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November 17, 2023April 8, 2024Colloquium, MDG35

MDG 35 Colloquium Lodging

MDG 35: The 35th MayDay Group Colloquium “Theory and Philosophy” will be held June 9–12, 2024, and it will be hosted by the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, in collaboration with the School of Music, at the University of Victoria in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Come join the fun! Proposals are due by January 7, 2024.

University of Victoria Visitor Accommodation dormitories

The organizing committee has reserved a limited number of rooms for the nights of June 8-11 at the University of Victoria visitor accommodation on campus and at the Day’s Inn Victoria on the Harbour, located in downtown Victoria about 7 kilometres (about 4.5 miles) from the university.

UVic accommodation is $63 (plus 16% tax) CDN per night for a single room with shared bathroom, all linens, and basic WIFI. Rooms must be booked no later than May 5. Please contact visitoraccommodation@uvic.ca to reserve your room, mentioning the MayDay Group Colloquium 35 in your query.
https://www.uvic.ca/residence/visitors/dormitory/index.php

Day’s Inn on the Harbour

Days Inn Victoria on the Harbour accommodation is $149 (plus 16% tax) CDN per night for a standard queen room. Rooms must be booked no later than May 5. Please contact the Days Inn at 250-386-3451 directly to reserve your room, mentioning the MayDay Group Colloquium 35 in your query.
Located downtown in the scenic Inner Harbour 8 km from UVi
https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/en-ca/days-inn/victoria-british-columbia/days-inn-victoria-on-the-harbour/overview?CID=LC:iqv0j1dklijly45:06289

A reminder about accommodation –

1) UVic accommodation is $63 (plus 16% tax) CDN per night for a single room with shared bathroom, all linens, and basic wifi. Rooms must be booked no later than May 5. Please contact visitoraccommodation@uvic.ca to reserve your room, mentioning the MayDay Group Colloquium 35 in your query.

2) Days Inn Victoria on the Harbour accommodation is $149 (plus 16% tax) CDN per night for a standard queen room. Rooms must be booked no later than May 5. Please contact the Days Inn at 250-386-3451 directly to reserve your room, mentioning the MayDay Group Colloquium 35 in your query.

November 17, 2023Colloquium, MDG35

MDG 35 Colloquium Call for Proposals

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The MayDay Group invites scholars, music makers, educators, and innovators from around the globe to submit proposals to this year’s colloquium centered on the following action ideal:

Theory and Philosophy

We actively engage with and generate theory and philosophy to understand the relationship(s) between musical actions and their contextual meanings and values.

We account for the fullest range of meanings and modes of thinking inherent in individual and collective musical actions. This requires asking new questions and developing robust toolkits for understanding and theorizing how we position and are positioned as part of larger groups and practices operating within multiple layers of social, cultural, spiritual, geographical, historical, and political contexts. In so doing, we work to avoid the trappings of narrative frameworks that may oppress or misrepresent the contexts in which we seek greater theoretical and philosophical understandings. We embrace pluralism in knowledge construction (e.g., Indigenous, queer, feminist) which promotes interpretations of musical actions from multiple worldviews and creates more equitable representation.

What are the problematics of using Western theories and philosophies to understand the relationship between non-Western musical actions and their contextual meanings and values?

What are the possibilities and limitations of embracing pluralism in knowledge construction in music education through multicultural, intercultural, cross-cultural, transcultural, and syncretic lenses?

How do we avoid theoretical and philosophical extractivism when interpreting musical actions from worldviews that are not our own to create more equitable representation?

What are new questions and toolkits for understanding and theorizing the positionality of music educators and education inherent in pluralist contexts?

Is there a particular non-Western philosophical lens that might transcend the issues we are dealing with in music education? How might it inform what we do in music education?

Utilitarian, Aesthetic, and praxialist music education philosophies have shaped and guided music education practices in many countries. What might be the next historical turn in music education philosophy?

