Organized by the UCLA Practice-Based Experimental Epistemology Research (PEER) Lab

DATE: Friday, April 29-Saturday, April 30
TIME: Begins 9:00 AM (Friday, April 29)
LOCATION: Zoom (registration required)

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If music and sound are “thick events” that exceed our ability to grasp them fully (see Eidsheim 2015), what resources do we have to make (at least) partial sense of them? In a two-day symposium, we aim to spark a conversation exploring how metaphorical language works as one of these resources, examining how it shapes the ways in which we perceive and understand not only music, but one another and the world.

This symposium seeks to promote a conversation that maps the networks of metaphors that structure musical discourse while tracing their repercussions – musicological, social, and political. There are eight confirmed keynote speakers and over twenty presenters on themes having to do with metaphor and race, ethnicity, nation, gender, sexuality, body, and disability. The ultimate aim of this symposium is to shift the power balance in terms of who gets to name, whose experiences and practices are recognized, which relationships we have the capacity to note, and what kinds of worlds we can create.

Keynote Speakers:

Jessica Bissett Perea, Dena’ina (Native American Studies, UC Davis)
Philip Ewell (Music Theory, Hunter College, CUNY)
J. Martin Daughtry (Music, NYU)
Nicholas Harkness (Anthropology, Harvard University)
Dorinne Kondo (American Studies and Ethnicity and Anthropology, USC)
Dylan Robinson, xwélméxw/Stó:lō/Skwah (Cultural Studies Graduate Program, Queen’s University)
Holly Watkins (Musicology, Eastman School of Music)
Shana Redmond (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)