ROOTS AND RHIZOMES:
Seventy-Five Years of Percussion Music

Paper Submission Deadline, EXTENDED: January 5th, 2007

We invite submissions from all disciplines for the conference Roots and Rhizomes: 75 years of Percussion Music to be held February 21-24, 2007 at the University of California, San Diego. The papers should represent a wide variety of innovative and interdisciplinary research and experience related to percussion in the 20th and 21st centuries. We are searching for original writing that presents issues, problems, solutions, interpretations, analysis, or aesthetic arguments about repertoire, performances, composers, performers, genres or other related subjects relevant to the topics listed.

Papers will be presented as either a poster or 15-minute presentation. Accepted papers cannot be published elsewhere and will be printed in the proceedings of the Roots and Rhizomes conference. All papers are subjected to the policies of the University of California. By submitting your paper you agree to these terms. Please contact the committee chairs listed below for more information.

Specifications:

1. Submit finished papers to percussion[at]music.ucsd.edu in PDF format. In your e-mail, include the following:
   1. Your Full Name and Paper Title in the Subject Line
   2. Author, Contact, and Abstract in the Body Text
   3. Register on-line
2. Length: between 4 and 8 pages
3. Format: Please use provided template for text and citations
4. Template: Download Template (52K - Microsoft Word Document)
5. Notification of Acceptance: December 20th, 2006

Topics:

• Theater
• Technology
• Media
• Performance Studies
• History
• Criticism
• Instrument Creation
• Improvisation
• Cultural Studies
• Ethnomusicology
• Experimental Practices
• Interpretation
• Chamber Music

Paper Committee Chairs:

• Robert Esler, Chair resler[at]ucsd[dot]edu
• Gustavo Aguilar, co-chair gustavo[at]gustavoaguilar[dot] com
• Fabio Oliveira, co-chair foliveira[at]ucsd[dot]edu

The conference Roots and Rhizomes: Seventy-Five Years of Percussion Music seeks to understand, and possibly disentangle, multiple allegiances with respect to cultural heritage, performance practice, discourse and community that are the birthright of every practicing contemporary percussionist. Since much of the modern evolution of percussion music has taken place within the lifetimes of many of its practitioners, we are able to invite performers who had pioneering roles in its development. Percussionists such as Al Otte, Jan Williams, and Bernhard Wullf can speak knowledgably about the historical and cultural conditions that produced the early great works for percussion solo and chamber music. Another group of participants, representing a diversity of practices including improvisers Fritz Hauser and Vanessa Tomlinson, chamber musicians such as the Percussion Group Cincinnati and young soloists will speak effectively about their work in the cross-hairs of a changing historical and cultural milieu.