COLLOQUIUM FORMAT

Presentations—better understood at MayDay Colloquia as provocations—are designed to stimulate discussion and debate. Therefore, each presenter will be allocated 45 minutes, to include no more than 25 minutes for the presentation and no fewer than 20 minutes for discussion. Proposals that go outside the conventional scope of a provocation are encouraged. Musical engagements will also be considered. Projectors, speakers, and screens will be available, but it is completely acceptable to use no supporting technology. Presenters must register and are expected to attend the colloquium. Extenuating circumstances to in-person presentations will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the colloquium coordinator if accommodations are needed due to political or health-related issues.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION PROCESS

Please submit both: a proposal of no more than 800 words (references not included in word count) and an abstract of no more than 100 words as email attachments. Incomplete submissions will not be considered. State your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and other contact information in the body of the email only. There should be no identifiers on proposals or abstracts. Submit by January 7, 2024 to: MayDayGroup35@gmail.com

Proposals will be reviewed anonymously by committee and evaluated according to the following criteria: clarity of ideas, contribution to/interest for the profession, relevance and contribution to theory, and connection to the action ideal.

Notification will occur by email no later than January 27, 2024. Registration will open April 1, 2024. If accepted, the primary presenter and any co-presenters must register for the conference no later than May 1, 2024, or forfeit their acceptance.

Registration information will be posted on the MDG 35 Colloquium website at https://bit.ly/MDG35.

Accepted abstracts will be posted to the Colloquium website by May 1, 2024 and cannot be changed after that date.

QUESTIONS? Please contact us at: MayDayGroup35@gmail.com

November 17, 2023June 4, 2024Colloquium, MDG34, MGD35

MDG Colloqium 35

MAYDAY GROUP COLLOQUIUM 35:
Theory and Philosophy

We actively engage with and generate theory and philosophy to understand the relationship(s) between musical actions and their contextual meanings and values.

Department of Curriculum & Instruction,
School of Music,
University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

9 – 12 June 2024

Click for more information:

Call for Proposals

Registration

Travel

Lodging

Sessions and Provocateurs

Schedule

For a simplified Word version of the schedule, see: Schedule-Final

Map of Food Services

November 15, 2023Newsfeed, Newsletter

Newsletter (November 2, 2023)

We are excited to announce another issue of ACT! We also give our thanks to Deb Bradley & Scott Goble, outgoing ACT editors, for their dedication and service.

We have another month filled with job postings – be sure to download the entire email to view all postings.

Please also note the growing number of November/early December calls for participation, including QMUE, APME, and the Symposium on Research in Choral Singing.

Do you have a conference, call, or position you would like shared through the Mayday Newsletter? If so, please send all pertinent information to kbylica@bu.edu.

Special Announcements:

New issue of Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education published
Call for Papers – Special issue of ACT: Music Education in the Age of Capitalist Realism – deadline January 1, 2024

Conferences, Workshops, & Calls

Call for Editorial Board Nominations: Contributions to Music Education – deadline December 22
Call for Editorial & Advisory Board Nominations: International Journal of Community Music – deadline November 28
QMUE 5 – Call for Proposals – deadline December 5
APME Conference – Call for Proposals – deadline December 1
4th Symposium on Research in Choral Singing – Call for Proposals – deadline November 17th

Position Vacancies

Associate Professor/Chair of Music Education – Johns Hopkins University – deadline December 1
Assistant Professor of Music Education – Washington State University – deadline November 27
Assistant Professor of Music Education (Instrumental Music Education Specialist) – University of Utah – deadline November 13
Assistant/Associate Professor of String Music Teaching and Learning – Arizona State University – deadline November 11
Assistant Professor of Music Education – University of Illinois Chicago – deadline December 4
Open Rank Professor of Music Education – University of New Mexico – deadline November 10
Assistant Professor of Music Education, African American Music Emphasis – University of Washington – deadline November 15
Assistant Professor of Music Education, Band – Bowling Green State University – deadline November 17
Assistant Professor of Choral Music Education – Oklahoma State University – deadline November 15
Assistant Professor of Music Education, Elementary/General – UNC Greensboro – deadline November 10
Assistant Professor of Music Education/Director of the Online MM Program – Bowling Green State University – deadline December 8

Read the full newsletter here: https://conta.cc/3Qp0r68

October 10, 2023Newsfeed, Newsletter

Newsletter (October 10, 2024)

We are thrilled to announce the publication of a new issue of ACT. Many congratulations to the authors and the ACT team! For more information and to read these articles, be sure to scroll down.

