"Reggae Films, Reggae Icons, Reggae Music"
7th Global Reggae Conference
February 16-19, 2022
Hosted typically as a premier biennial event, in this its 7th staging, the Global Reggae Conference shifts to a triennial offering in 2022. Hosted inside Jamaica’s Reggae Month, this conference will engage academics within a wide field of scholastic orientations and practice. In celebration of the productive space created by the film, this conference aims to bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, researchers, writers, critics, music aficionados, and artists to deliberate on the conference theme. This event comes as part of larger project on music, popular culture and Reggae Studies in particular, through which scholars, students, institutions have engaged in partnership to expand scholarship and outreach through research, creative production, community engagement, experimentation, archive building, and exhibitions, among others.
We welcome proposed papers, exhibitions, experimental media that address the following conference sub-themes:
- Defining the Reggae Film
- Reggae Films: Music, Medium and Message
- Literary Criticism and the Reggae Film
- Reggae Films and their Fictions
- Postcolonial Cinema, Black Cinema
- Reggae Films, Festivals, and Tourism
- Reggae Films as Rhetoric and Discourse
- To Script or Not to Script?
- Reggae Films, Language and Authenticity
- Reggae Films and the Influence of Other Genres (Kickers, Spaghetti Westerns)
- Reggae Films and Rude Boy Aesthetics
- Reggae Films and the Role of Rastafari
- The Harder They Come as Cult Film
- Reggae Films: Soundtracks, Scores and Message Music
- Fashion and Style in Reggae Films
- Reggae Films, Celebrity and the Making of Icons
- Imagery, the Inner-city and Reggae Cinematography
- Music Videos as Genre of Reggae Films
- Reggae Films as Subculture
- Reggae Films, Rude Boys, Shottas and Anti-Heroes
- The Globalisation of Reggae Films
- Reggae Films, Gender and the Role of Women
- Violence and Stereotype in Reggae Films
- Reggae Films and Social Transformation
- Reggae Films in the Diaspora
- Reggae Films and The White / Male Gaze
- Reggae Films, New Media, and New Technologies
- Reggae Film Spaces, Scenes and Locations
- Reggae Films: Appropriation or Appreciation?
- Dubbing the Reggae Film
- Reggae Film Histories and Futures
We would also welcome presentations and displays made through innovative uses of media, music and technology alongside traditional formats. Presentation proposals from musicians, artistes and students are welcome.
Abstracts for individual or panel presentations of no more than 250 words supported by a short biography no longer than 75 words, should be submitted to the conference organisers for international peer review.
For pre-organised panels, include one abstract for each presenter. Each abstract should include the following information: name of author/authors; email address/es; name of associated institution; and keywords of presentation.
We welcome innovative uses of technology and creative sessions formats as well as traditional paper presentations.
- Deadline for submission of abstracts: September 30, 2021
- Deadline for submission of conference papers: November 1, 2021
Email all submissions to reggae.studies@uwimona.edu.jm with the subject heading "The Harder They Harder Turns 50".
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