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Composition in Africa and the Diaspora


An International Symposium and Festival featuring Composers Sessions, Scholarly Sessions and Live Concerts 
1-4 August 2003
Churchill College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0DS, England, UK

For further details, please contact:

Professor Akin Euba, 
Department of Music, 
University of Pittsburgh, 
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

Email: aeuba+@pitt.edu 
Tel: ++ 412-624-4199

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Centre for Intercultural Music Arts (CIMA)


8^th Biennial International Symposium and Festival (Conference) on 
'Intercultural Music Arts and Education'
Monday 29^th - Wednesday 31^st March 2004
Jeffrey Hall, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London, UK

Composers’ and Scholarly Sessions, Recitals and a Teachers’ Day

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Co-organised and hosted by the Department of Music, School of Arts & Humanities, University of London Institute of Education, Music Research Institute (MRI), California & Music Department, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Conference Theme and Sub-themes

Theme: Intercultural Music Arts and Education

Sub-themes

1.  Artistic Creativity and Interculturalism Music Arts
     (a) intercultural and interartistic dimensions;
     (b) pedagogical applications;
     (c) comparisons across and between groups, communities, sub-cultures, etc.

2. Interculturalism, the Arts and Education
     (a) integration in the arts;
     (b) music in the teaching of languages;
     (c) conceptual issues and cultural transposition of musical arts.

3. Intercultural Arts, Education and Human Rights
     (a) the arts and social, educational, economic and technological empowerment
     (b) intercultural music and education as agents for human understanding and peace.

Objectives

1. To generate information about composers and performers of intercultural music and their activities
2. To provide a forum for discussion among composers, scholars, performers, educators, critics, publishers, promoters and others involved in intercultural idioms of music
3. To facilitate the processes of development, study and understanding of new intercultural idioms of music 

Format

The event will include:

1. Composers’ Sessions, where individual composers discuss their work using recorded and/or live examples

2. Scholarly Sessions, consisting of papers on topics related to the theme of the event, such as:
     (i) history 
     (ii) style 
     (iii) performance 
     (iv) reception 
     (v) education 
     (vi) media transmission 
     (vii) scholarship

3. Teachers’ Day

4. Live concerts.

Funds available to the organisers are very limited and, therefore, all participants are expected to provide their own funds in respect of local and international travel and board and lodging.

Relevant information on accommodation will be communicated to you as soon as we receive your application form.

Individuals who wish to submit a paper should send the following with their completed application form no later than 1 September 2003:

a) the title of the paper indicating related topic reference number
b) an abstract of approximately 300 words.

Registration Fees

All of the following rates include CIMA membership for two years:

£100 sterling – institutional (one representative)
£90 sterling – individual for the whole conference
£40 sterling – daily individual rate for 29^th and 31^st March
£45 sterling – individual rate from performers for the whole conference

Please send payment by cheque drawn in British pounds (sterling) to Ms. Jilly Dolphin, Department of Music, School of Arts & Humanities, University of London Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, United Kingdom. Tel: ++44 (0)207 612 6740; fax: ++44 (0)207 612 6741; Email: j.dolphin@ioe.ac.uk . Please specify “8th CIMA Conference”, your registration category and make cheque payable to “Centre for Intercultural Music Arts”. Indicate whether you will be paying by cash at the time of registration at the appropriate place on the application form.

Please send completed application form with relevant information to: 

Prof. Robert M. Kwami, Department of Music, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa. Fax: ++27 (0)12 420 2248. Email: robert.kwami@postino.up.ac.za

Application for Participation in the 8^th Biennial International Symposium and Festival: 29^th – 31^st March 2004

Surname: _____________________________ First Name:____________________________

Institution: __________________________________________________________________ 

Address: ___________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

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Please indicate registration category: 

Institutional ____; Performer____; Individual____  Day(s): 1 / 2 / 3 [delete two.]

Telephone: ______________________________Fax: _______________________________ 

Email: _____________________________________________________________________

Please indicate whether you will be paying by cash at the time of registration:

Yes / No (delete one)

I am interested in attending and would like to participate in: (tick as appropriate or leave blank if participating as a listener)

____ Composers’ Sessions; ____ Scholarly Sessions; ____ Recitals (Live Concerts)

Send this form to:

Prof. Robert M. Kwami, Department of Music, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa. Fax: ++27 (0)12 420 2248. Email: robert.kwami@postino.up.ac.za