This month’s newsletter is filled with calls for participation and postings, many of which have deadlines in the next month. Please note, in particular, the many job postings included in this edition.

Special Announcements:

New issue of ACT published
Call for Papers – Special issue of ACT: Music Education in the Age of Capitalist Realism – deadline January 1, 2024

Conferences, Workshops, & Calls

Council for Research in Music Education Outstanding Dissertation Award – Call for nominations – deadline November 1
ECMME Biennial Conference – Call for Proposals – deadline October 22
The Oxford Handbook on Music and Aging – Call for Proposals – deadline November 1
QMUE 5 – Call for Proposals – deadline December 5
ISME World Conference – Call for Proposals – deadline extended to October 13
ISME World Conference – Call for Pre-Conference Proposals – deadline November 1
APME Conference – Call for Proposals – deadline December 1
4th Symposium on Research in Choral Singing – Call for Proposals – deadline November 17th

Position Vacancies

Open rank Professor of Music Education – University of Illinois – deadline October 16
Assistant/Associate Professor of Music Education – Montclair State University
Assistant Professor of Music Education – San Diego State University
Assistant Professor of General Music Education – The University of Memphis – deadline November 3
Assistant Professor of Music Education, Elementary Specialist – Augustana College – deadline October 27
Assistant Professor of Music Education – University of Indianapolis – deadline October 31
Assistant Professor of Music Education (multiple) – Louisiana State University – deadline November 1
Assistant/Association Professor of Music Education (Strings) – University of North Texas
Assistant Professor of Music Education (Choral) – Michigan State University – deadline October 23

Read the full newsletter here: https://conta.cc/3RQupm4

September 12, 2023Newsfeed

New TOPICS Articles (September 12, 2023)

The MayDay Group journal TOPICS (Themes, Opinion, Policy, Innovation, Curriculum, and Strategies for Music Education Praxis) is pleased to announce publication of two new articles about teaching music education in higher education settings.

TOPICS is a peer-reviewed journal of the MayDay Group, intended to fill the gap between music education scholarship and practice. In particular, it focuses on the “practice” (practical, praxial, pragmatic) side of the “theory into practice” and “practice into theory” problematic by publishing papers, articles, documents, and other texts that that make a contribution to praxis and praxial theory. Manuscript submissions now being accepted at the link.

Vernacular Music and Theories of Change: Transformation on Intersecting Paths

Nathan B. Kruse

Vernacular music-making continues to be a prominent topic in music education discourse. However, the degree to which school music teachers choose to implement vernacular music practices is unclear, as are the factors that inspire change in teaching practice. This four- part article highlights the complexities surrounding curricular innovation and implementation, as well as the interplay between theory and praxis in music teaching and learning. Specifically, this inquiry features the precepts of three change theories and how their tenets can be applied to vernacular teaching practices in school music settings. A college-level vernacular music class is presented as one model for preparing preservice music teachers to meet the needs of 21st-century students. Considering the ways in which music teachers apply vernacular practices to school settings could help to illuminate the intersecting paths of theory and practice in an evolving music education discourse.

The Courage to Teach Free Improvisation In and Through a Graduate Music Education Class

Gareth Dylan Smith

In this article I describe my affinity for improvisation in music and life, and for free improvisation in particular as a music making practice. In this self-reflective position paper, I use these practices to help locate and define an authentic sense of self as a music education professor. This paper gives an account of my introduction of free improvisation sessions into a weekly, in-person graduate class in psychology and sociology related to music education. Drawing on relevant literature and a university-wide learning initiative, I present my reflections and those of my students on the experience of doing free improvisation over the duration of one semester, that led to enjoyment, growth, and flourishing. In closing, I consider the potential for doing more free improvisation in music and music education classes.