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  Subject: [MLA-L] Call for Papers -- Your Brain Needs Music
  Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:45:33 -0600
  From: Laurie Sampsel <laurie.sampsel@colorado.edu>
  To: mla-l@iulist.indiana.edu

Call for papers: The 7th Susan Porter Symposium at Colorado's
American Music Research Center

Your Brain Needs Music!

Sound healing practices require healing sounds.  In their 2011 book,
"Healing at the Speed of Sound," Don Campbell and Alex Doman tell us
in clear terms, backed up with copious scientific evidence, what most
engaged listeners and professional musicians have understood for
centuries -- namely that the soundscapes around us affect all humans
deeply and fundamentally, physically and emotionally for good and ill,
moment to moment, day to day, year to year.

The title and theme of this 7th Triennial Susan Porter Symposium --
now become the Porter-Campbell Symposium in honor of the late Don
Campbell's work -- is "Your Brain Needs Music!"  With this announcement
we invite the submission of paper proposals, panel discussion topics,
poster displays, and participatory musical activities that will appeal
to a general audience for a three-day gathering at University of
Colorado Boulder, College of Music, October 4 - 6, 2013.

Contributions are sought from a broad range of disciplines and
individuals: musicologists, educators, audiologists, music therapists,
sound healers, neurologists, acousticians, and others whose personal or
professional concerns have to do music, how the brain processes sound,
or how the nature of sonic environments impacts the listening experience.
Since we envision a seminar attractive to the wider public, priority
will be given to presenters whose abstracts show a clear ability to
speak compellingly to the largest possible non-academic audience about
these provocative topics.

The AMRC also views this symposium as an opportunity for networking
among specialists in different but overlapping fields.  Ad hoc lunch
groups and break-out sessions will be arranged to facilitate dialog
among both presenters and registered auditors.  A variety of musical
programs will be woven into the overall schedule.

All proposals and abstracts must be limited to 750 words and submitted
either in hard copy or e-mail attachment in two versions, one "blind"
and the other with name and contact information of the principal
presenter at the bottom of the page.  Any audio-visual needs should
also be noted.  Individual paper presentations will be strictly limited
to 30 minutes, and panels to 90 minutes (regardless of the number of
presenters).  The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 15,
2012.

Kindly direct all questions and submissions to:

Eric Hansen, Conference Coordinator
University of Colorado Boulder
College of Music, 301 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Attn: Porter-Campbell Symposium
eric.a.hansen@colorado.edu
tel.: 1-303-735-3645

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