The Healing and Emotional Power of Music and Dance - Help-Md

CALL FOR PAPERS!

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Fostering Wellbeing in Times of Global Crisis

Possible Book Contributions to the Peter Lang Series on Music and Spirituality
(The Rev Professor June Boyce-Tillman, Series Editor)
Edited by Tawnya D. Smith

Scholars, researchers, musicians, theologians, clergy, music teachers, music and expressive arts therapists, and relevant stakeholders are invited to contribute full chapters or interludes (see description below) that explore the intersections of music education and spirituality, as well as one or more of the following areas of emphasis:

● Race, Class, Gender, and/or Sexuality
● COVID-19
● Climate and Environmental Degradation
● Decolonizing Pedagogies and Practices
● Compassion and Care
● Interfaith and Inter-Spiritual Peacebuilding
● Music and Spirituality and the Global Economy
● Developments in Music and Public Worship in a Global Crisis
● Building Musical and Spiritual Communities Online
● Teaching Music with Compassion in a Virtual World
● Singing, Spirituality, and Wellbeing in a Virtual World
● The Therapeutic use of Music Online

Accepted manuscripts will articulate a clear connection with the topic of music, spirituality, and wellbeing within the context of one or more global crises.

Full scholarly book chapter proposals of 4,000-5,000 words (including abstract, text, references, and endnotes) are welcome. Authors should situate the topic of the paper within the literature on music, spirituality, and wellbeing and the specific discipline or disciplines discussed.

Interludes related to practice and/or spiritual experience are also welcome. Interludes should be no more than 2,000 words (including abstract, text, references, and endnotes). Authors should situate the topic of the paper within the context of practice or experience and make clear the implications for professional and/or spiritual practice. All submissions must comply with the style guide or will be returned to the author for reformatting.

Please submit your manuscripts electronically to Tawnya Smith [email protected] by October 18, 2021.

https://logincms.westernsydney.edu.au/iac/events/upcoming_events/music_and_spirituality_symposium_2021

IAC | 2021 Music and Spirituality Symposium Music has been an intrinsic part of human spirituality for centuries. The spiritual efficacy of music is a well-acknowledged fact in social and scholarly discourse, from songs received through dreams in northeast Arnhem Land, to the highly ritualised repertories of Confucian worship (Marrett 2005; R...

Conference Schedule & Program It is not too late to register for the Music Spirituality and Wellbeing Conference: Fostering Wellbeing in Times of Global Crisis to be hosted virtually via Boston University on July 6th and 7th.

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The sound of Paleolithic music, perhaps

[includes very brief audio of a living musician who created a few notes using the shell]

Excerpt:
In 1931, researchers working in southern France unearthed a large seashell at the entrance to a cave. Unremarkable at first glance, it languished for decades in the collections of a nearby natural history museum.

Now, a team has reanalyzed the roughly foot-long conch shell using modern imaging technology. They concluded that the shell had been deliberately chipped and punctured to turn it into a musical instrument. It’s an extremely rare example of a “seashell horn” from the Paleolithic period, the team concluded. And it still works — a musician recently coaxed three notes from the 17,000-year-old shell...

Only in 2016 did researchers begin to analyze the shell anew. Artifacts like this conch help paint a picture of how cave dwellers lived, said Carole Fritz, an archaeologist at the University of Toulouse who has been studying the cave and its paintings for over 20 years. “It’s difficult to study cave art without cultural context.”

Dr. Fritz and her colleagues started by assembling a three-dimensional digital model of the conch. They immediately noticed that some parts of its shell looked peculiar. For starters, a portion of its outer lip had been chipped away. That left behind a smooth edge, quite unlike Charonia lampas, said Gilles Tosello, a prehistorian and visual artist also at the University of Toulouse. “Normally, they’re very irregular.”

The apex of the conch was also broken off, the team found. That’s the most robust part of the shell, and it’s unlikely that such a fracture would have occurred naturally. Indeed, further analysis showed that the shell had been struck repeatedly — and precisely — near its apex. The researchers also noted a brown residue, perhaps remnants of clay or beeswax, around the broken apex.

The mystery deepened when the team used CT scans and a tiny medical camera to examine the inside of the conch. They found a hole, roughly half an inch in diameter, that ran inward from the broken apex and pierced the shell’s interior structure...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/science/conch-shell-horn.htmlThe

Call for papers

ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM ON MUSIC, DANCE, HEALING AND EMOTION
20th MAY 2021
NOVA Universidade de Lisboa
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Hosted by
The Healing and Emotional power of Music and Dance (HELP-MD) project
Instituto de Etnomusicologia - Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (INET-MD)
Please note that, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the symposium will be kept online.

