Call for Papers

2017 Desert Skies Symposium on Music Education Research

School of Music, Arizona State University

February 23-25, 2017

Symposium Website: https://desertskies.music.asu.edu

The Desert Skies Symposium on Music Education Research invites submissions for the fifteenth biennial meeting, to be held February 23-25, 2017, on the campus of Arizona State University. Research papers related to music teaching and learning in any context are invited from college and university faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, preK-12 music educators, teaching artists, and community music educators. Submit an abstract of 700-800 words (references not included in word count). Send the abstract as an attachment in an email to desertskies2017@gmail.com. Include the author or first author’s last name in the filename (i.e, “Smith.DesertSkies”).

• State your name, affiliation, email address, and other contact information in the body of the email only.
• Deadline for submissions is October 30, 2016.
• Abstracts will be blind reviewed by the symposium advisory board.
• Authors will be notified of acceptance by November 18th, 2016.

The Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education will publish a special issue dedicated to papers from the Desert Skies Symposium. Full papers to be considered for publication will be peer reviewed separately for the special issue, and should be submitted electronically to the journal (bcrme.press.illinois.edu/submissions.html) following the symposium. The deadline for submitting for the special issue is April 15, 2017.