INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE Traditional music in the 21st century to the 200th anniversary of music ethnography in Kazakhstan

December 11-12, 2017

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

Traditional music in the 21^st century

to the 200^th anniversary of music ethnography in Kazakhstan

The main directions of the conference

·      Musical ethnography and modern methods of studying traditional music

·      Historiography of Ethnographic Studies

·      Traditional performing arts in the 21^st century

·      Traditional music of Turkic-speaking peoples and musical turkology

·      Traditional culture in the mirror of interdisciplinary research

·      Heritage of traditional culture in art, education and science

In the “Asian Musical Magazine” in 1818, in Astrakhan musician and folklorist I. Dobrovolsky first published a Kazakh song notation. This year can be considered as the beginning of musical and ethnographic research in Kazakhstan and therefore as an occasion to comprehend the 200-year history of Kazakh traditional music studies. Round tables and concerts will be held in the framework of the conference in honor of the 90^th anniversary of B. Sarybaev and the 30^th anniversary of the National Singing Department.

Scientists, teachers and students of higher educational institutions are invited to participate in the conference. Conference languages: Kazakh, English and Russian. Form of participation: report.

Until November 14, 2017 the application form must be submitted to the Organizing Committee. The name of the report (paper), full name of the participant, academic degree, academic rank, place of work or study, telephone number, e-mail address should be indicated in the Application. Students, undergraduates and graduates also need to indicate their full name, degree, academic title, position of scientific adviser / consultant. The text of the report is attached to the application. It is planned to publish a collection before the conference.

Travel and accommodation are paid by the sending party. 

Address: 050000, Almaty, Abylai khan Ave, 86. Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory. For emergency contacts: +7(707)353-9925.

Requirements for reports

The volume of the report for publication should be no more than 20 thousand characters. Format: computer typing in Microsoft Word 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010 (with the extension *.Doc, *.Docx, *.Rtf); font – Times New Roman, 14 pt in the main text, 12 pt – in the notes. Notes (footnotes) page-posing with using the “footnote” option (ctrl + alt + f) in the program «MsWord». Please do not use endnotes. Line spacing single, all fields – 2 cm, width adjustment.

Paragraphs 1.25 cm indented (but not using tabs or spaces), paragraph spacing –usual, scriptal marcs with italics. Headlines – UPPERCASE letters (centered). Before heading out – the NAME and SURNAME of the author italics conventional lowercase: right justified. Subtitles – bold. Tonality should be written in Latin: C-dur, g-moll, name sounds – Latin letters and  italicized: h, G, a2. Dates: century – Roman, years and decades – Arabic.

Musical examples, diagrams and figures should be inserted in the main text, as well as attached as separate files in any graphic formats (JPEG, TIFF, BMP, etc.).

The article should be concluded with an automatically numbered bibliography (with the “References” heading). References to the mentioned sources should be placed in the text in square brackets specifying ordinal number of the source in the list of references and page number separated by comma (examples: [17, 25], [3, 36]).

Authors of articles are solely responsible for the accuracy and reliability of the information, quotations, references and bibliographies.

Articles irrelevant to the topic of the conference and the above requirements are not allowed for publication.

Text of the report and application for participation in the conference should be sent only in the electronic version at: knk.nauka@gmail.com. Deadline for submission of full texts - to November 14, 2017.