About
The Conference:
The “Music and Politics” graduate conference is being sponsored in large measure
by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) at UCSB and
is being organized by graduate students from a number of different UCSB departments.
The conference will take place on Saturday and Sunday, April 5 and 6, 2008,
on the UCSB campus and feature student papers and a distinguished keynote
speaker (to be announced soon). Conference papers will explore the convergence
of music and politics from a variety of interdisciplinary approaches. A selection
of papers from the conference will be published in the August 2008 issue of
Music & Politics. All events are open to the public.
CISM:
The Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) is an association
of faculty and students at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
that promotes the study of music across academic disciplines. CISM begins
with the position that music is an important and powerful cultural practice
in which all people participate on some level. By sponsoring diverse projects
that engage multiple disciplines, CISM works to expand the boundaries of traditional
music research by creating an environment for high-level study and discussion
of music that is not restricted to specialists.
UCSB:
University of California, Santa Barbara is located on nearly a thousand acres
of land on the California coast about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
Set on a peninsula, the campus has two ocean beaches on the its south side
while the Santa Ynez Mountains, part of the California Coastal Range, provide
a dramatic backdrop to the north.
UCSB is one of only 62 institutions that has membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities. The campus is home to about 20,000 students (including about 2,900 at the graduate level) as well as 1,084 faculty members. UCSB's faculty currently includes five Nobel Prize winners and many elected members or fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (25), the National Academy of Sciences (27), the National Academy of Engineering (27), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (38).
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UCSB is one of only 62 institutions that has membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities. The campus is home to about 20,000 students (including about 2,900 at the graduate level) as well as 1,084 faculty members. UCSB's faculty currently includes five Nobel Prize winners and many elected members or fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (25), the National Academy of Sciences (27), the National Academy of Engineering (27), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (38).
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Santa Barbara
Famous for its beautiful setting and consistently pleasant weather, Santa
Barbara is located on a narrow strip of land between the Pacific Ocean and
the Santa Ynez Mountains. Downtown is home to numerous shops, bars, and world
class restaurants, all featuring the city's trademark red-tiled Spanish revival
architecture. Mission Santa Barbara—founded in 1786 and nicknamed "the queen
of the missions"—is one the 21 original California missions.
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