CFP - Musicking in Disabled Community: Access Intimacy and Cultural Activism.

The Music and Disability Study Group of the AMS announces a call for presentations at our sponsored session at the national AMS Meeting in Minneapolis, MN on November 6-9, 2025.

The general theme for our call is “Musicking in Disabled Community: Access Intimacy and Cultural Activism.”

We especially welcome proposals for presentations about projects and studies that:

• Are driven by the interests and priorities of disabled people;
• Involve people collaborating across disability identities, prestige categories, and professional affiliations;
• Engage with co-creating disability culture (see Brown, “What is Disability Culture,” ​Disability Studies Quarterly 22:2 (2022) and/or access intimacy (See Mingus, “Access Intimacy: The Missing Link”, 2011;  https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/ ) as a form of resistance to structural ableism.

The session will feature a series of 10-minute talks. Please email abstracts of no more than 250 words to [email protected]. The submission deadline is Monday, April 7, 2025. Acceptance notifications will be communicated by the end of April. 

This Call for Presentations is part of a broader Call for Participation in conversations related to these topics, co-sponsored by our Music and Disability Community of Practice and others, that will take place in person and online; synchronously and asynchronously; before, during, and after the AMS-Minneapolis meeting.  More details on that Call for Participation are forthcoming.

While membership in AMS and registration for the Minneapolis conference are required for presentation at the Study Group session itself because of AMS policy, we are eager for those who want to contribute to our conversations to submit their proposals regardless of affiliation or intention to attend the Minneapolis meeting, and are determined to include as many voices as possible in the Community of Practice events.