PUBLIC MUSICOLOGY International Symposium

The Kevin Barry Recital Room
National Concert Hall, Dublin
26 April 2017
Organized by the Society for Musicology in Ireland
In association with the Society for Music Analysis


This international one-day symposium on Public Musicology, organized by the Society for Musicology in Ireland, is in accordance with the aims of that society: to nurture and highlight the role of music in education and broader society on a national and international platform. The aim of this symposium is to ask how musicology relates to the ‘public voice’, the voice of culture at large. Our keynote speaker is Professor Christopher H. Gibbs, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music at Bard College, Co-Artistic Director of the Bard Music Festival, and Executive Editor of The Musical Quarterly.

Our eleven guest speakers will explore a diverse range of themes: careers in and beyond musicology, community-based projects, curating concerts and issues of programming, musicology in journalism, musicology and civic engagement, musicological entrepreneurship, public musicology in Ireland, public musicology projects, and musicology and the media. This symposium aims to bring together the published scholar but also the journalist, the writer of programme notes, the teacher, the radio broadcaster and any others in a position to affect the wider discourse on music. The primary objective of the symposium is to raise awareness of how music scholars, educators, music journalists and industry professionals engage with the public at large. In this context, musicology will demonstrate its active social character and hopefully encourage a wider discourse surrounding music.

GUEST SPEAKERS
Professor Christopher Gibbs; Dr Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Professor Harry White; Professor Julian Horton; Dr Anne Hyland; Dr Stephen Graham; Dr J. Griffith Rollefson; Dr Aidan Thomson; Dr Alexandra Buckle; Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile and Dr Melanie Marshall.

TICKETS
Tickets will be available in early February. Please see our website for further details.

COMMITTEE
Symposium Chair: Dr Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Symposium Coordinator: Dr Barbara Strahan

Contact: For further details regarding the symposium, please contact the symposium coordinator: Barbara.M.Strahan@nuim.ie

Symposium Website: www.publicmusicologydublin.org
SMI Website: http://www.musicologyireland.com/?q=node/328
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/publicmusicologydublin/

Funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations scheme.