What's new in music, sociology, anthropology, and women's & gender studies…from your librarian
January 25, 2010 at 9:59 am · Filed under Sociology & Anthropology
- Title:
- Project Minerva and the Militarization of Anthropology.
- Authors:
- Gusterson, Hugh
- Source:
- Radical Teacher; 2009, Issue 86, p4-16
- Abstract:
- The article discusses the 1964 research initiative, the Project Camelot, run by the Special Operations Research Office (SORO) at the American University in Washington, D.C. The said initiative is presented to reduce violence, avoid insurgency and foster development. It cites that the new Minerva initiative of Pentagon in Virginia is keeping an eye on the said project. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban has argued that the said project will be recognized as it reveals several problems concerning anthropologists, who are involved in secret counterinsurgency research in Southeast Asia. Likewise, Project Camelot has set the stage for the adoption by fellows of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
Access the full article here via GALILEO.
January 15, 2010 at 11:13 am · Filed under Music
Abstract
The Internet has changed how scholars perform their research. With more and more content available online that is fully searchable (often even for free), it is not surprising that students and others may turn there first before coming to the library. This study aims to identify the utility of three of the largest free access points to print materials online—Google Book Search, the Internet Archive, and Google Scholar—for use in conducting music research. This study discovers that there are print music materials represented in all three of these tools and that they should not be eschewed by music librarians and others researching music topics.
January 15, 2010 at 11:10 am · Filed under Music, Sociology & Anthropology, Women's & Gender Studies
We have at least one of our own presenting at this conference in March, in Columbia, SC. Keep an eye on this page for more details.
January 7, 2010 at 5:05 pm · Filed under Sociology & Anthropology, Women's & Gender Studies
Want $1000? Check this out. You can access ICPSR via GALILEO here. (Thanks, Brooke!)
December 21, 2009 at 3:16 pm · Filed under Music, Sociology & Anthropology, Women's & Gender Studies
“Religion is the most popular theme studied by historians, according to a new survey of members of the American Historical Association.” (full article here; Dr. Michael Nielsen’s take on it here)
It’s also pervasive in other fields, including my own thesis in anthropology. I’m doing an ethnohistory of Quakers in Savannah and Statesboro.
Are you also studying religion? If so, in which field?
December 15, 2009 at 11:23 am · Filed under Music, Sociology & Anthropology
SEMSEC Call for Papers.
Submission deadline: January 15th, 2010.
The Southeast and Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology
(SEMSEC) is pleased to announce its 2010 Annual Meeting, Friday and
Saturday, March 26-27, 2009 at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton,
FL. Presentations, special sessions, papers with a performance component,
panel discussions, and roundtable forums are solicited on any topic related
to ethnomusicology. The Program Committee encourages proposals that address
the dual conference themes, especially ones that relate to the music of the
Caribbean and Latin America: 1) Rhythm in African and Latin-American
cultures; and 2) Multi-Cited Fieldwork and Comparative Research. Proposals
on other topics are also welcome. The presentation format will be a twenty-
minute paper, followed by a ten-minute discussion.
For consideration, please submit an abstract with a maximum limit of 250
words. Abstracts should clearly indicate a central argument, research
methodology, and conclusions. They should also appear in a format suitable
for direct publication in the abstract booklet. Include title, centered at
the top of the page and, at the bottom right, author’s name, institutional
affiliation or place of residence. Students whose abstracts are selected by
the Program Committee will be eligible for the Dale Olsen prize for the best
student paper (see http://www.music.fsu.edu/semsec/olsen_prize.html)
Please include the following with your proposal:
. Name
. Address
. institutional affiliation
. e-mail address
. phone number
. AV equipment needs
Organized panels consisting of 3 or 4 papers, or 3 papers and a discussant
are also encouraged. Each member of a panel must submit an individual paper
proposal and the panel chair/organizer must submit a panel abstract. The
panel abstract should not exceed 150 words.
The program committee also encourages submission of forum/roundtable-format
discussions based on a conference theme. Forum organizers should submit an
abstract of 150 words or less detailing the central theme, purpose, and
scope of the forum, with a preliminary list of potential participants. The
suggested forum format would be a 90 minute forum, with six panelists
including a discussant [ten-minutes each], but other options will be
considered.
E-mail proposals to Revell Carr, Program Chair:
jrcarr2@uncg.edu
Jamie Cunningham <jcunning@fau.edu>. is coordinating local arrangements for
the meeting. Rooms are available at conference-rate at the Wyndham Garden
Boca Raton, http://www.wyndham.com/hotels/FLLBR/main.wnt
There are many other hotel options available in the area.
James Revell Carr, Vice-President/Program Chair
Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter (SEMSEC)
Assistant Professor, School of Music
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402
December 8, 2009 at 6:06 pm · Filed under Sociology & Anthropology
Here’s the scoop, directly from the American Anthropological Association.
December 2, 2009 at 2:33 pm · Filed under Sociology & Anthropology
“Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade.” Full story in the New York Times.