Can we explain the power of music and dance to prevent and treat illness? Many individuals around the world, from the shamans of the Indonesian jungle to the music therapists in New York, use music and dance to enhance well-being and to prevent and treat illness, but the complex elements behind this phenomenon are still largely unexplained.
On one side, cognitive scientists try to answer this question by investigating the impact of music on basic human faculties such as memory, emotions and physical abilities in people affected by different types of diseases (Alzheimer’s, autism, etc.). On the other, ethnomusicologists, who focus on the cultural diversity of musical expressions, may offer an important contribution to this emerging field by describing how the relation among music, dance, and health is conceived in other cultural contexts and performance settings.

The project “Healing and Emotional Power of Music and Dance (HELP-MD)” aims to develop an inter-cultural and inter-disciplinary comparison between musical healing practices, in order to determine the common elements among the various cultures. Moreover, the project’s objective is to create a bridge between social and health sciences, to move forward from the current state of the research and offer new and unique insights.
We are particularly interested in: a) analysing how in a given context music is used to cure, heal or prevent; b) working on an inter-cultural comparison, and c) integrating methods and hypotheses of the cognitive and the health sciences. The following questions are at the heart of the HELP-MD project:

• Can we find, in different musical and cultural contexts, similarities in the way musical activity, emotional behaviours, and healing practices are linked?
• How does musical practice relate with well-being, illness prevention and/or treatment?
• How do people engage with music and/or dance with the aim of changing their emotional and/or health condition?
• What type of symbolic associations are commonly linked to the emotional and healing power of music and dance?
• If music is widely associated with healing practices in many societies from around the world, could this be due to its potential to elicit and control emotions?
• How are bodily behaviours modified when people identify with a “sonic agent” (an intentional entity stably associated with a musical form)?

The Healing and Emotional power of Music and Dance project calls for papers and creative works expounding this phenomenon.

This symposium will take place online on the 20 May 2021.

THEMES
Under the theme of “music, healing and emotion”, academics, art practitioners, spiritual leaders and adherents are invited to submit original research abstracts addressing the following sub-themes:

๏ Indigenous reflections
๏ Intercultural and interdisciplinary connections
๏ Traditionalism and ritual
๏ Contemporary use of music and dance in healing practices
๏ The body in sound/musical healing therapies
๏ Music, emotion, and well-being

The Healing and Emotional power of Music and Dance is open to papers that do not directly address the sub-themes above, but draw on the general topic of music, dance, emotion and healing.

KEYNOTES:
Professor Emmanuel Bigand (University of Burgundy)
Professor Benjamin Koen (Hong Kong Baptist University)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We welcome proposals in the form of individual papers, and creative works as detailed
below:

Individual papers | 20 minutes with 10-minute question time
• provide your title, name, institution (if applicable) and paper name
• state your sub-theme(s) (if applicable)
• submit an abstract of 250 words

How to submit: Please submit your proposal to the organizing committee:
Dr Filippo Bonini Baraldi ([email protected])
and
Dr Giorgio Scalici ([email protected]).

IMPORTANT DATES:
31 Jan 2021 – Deadline for abstract submissions
21 February 2021 – Decision on accepted papers
8 March 2021 – Final programme
20 May 2021 – One Day Symposium

FEES
There will be no fee
The language of presentation is English.

PUBLICATION

We will get in contact with Bloomsbury, or another high-level editor, to publish an edited volume of the Symposium

CONTACT & FURTHER INFORMATION
For all enquiries, or to make suggestions and provide feedback, please contact the organizing committee.

For further details, please visit:
https://www.help-md.eu/symposium/

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ICMPC16-ESCOM11 Call for papers

28-31 July 2021



Virtual time-zone locations: Australia, Middle-East, West-Europe, Americas

Hubs of the conference: The University of Sheffield, UK, (main organising hub), Western Sydney University and Australian Music & Psychology Society, Australia, Baku Music Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan, Central University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, NIMHANS, Bengaluru, and International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bygdoszcz, Poland.



We are pleased to invite papers for the 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition jointly organised with the 11th triennial conference of ESCOM to be held 28- 31 July 2021 across multiple timezones for virtual participation.

