<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;">Dear Colleagues and scholars working on hermeneutics and/or music,</p><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">A friendly reminder about the following call for chapters:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">I am currently seeking chapter proposals <span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">for a volume with the working title </span><em class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Gadamer, Music, and Philosophical Hermeneutics</span></em><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> for submission to Springer as part of the </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/reheCyojxQTrv8xPkHZv_1P?domain=springer.com" class="">Contributions to Hermeneutics</a><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> series</span> <span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">edited by Jeff Malpas and Claude Romano. I am in contact with the editors and they have expressed interest in publishing the volume, subject to positive review, of course.</span></p><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">A brief, preliminary project overview is as follows:</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Philosophical hermeneutics is one of the most far-reaching philosophical disciplines of contemporary European thought, and yet, aside from a handful of a texts (Benson, 2003, 2006, 2019; Kramer, 2010; McAuliffe (forthcoming); Nielsen, 2015, 2016; Savage, 2009) it has received little attention from scholars concerned with music. The goal of this volume is to demonstrate how, principal founder of philosophical hermeneutics, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thought can address and provide insight into contemporary issues and challenges in music. Further, given the way in which Gadamer himself develops his hermeneutics from a consideration of aesthetics, and the way in which recent commentary has noted the dialogical relationship between music and hermeneutics, this volume is also interested in uncovering ways in which a consideration of music can provide insight into the hermeneutical.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">While all proposals pitching an original Gadamerian perspective on music are welcome, priority will be given to proposals that take up ideas from both music </span><i class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">and</i><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> Gadamer’s philosophy to address fundamental ontological questions of relevance to contemporary issues facing both music and philosophical scholarship.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Status of proposal:</span></b><span class="" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> I am in discussion with the editors of the Contributions to Hermeneutics series, and I will send the book proposal to them for review after reviewing proposals and shaping the structure of the book.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Email your proposal to </span></b><span class="" style="line-height: 18px; color: windowtext;"><a href="mailto:sam.mcauliffe@monash.edu" class=""><b class="">sam.mcauliffe@monash.edu</b></a></span><b class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span class="" style="line-height: 18px;">by 13 March 2022. </span></b><span class="" style="line-height: 18px;">Proposals <span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">should be approximately 1 page, including chapter title, abstract (1-2 paragraphs), proposed word count (typically 5,000-8,000 words), and short bio.</span></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Full draft chapters due:</span></b><span class="" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> late September 2022, actual date & timeline TBC.</span> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><i class="">*Please feel free to distribute this among your interested colleagues and networks - </i></span><i class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">I am seeking chapters by philosophers, musicians, music educators, musicologists, and other researchers who draw on Gadamer’s thought.</span></i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Warm regards,</div><div class="">Sam </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="">
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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br class="">—<br class=""><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Dr Sam McAuliffe</b><br class="">Monash University<br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class=""><font color="#ab7942" class="">Recent Publications</font></b></span><font color="#ab7942" class="">:</font><br class="">McAuliffe, Sam. “Beyond the Performer: Gadamer, Pareyson, and the Hermeneutics of Improvised Musical Performance.” <i class="">Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">,</span> (forthcoming).</div><div>McAuliffe, Sam. “The Inseparability Between Player(s) and Artwork in Improvised Musical Performance.” <i class="">Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation</i>, (forthcoming 2022).</div><div>McAuliffe, Sam, and Jeff Malpas. “Improvising the Round Dance of Being: Reading Heidegger from a Musical Perspective.” In <i class="">Heidegger and Music</i>, edited by Casey Rentmeester and Jeff R. Warren. Rowman and Littlefield, 2022.</div><div>McAuliffe, Sam. "Improvisation as Original Ethics: Exploring the Ethical in Heidegger and Gadamer from a Musical Perspective.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Journal of Applied Hermeneutics</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">. (2021): 1-15.</span></div><div>McAuliffe, Sam. “Defending the ‘Improvisation as Conversation’ Model of Improvised Musical Performance.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Jazz Perspectives</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>13, no. 1</span> (2021): 1-13.</div><div>McAuliffe, Sam. “The Horizonal Field of Improvised Musical Performance.” <i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Journal of Aesthetic Education</i> 55, no. 2 (2021): 78-95.<br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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