department that is large enough to support a vast range of musical activities, but small enough for students to receive highly personalized instruction and individual mentorship.


Drake Music students share in the excitement that comes from working with renowned artists who are committed to excellence. Opportunities abound, enabling students to succeed in their chosen field, whether it is performance, education, music business, or research.


This breadth and depth brings Drake students flexibility in career choices. Graduates of the Drake Department of Music are well-trained and well-rounded musicians who are highly competitive in today's complex and fluid musical world.


Drake University is in the beautiful, mid-size city of Des Moines, Iowa. The Des Moines metro offers numerous festivals and cultural celebrations; a selection of museums and theaters; parks and miles of trails; and a surprisingly wide range of dining options. Drake students earn positions in the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra and perform in many other venues in the metro area as well as on campus.

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