Musicology Matters Today
2024 Annual meeting of the NZ Musicological Society
Saturday 7th to Monday 9th December, 2024
New Zealand School of Music | Te Kōkī
Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka
Registrations for the Wellington conference are now open. Please register here.
Keynote address: Emeritus Professor Peter Walls
Public concert opportunity: Orchestra Wellington, "A Modern Hero"
The past few years have been challenging for musicology in New Zealand and around the world. This conference aims to affirm the importance of musicology and establish credible pathways for its future.
Questions related to the conference theme might include:
- How is musicology in Aotearoa promoting knowledge and rewards for performers, composers, and listeners?
- How is musicology building its relevance to other musical and broader disciplines and practices? How can these relationships be deepened?
- How can tertiary music programmes articulate their worth in non-financial terms?
- What challenges does musicology face in an increasingly digital and online world, especially given the social and physical foundations of music and its performance?
- What new pedagogical and research approaches might widen musicology's appeal and contribution?
- How is musicology moving forward in its research involving place, race and gender?
- How might musicology's engagement with the past be reconceptualised in forward-looking terms?
All music research is welcome, with a suggested coda of commentary or points of metacognition allied with any of the conference questions. We also welcome abstracts from disciplines outside of music where the paper has a music focus and relevance to the conference theme.
Conference presentations may take the following forms:
- Formal conference papers (20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion)
- Interactive workshops (30 minutes)
- Lecture recitals and demonstrations (20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion)
- Panel sessions (30 minutes per participant. May be proposed by applicants or academic committee.)
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent in PDF format to conference point of contact, Hamish Robb: hamish.robb@vuw.ac.nz (deadline: 26th May, 2024)
Details for the student paper competition will be announced shortly.
The academic committee consists of:
Hamish Robb (Victoria University of Wellington), Chair
Peter Adams (University of Otago)
Allan Badley (University of Auckland)
Nick Braae (Waikato Institute of Technology)
Gregory Camp (University of Auckland)
Sunhee Koo (University of Auckland)
Nancy November (University of Auckland)
Polly Sussex (Independent Scholar, Auckland)
Francis Yapp (University of Canterbury)