Dear Museum-L:

Please find below a call for papers for a conference on public musicology in Princeton, NJ next January.  The deadline is September 1.

To further research on how music scholars, performers, educators, journalists and industry professionals can engage the public, Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey will host a three-day conference on public musicology from January 30 to February 1, 2015.  We welcome individual paper, lecture-recital, panel, workshop and innovative-format proposals on any aspect of public musicology.  These include but are not limited to the following areas:

-- Innovative Programming

-- The History of Public Musicology

-- Music and Museums

-- Musical Archives and the Public

-- Music, Collective Memory, and Historical Interpretation

-- The Material Culture of Music

-- Musical Tourism

-- The Relationship Between Academic Musicology and Public Musicology

-- Music and Historical Preservation

-- Public Musicology vs. Public History and Public Science

Please find submission details at http://publicmusicology.wordpress.com/.

Best Wishes,

Eric Hung

Associate Professor of Music History

Westminster Choir College of Rider University