Center for Iberian and Latin Music

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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The Otto Mayer-Serra Award for Music Research

The University of California Riverside and the Center for Iberian and Latin-American Music (CILAM) call for submissions for the Otto Mayer-Serra Award, given annually for the best unpublished article on Latin American music.

Award
A single, undivided award of 1,500 USD; the award-winning essay will be published in the Latin American Music Review.

Eligibility
All scholars are eligible to apply, regardless of age, nationality or place of residence.

Administration
The winner will be selected by a committee of outside reviewers, nominated by CILAM. The names of the committee members will be made public after a decision has been reached. The committee’s decision is final and may not be appealed. If no submission is deemed worthy the prize may not be awarded. The committee may disqualify any participant who does not meet the requirements established by this call.

Application process
A completed application will consist of the following:

Authors of articles to be considered for the award should submit one complete copy in word doc or pdf format as an attachment to an email addressed to Leonora Saavedra (leonora.saavedra@ucr.edu). Articles should not exceed 40 pages, inclusive of references, illustrations, and musical examples. All material should be double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman Font, with margins of at least one inch.

To allow for the anonymous review of submissions, the author’s name should appear only in the cover letter, which should also contain the full title of the submission and all relevant contact information. Authors should avoid identifying themselves in the manuscript itself (title page, header, notes) or in the file information.

The article must be unpublished and written in Spanish or Portuguese and will be published correspondingly in either language.
Application deadline: June 1, 2012. The winner of the prize will be notified in September 2012.

After being notified, the winning author will submit publication-quality musical examples and illustrations in TIFF (300dpi) and the text in Word format. The author will be responsible for arranging the corresponding permits for publication.

The Otto Mayer-Serra Prize for Music Research was established in 2008 by Instrumenta Oaxaca, Gobierno del Estado de Oaxaca, Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas, Coordinación de Difusión Cultural UNAM, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and Pauta.

SYMPOSIUM:
Spanish musics and their [Western] Others: Negotiating identity and exoticism

Friday 7 – Saturday 8 December 2012
The University of Melbourne, Australia

Western Music and entertainment have drawn on features of Spanish music and dance since at least the Napoleonic wars. In turn, constructions of musical exoticism based on Hispanic tropes have informed different manifestations of Spanish musical nationalism, as well as regional and popular musics of Spain. These “Spanish” musical identities have evolved and been reconfigured according to the dictates of competing cultural, political and social factors, yet Spain’s unique position and its enactment of cultural identity cannot easily be reconciled within current narratives of musical nationalism and exoticism.

Papers are invited that examine Spanish musical identity, engage with Western evocations of Spanish music, or explore such repertories in relation to constructions of nationalism and exoticism since 1800.
Papers may address repertories or issues relating to one of the following areas (or others related to the conference theme):

Western art music
Dance and theatrical spectacle
National and regional musics
Popular musics
Flamenco
Music and film

Please submit an abstract of not more than 250 words, with a brief biographical note,
to Michael Christoforidis, by emailing mchri@unimelb.edu.au
by Monday 30 April 2012

Paper-givers will be notified by mid-May, but if you need earlier notification, please indicate this in your submission.

There will be a publication of refereed proceedings.
Accommodation (2 nights) will be provided for international presenters.

Encuentros/Encounters 2012: Los Romero: Royal Family of the Guitar

February 22, 2012

Wednesday at Noon: Pepe Romero and the Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo.
Musicology Prof. Walter A. Clark will introduce a classic film of Pepe playing Rodrigo's celebrated Aranjuez concerto, with Sir Neville Mariner conducting the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. The video features not only the performers but also scenes of the Aranjuez palace and grounds, with the ninety-year-old composer and his wife, Victoria. This film is a deeply moving experience.

ARTS 157 at 12 noon. Free and open to students, staff, faculty. and the public
February 24, 2012

A lecture-demonstration featuring world-renowned guitar virtuoso Pepe Romero
and UCR musicology professor Walter Aaron Clark

7 p.m.: Walter Aaron Clark, "Los Romero: The Saga of an Andalusian Family of Guitarists"

8 p.m.: Pepe Romero performs works for classical and flamenco guitar

Free and open to the public.
Though admission is free, a ticket is required. Tickets are available at the box office on a first-come, first-served basis.
Performance Lab, ARTS 166
Parking: $5.00 in Lot 1 for the concert.

Center for Iberian and Latin American Music
The Center for Iberian and Latin American Music (CILAM) was established at University of California, Riverside, in 2004 to foster research and performance in an interdisciplinary spirit, embracing the entire musical heritage of Iberia and Latin America. The Center's activities include maintaining an educational website, www.cilam.ucr.edu; an online scholarly journal, Diagonal; and annual Encuentros/Encounters, featuring concerts and a conference dealing with a particular aspect of Iberian or Latin American music.

Walter A. Clark, director Professor of Musicology University of California, Riverside ARTS 145 (951) 827-2114

Encuentros/Encounters 2012 is made possible by generous financial support from the MaryLu Clayton Rosenthal Endowment.

Pepe Romero

Born in Málaga, Spain, Pepe Romero is the second son of "The Royal Family of the Guitar," The Romeros. Renowned worldwide for his thrilling interpretations and flawless technique, he is constantly in demand for his solo recitals and performances with orchestra. His contributions to the field of classical guitar have inspired a number of distinguished composers to write works specifically for him, including Joaquín Rodrigo and Federico Moreno Torroba. His discography presently contains more than fifty recordings and includes over twenty concertos with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner and Iona Brown. In recognition of his accomplishments, he was knighted by King Juan Carlos I of Spain in 2000. He is on the faculty of the University of Southern California.

Walter A. Clark

Walter Aaron Clark received an M.A. in classical guitar at UCSD, where he was a student of Pepe Romero. He subsequently earned a Ph.D. in musicology from UCLA. He is the author of books on Spanish composers Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, and Federico Moreno Torroba, all published by Oxford University Press. He is also the editor or co-editor of several books on Spanish and Latin American music, including the forthcoming Norton textbook Musics of Latin America, and he edits the Oxford series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music. He is currently writing a book about the Romero family.

Background Music: The habanera "La paloma" (The dove) by Sebastián Yradier (1809-65), arranged for guitar by Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909), performed by Pepe Romero on his album Corazón Español (Hollywood Records, 2005).