The conference welcomes all papers whose primary purpose is the systematic investigation of musical behaviour and cognition. The theme of connectivity and diversity draws special attention to variations in cognition across individuals and contexts, whilst acknowledging the role of 'connectedness' whether between people, material and environment or sites of neurological processing. Papers specifically addressing the conference theme will be highlighted in the programme. There is no expectation that all papers address the theme.

Participation in the conference will be through virtual attendance. All presentations will be part of a global programme that integrates presentations from different timezones, facilitating discussion, networking and socialising across locations.

CfP dates:

7 Dec 2020 - Deadline for abstract submissions

February 2021 - Review outcomes

For details of the conference organisation and the guidelines for submissions, please go to the website: https://icmpc2021.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/home

If you have any queries about the conference, please contact the organisers at:

[email protected]

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ISARS 2021, Sarawak – Call for Papers

The International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS) and the Sarawak Museum Department invite you to attend the 3rd international conference of ISARS, which will be held at the new Sarawak Museum (about to re-open in a new building as the Borneo Cultures Museum) In Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, from August 25-28, 2021.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Religious Healing and Sacred Health Curing: Online Documentary Film Program and Debate (week 4). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. A virtual documentary film presentation and debate organized by the Network of the Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia of EASA in collaboration with the Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University. Introduction to the session by Dr. P. Khosronejad (Western Sydney...

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SOUND INSTRUMENTS AND SONIC CULTURES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
This interdisciplinary conference will take place on 15–16 December 2020 at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford.

Modernity has witnessed an accelerating proliferation of sound instruments—devices that allow humans to purposefully produce, capture, observe, manipulate, broadcast or otherwise interact with sound. Examples are numerous: sound instruments include all musical instruments, acoustic and electronic, as well as scientific, medical, and military instruments that operate sonically, from the tuning forks and resonators of 19th-century acousticians, to Geiger-Müller counters, Fessenden oscillators (sonar), and ultrasound scanners. Sound recording, playback, and listening devices are sound instruments—record, CD, and MP3 players, tape recorders, loudspeakers, headphones, etc.—as are studio and live sound technologies like mixing desks, compressors, reverb units, computers and software devices such as Autotune, and guitar effects pedals. Radio and television sets are sound instruments, as are terrestrial and mobile telephones, as are hearing aids. The list goes on.

The development of sound instruments has been paralleled by the development of sonic cultures—cultures of listening, cultures of creative production and consumption, cultures of scientific and medical practice, cultures of scholarship and heritage, cultures of designing, building, and testing sound instruments. Sonic cultures (to expand upon the perspective offered by musicologist Mark Katz in his book Capturing Sound) can develop in response to, or through the use and/or creation of, sound instruments. A sonic culture exists wherever a social group orients its activities around a particular set of practices that has to do with sound, listening/hearing (or non-hearing), and/or the use or creation of sound instruments. Examples are too numerous to list comprehensively, but Karin Bijsterveld has highlighted sonic cultures among scientists, engineers, and medical practitioners in her book Sonic Skills, and Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco documented sonic cultures of instrument making and use in their book Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer.

As part of the National Science and Media Museum’s recent incorporation of sound technologies as a key area of collecting and research, the purpose of this interdisciplinary conference is to critically explore relationships between sound instruments and sonic cultures. Concurrently, a conference to present the results of the museum’s AHRC-funded ‘Sonic Futures’ collaboration with the University of Nottingham will be happening and participants are welcome to also attend sessions at that event.

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The Conference at the End of the World: An Online Event
Call for papers
July 14 2020

This conference, organised by Alt-Ac UK, is intended to bring together scholars across the humanities and social sciences through an online medium. The global COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in many personal losses and universal upheaval. This has included significant challenges for the academic community, such as the cancellation of almost all events, workshops, and conferences in the forthcoming months.

The Conference at the End of the World is intended as an opportunity to present the papers originally intended for cancelled events. Conducted entirely online, this event will allow for a worldwide gathering of scholars which overcomes the challenges of social distancing and environmental impacts of international conferences. To accommodate the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, abstracts are welcome on any and all subjects within the domain of the humanities and social sciences.

Attendance is free for non-established scholars, with optional donations available to cover the arrangement costs of early career scholars. Salaried academics will be asked to donate £20.

Abstract deadline: May 25

Acknowledgement of acceptance: No later than June 1

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