In less than a decade, the field of Drum Kit Studies has attracted a growing list of international scholars and interdisciplinary specialists, each addressing the significant gap in literature on drummers, drum kits, and communities of drum kit playing and performance. Ushering in this new era of scholarship was Gareth Dylan Smith\u2019s\u00a0I Drum Therefore I Am<\/em>\u00a0(2013), followed by Bill Bruford\u2019s\u00a0Uncharted<\/em>\u00a0(2018), Matt Brennan\u2019s\u00a0Kick It\u00a0<\/em>(2020), as well as recent edited collections in the\u00a0Journal of Popular Music Education<\/em>\u00a0(2021),\u00a0The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit\u00a0<\/em>(2021),\u00a0and forthcoming works such as\u00a0A Critical Examination of Percussion and Drums in the Collegiate Curriculum<\/em>\u00a0(Smith & Davis, 2022) and\u00a0Authentic Drum Kit Pedagogy for Music Teachers<\/em>\u00a0(Davis & Smith, 2023).<\/p>\n In response to the growing momentum created by these and other recent works including emerging doctoral dissertations, we invite paper and presentation contributions to the 2022 International Drum Kit Studies conference. Our conference seeks to highlight the innovations of everyone involved in drum kit playing and scholarship, featuring eclectic contributions from a wide range of voices. The conference theme will celebrate the instrument as an amalgamation of African American creativity and genius, as well as how the drum kit and its most familiar sonic \u2018artifact\u2019 (i.e., the backbeat) has profoundly influenced global popular musics. We particularly welcome the contributions of international scholars and marginalized voices in the drumming community: BIPOC, female, LGBTQA+, international and other historically excluded performers and scholars.<\/p>\n We encourage submissions for 30-minute presentations, encompassing all aspects of drum kit-related topics, including those directly related to the conference themes:<\/p>\n All interested scholars are encouraged to submit a proposal of 300-500 words, along with a 50-word abstract and 100-word biographies of contributing authors, by May 1, 2022. Acceptance letters will be distributed by June 1. Please direct questions to Virginia Davis at virginia.davis@utrgv.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n Submit Proposal<\/a><\/p>\n We look forward to seeing you in Boston!<\/p>\n Dr. Virgina Wayman Davis\u00a0is Professor of Music Education at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her research interests include drums and percussion, meaningful music education practices, secondary general music, and popular music education. Dr. Davis is published in the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education<\/em>,\u00a0General Music Today,<\/em>\u00a0The Journal of Popular Music Education<\/em>,\u00a0The Journal of Music Teacher Education<\/em>, and several others. Dr. Davis stays active as a musician, currently playing percussion with the Valley Symphony Orchestra in south Texas and with her faculty pop\/rock band The Min\u00f6r Revisi\u00f6ns.<\/p>\n About the Conference September 9 – 10, 2022 Organizers Gareth Dylan Smith, Virginia Davis, and Daniel Akira Stadnicki, in association with the Boston University School of Music, are excited to announce the 2022 International Drum Kit Studies Conference, convening on the Boston University (Boston, MA) campus September 9-10, 2022. This conference follows the University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6310,"featured_media":0,"parent":8427,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8074"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92769,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8074\/revisions\/92769"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=8074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPresentation Submissions<\/h3>\n
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\nConference Organizers<\/h3>\n
Dr. Gareth Dylan Smith<\/h5>\n
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<\/strong>Dr. Gareth Dylan Smith is Assistant Professor of Music, Music Education at Boston University. His research interests include drum kit studies, popular music education, and sociology of music education. His first love is to play drums. Recent music releases include progressive smooth jazz tracks with The New Titans, the Sun Sessions<\/em>\u00a0EP with Stephen Wheel, and the\u00a0Ignorant Populists<\/em>\u00a0EP with Build a Fort (Zack Moir). Gareth is the drummer for Black Light Bastards and a founding editor of the\u00a0Journal of Popular Music Education<\/em>. His publications include\u00a0I Drum, Therefore I Am<\/em>\u00a0(2013),\u00a0Sound Advice for Drummers<\/em>\u00a0(2017) and the forthcoming (2022)\u00a0Magical Nexus: A Philosophy of Playing Drum Kit<\/em>.<\/p>\nDr. Virgina Wayman Davis<\/h5>\n
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<\/strong><\/p>\nDr. Daniel Akira Stadnicki<\/h5>\n
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<\/strong>Dr. Daniel Akira Stadnicki is a mixed Asian-Canadian drummer, scholar, and popular music educator based in Amiskwaciy Waskahikan\u00a0<\/em>(Edmonton, Alberta). Specializing in adapted drum kit for a wide range of global folk, roots, and traditional artists\u2014including\u00a0Farhad Kosravi<\/a>,\u00a0Jaron Freeman-Fox,\u00a0Spencer Murray<\/a>,\u00a0Dana Wylie<\/a>,\u00a0T. Buckley<\/a>,\u00a0Daniel Gervais<\/a>,\u00a0Braden Gates<\/a>, among others\u2014Daniel also holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Alberta. Currently, he is serving as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at McGill University and Director of World Percussion Ensembles at MacEwan University. As an author, Daniel has published in\u00a0The Drummers Journal,\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0Journal of Popular Music Education<\/em>\u00a0(JPME) (2017), and served as co-editor for\u00a0The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit<\/em>\u00a0(2021), a special issue on \u2018Drum Kit Studies\u2019 for the JPME\u00a0<\/em>(2021), and a forthcoming issue in\u00a0MUSICultures<\/em>\u00a0on Anti-Racist Pedagogies (2023).\u00a0For more information, please visit\u00a0www.danielstadnicki.com<\/a>\u00a0for a list of ongoing musical projects, drumming scholarship, and upcoming performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"