Music and the Body
9–11 March 2012
Room MG07, Main Building
The University of Hong Kong
Organiser
Department of Music and the Centre for the Humanities and
Medicine
The University
of Hong Kong
Theme
What is the relationship between music and the body? Almost
everything concerning music is quintessentially related
to the body, yet the answers to this question are multifaceted.
The relationship is multimodal involving the auditory, kinaesthetic,
and visual, and is observed at diverse levels of experience
across sensation, perception, creation/production, interpretation,
and communication. The notion of "body" itself
is multivalent, and thus the connection can be subject to
various interpretations from different perspectives, such
as anatomical, medical, cognitive, aesthetic, cultural,
social, and historical. Reckoning the clashes between these
perspectives, this conference proposes to investigate the multidimensional
relationship between music and the body in a setting that
promotes a genuine intellectual exchange of ideas.
The conference is particularly interested in questions and
approaches that cut across traditional disciplines. For example,
how the humanistic interpretation of corporeality could be
linked to the scientific studies of the theme? Conversely,
what are the implications of recent medical and neuroscientific
investigations to the historical and cultural contextualisation
of music and the body? How has music been used to control
the body? And in light of the expanded notion of the musical
mind and brain, how is the duality between the body and mind
viewed in today's discourse on music perception? Other interpretations
of the theme are equally welcome.
Speakers
The conference will feature a keynote address by Sander Gilman
(Emory University/The University of Hong Kong), with invited
presentations by Eric Clarke (University of Oxford), Lawrence
Zbikowski (University of Chicago), Martha Feldman (University of Chicago), Atau Tanaka (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Marina Gilman (Emory
Voice Center).
Registration
To register for the conference, please download the registration
form and send
it to musicandthebody.reg@gmail.com.
Please note the early-bird registration ends on 5 February 2012. The registration
fees include two luncheons and the conference dinner, which will give participants
a chance to interact and exchange ideas for further collaborations.
Registration form 
Conference
Programme
Contact
Dr. Youn KIM
Department of Music
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2857 8220
Fax: +852 2858 4933
Email: musicandthebody@gmail.com
Website: www.hku.hk/music/events/conferences/music-body
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