Call for Papers

46th International Baltic Musicological Conference
Cultural Change And Music Criticism

Lithuanian Composers’ Union, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Vilnius)
23–26 October 2018
The conference seeks to provide a space for thorough engagement into music criticism and welcomes the submissions on following aspects:

• Theories of the 20th–21st c. music criticism
• Music criticism and political change
• Criticism, musical taste and society
• Cultural omnivorousness andperspectives of music criticism
• Music criticism and values
• Musical institutions and critical networks
• Music criticism and the art of performance
• Music criticism and music industry
• Music criticism and media
• Music criticism: globalisation or glocalisation?

Official language of the conference is English. You are invited to submit the proposals for individual papersand study group sessions by May 31, 2018. An abstract (up to 300 words for 20-minute individual paper) and a CV (up to 150 words) should be submitted to the conference coordinator Rasa Murauskaitė at mokslas@lmta.lt. For study group sessions a general summary is required. Information about the selected proposals will be announced by the end of June 2018. Further information on conference programme, registration and accommodation arrangements will be announced at the end of July 2018, on the internet sites of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union (www.lks.lt) and of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (www.lmta.lt). Selected papers will be published in article collections by the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Rūta Stanevičiūtė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre) – chair
Andreas Engström (Kontraklang, Berlin)
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (King's College London)
Jūratė Katinaitė (Lithuanian National Radio)
Jānis Kudiņš (Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music)
Olga Manulkina (St Petersburg N. Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory)
Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
Richard Taruskin (University of California, Berkeley)