Music and Philosophy 2014

June 27, 2014 - June 28, 2014
Department of Music and Department of Philosophy, King's College London

London
United Kingdom

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  • British Society of Aesthetics
  • Music and Philosophy Study Group of the American Musicological Society

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4th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group in collaboration with the Music and Philosophy Study Group of the American Musicological Society

Department of Music and Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, Fridayand Saturday, 27-28 June 2014

Generously supported by King’s College London and the British Society of Aesthetics.

Keynote speakers include:

• Professor Carolyn Abbate (Harvard University)
• Professor Philip Kitcher (Columbia University)
• Professor Dmitri Tymoczko (Princeton University)

Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to):

• Intersections and tensions between different approaches to music studies (historical musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology) 

and to philosophy (continental, analytic) • Sound and affect
• Differing musics
• Music, rhythm, and time
• Conceptual composing
• Performance, authenticity, and interpretation
• Musical meaning and language
• Music and ethics
• Music and ontology
• Empirical approaches to music
• Collaboration and the poetics of musical decision making
• Digital media and new forms of musical literacy
• Philosophy and sound recording
• Theories of music and mass culture in the twenty-first century
• Philosophy, music, and the future of the culture wars
• Music, transcendence, and spirituality
• Wagnerism in twenty-first century culture
• Film sound, film music, and philosophy
• The philosophical implications of corpus studies, quantitative methods, and geometric modeling  

Reasonably priced university accommodation will be available.  

Any questions, please e-mail [email protected]

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