November 30, 2009 at 1:10 pm · Filed under Music, Sociology & Anthropology, Women's & Gender Studies
GAMMA-UT
Call for Papers
“Music and War”
10th Annual Conference
The University of Texas at Austin
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
GAMMA-UT, the Graduate Association of Music and Musicians at UT,
announces its tenth annual conference, “Music and War,” to be held on
Saturday, March 27th, 2010 at The University of Texas at Austin.
Graduate students from the areas of music theory, composition,
musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance will meet to share their
research and composers will present their works in a concert to be
held that evening.
This year’s keynote speaker is Suzanne Cusick. Dr. Cusick is an
associate professor of music at New York University. Her publications
include the 2009 book, Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court
(University of Chicago Press) as well as articles on music of
seventeenth-century Italy, feminist approaches to music history and
criticism, queer studies in music, and music as torture.
Call for Papers
GAMMA-UT is soliciting student papers in the areas of music theory,
musicology, and ethnomusicology. Papers may deal with any aspect of
music research and analysis, particularly those topics that relate to
the theme of “Music and War.” Prospective presenters should submit an
abstract of 250 words or less to gamma-ut@austin.utexas.edu by Monday,
February 1st, 2010. Please include your name, email address, mailing
address, institutional affiliation and student status. Papers are to
be approximately twenty minutes in length and will be followed by a
ten-minute question session. Applicants will be notified of the
program committee’s decision via e-mail by Sunday, February 14th,
2010.
Questions can be directed to the conference chair Jane Mathieu via email:
gamma-ut@austin.utexas.edu.
November 2, 2009 at 5:26 pm · Filed under Sociology & Anthropology, Women's & Gender Studies
Imponderabilia is happy to announce its second call for papers!
Imponderabilia is a student anthropology journal, concerned with anthropology in the widest sense of the term – the study of humans, their lives, beliefs and practices both past and present. We welcome submissions contemplating human experience from students of all disciplines. We are searching for articles that think outside of the box, that look over the rim of our anthropological glasses, and challenge the way in which we have been taught to write and engage with concepts.
We wish to provide space for your anthropological voice, be it in the form of articles, images, photos, illustrations, diagrams; we also welcome book, film or exhibition reviews as well as news snippets, conversations and interviews etc.
Guidelines for submitting manuscripts to Imponderabilia for review
Manuscripts submitted to Imponderabilia should not be under simultaneous consideration by any other journal, nor have been published elsewhere. Priority is given to undergraduate submissions. Imponderabilia prefers not to publish university coursework essays.
Peer review and editing process
Once your submission is received it is verified against submission requirements. Your identity and contact details are then removed and the paper is matched to two appropriate peer reviewers and sent for review. The publication decision is based on the peer reviewers’ reports. Once provisionally accepted for publication, articles may still be returned to the author for approval and implementation of editorial suggestions and criticisms. On final acceptance, articles are passed to the coordinating editors of the issue in which they will appear, who are responsible for all further correspondence with the author.
Language
Contributors are requested to submit in English. However the editors recognise that some authors may not have English as a native language, and will from time to time help proofread and correct minor grammar and spelling mistakes.The English equivalent to technical foreign words and phrases should always be included. We would prefer authors to avoid using sexist turns of phrase (e.g. the anthropologist and his field data).
Word Count
Your manuscript should follow the following recommendations for word count.
Long Article: 8200 – 12000 characters with spaces
Short Article: 4200 – 7200 characters with spaces
Short submission: 800 – 3300 characters with spaces
Figures and illustrations
Authors can send in illustrations, even for a short submission we welcome logos and images. Figures should be embedded in your text. Number figures in the order in which they appear in the text. Each figure should have a caption that articulates its relevance. Illustrations should be supplied as TIF or JPEG files – in high resolution.
Required Information
The article title page should include the full name(s) of the authors, personal affiliation with their university, (if they are students) and the complete email address of the author to whom correspondence should be sent. Imponderabilia requires authors, who submit articles also to submit a short biography, (maximum 700 characters), a bibliography, an introduction (200-800) and a title. Short submissions do not require a bibliography, a biography or an introduction.
Formatting
Imponderabilia follows The Chicago Manual of Style (14th ed., University of Chicago Press, 1993) for most matters of style. We follow the Oxford English Dictionary for spelling.
References
References appearing in the bibliography must be cited in text, and vice versa, using a concise author-date system, with an in-text citation, followed by a reference-list entry. See the Chicago Citation Guide for more information. http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Permissions
Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of citations, quotations, diagrams, tables and maps.
Enriched Content
Supplemental content is important for Imponderabilia. Visual and audio material is welcome and encouraged, for example links to a YouTube video, or a relevant website. Please reference in your manuscript where this material would be relevant, encouraging readers to move beyond the manuscript.
Deadline
The deadline for submissions is the 1st December 2009, no submissions will be considered for the second issue of Imponderabilia after this deadline.
Please send articles to journal.imponderabilia@gmail.com
If you have any difficulties in submitting items to Imponderabilia please email our editorial team.
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Imponderabilia
The International Student Journal
Cambridge University
http://imponderabilia.socanth.cam.ac.uk
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