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Music and the idea of the North Order clomid, 6-7 September 2008
Venue: Sullivan Room, Leeds Town Hall

A conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the opening of Leeds TownHall, hosted by: The Institute of Northern Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds University Centre for English Music (LUCEM), University of Leeds Leeds International Concert Season Opera North

On 6 September 1858, Queen Victoria travelled to Leeds by rail to open the new town hall, built to an ambitious prize-winning design by the young Hull architect Cuthbert Brodrick. In the festivities which unfolded over her two-day visit, acquistare online clomid, Buy clomid online without prescription, music played a prominent role, from the 32, Kentucky KY Ky. , Ohio OH , 000 Sunday-school children who sang hymns as the procession passed, to the massed choral forces which delivered the Hallelujah Chorus at the climax of the ceremony itself, generic clomid. Ordering clomid without prescription, In the decades that followed, Leeds Town Hall became one of the most widely recognised emblems of civic pride in the north of England, acheter clomid bon marché, New Mexico NM N.Mex. , and a prestigious venue for the festival premières of works such as Edward Elgar’s Caractacus, William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast, ordering clomid online legally, Cheap clomid, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the town hall, order clomid online without prescription, Colorado CO Colo. , LUCEM and the Institute of Northern Studies present a two-day conference addressing connections between music and global northern identities: how does music express ideas of ‘the north’ and ‘northerliness’, and how have musical cultures been shaped by the dynamics of north vs south, Texas TX Tex. . Pennsylvania PA Penn. , Papers are invited on any aspect of music and the north, but are particularly encouraged on the following themes:

music and northern landscapes;

northern venues and institutions for music;

regional variation in audiences, ordering clomid, Cheapest clomid prices, markets, and consumption of music;

musical tensions between north and south (within nations, cheap clomid no rx, Missouri MO Mo. , regions, cities, Alaska AK , Buy generic clomid, etc.);

cultural policy and regeneration;

comparative studies of music in northern centres;

music and ethnic-minority communities;

popular, folk, köpa billiga clomid, Kansas KS Kans. , and traditional musics;

northern styles and genres;

music, industrialisation, discount clomid, Ordering clomid from canada, and civic identity;

music, politics, cheap clomid online, and radicalism.

Proposals (up to 200 words) for papers of c. 20 minutes’ duration should be sent by 31 March 2008 to the programme committee:
Professor Tony Collins, Leeds Metropolitan University
Dr Rachel Cowgill, University of Leeds
Professor Dave Russell, Leeds Metropolitan University
Professor Derek Scott, University of Leeds

Our keynote speakers will be:
Professor Sherrill E. Grace, University of British Columbia, author of Canada and the Idea of North (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001)
Professor Peter Davidson, University of Aberdeen, author of The Idea of North (Reaktion, 2005)

Further details will be posted on the LUCEM and Institute of Northern Studies websites in due course.

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