MPSG Online - Sounding out Musical Ethics

The MPSG Committee comprises:Férdia Stone-Davis, ChairD﻿ominik R. Mitterer, SecretarySamuel Wilson, Events CoordinatorFriedlind Riedel, CommunicationsAlexander Douglas , EDI and CommunicationsAndrew Huddleston, TreasurerNaomi Waltham-Smith, Advisory MemberMartin Stokes, Senior Advisory MemberDerek Matravers, Senior Advisory Member

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Dr Ariana Phillips-Hutton will convene a session on "Sounding Out Musical Ethics" as part of the RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group Online

Session abstract: Contemporary musical life is saturated with ethically significant issues, from evaluating Spotify's business practices to the function of copyright and intellectual property law, from distinguishing cultural appropriation to confronting structural inequality in music, and from choosing to perform Wagner in Israel to choosing to perform in Israel at all. Despite this interweaving, working out the relationship between music and ethics has historically been fraught with questions: does music carry ethical content? If so, how and in what ways could it be said to be ethical? Alternatively, how might the structures and relations of music influence conceptions of ethics? The challenge of bringing ethics and music together has been addressed with increasing frequency in recent years by authors such as Marcel Cobussen and Nanette Nielsen (Music and Ethics, 2012), Michael Gallope (Deep Refrains, 2017), and Jeff Warren (Musical and Ethical Responsibility, 2014). A recent essay by Kathleen Higgins ('Connecting Music to Ethics', 2018) suggests strategies for applying music to ethically positive ends, yet questions over the viability and desirability of such a project remain unexplored. This seminar-style session includes submissions that engage with broad questions of music and ethics in the contemporary world as well as focused studies of particular repertoires, events, or ethical questions. Individual Papers: Victoria Aschheim: What Hate Can Do to a Choir: Vocal Ethics and Ted Hearne's AnimalsUri Agnon: Between Critique and Judgement - Reviewing New MusicLeia Devadason: Is the Limit of Performance...Performativity? Musical Ethics in 'Unprecedented Times'Sam McAuliffe: Improvisation as Original Ethics: Exploring the Ethical in Heidegger and Gadamer from a Musical PerspectiveLuis Velasco-Pufleau: "Only Fear Grew Inside my Body": Ethics, Femicide and Compositional Strategies in Hilda Paredes' La Tierra de la MielWe thank the Margaret Beaufort Institute, Cambridge, for the use of their Zoom account to host this series. If you have any questions, please email Hannah at hannahcapstickmusic@gmail.com or Matthew at m.pritchard1@leeds.ac.uk.

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