*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, IASPM XXI 2022 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF POPULAR MUSIC

IASPM XXI 2022

International Association for the Study of Popular Music

Daegu, South Korea, 5-9 July 2022 (hybrid format)

 

On behalf of the IASPM XXI 2022 Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) to be held at Daegu, South Korea on 5-9 July 2022. As you all know, IASPM 2021 originally to be held in July 2021 was postponed for 12 months. Due to this postponement, we are reopening Call for Presentations (CFP) for those who missed the chance to apply first time around and those who wish to revise or replace their original proposals.

Having been held every two years since 1981, IASPM is now one of world's most prestigious international conferences of popular music studies. It will be a fascinating opportunity for participants to share the latest information and knowledge in the diverse areas of popular music.

*CFP* "MEMORY, GUILT AND SHAME", 3RD INTERNATIONAL INTERISCIPLINARY ONLINE CONFERENCE

Memory, guilt and shame

3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference

Conference online (via Zoom)

 

The 20th century – an epoch of genocides – will be forever associated with feelings of guilt and shame. And it is not only the case of perpetrators. People are still ashamed of their ancestors and of the members of their nations, societies or families. Those who suffered from crimes and cruelties often experience survivor guilt, a mysterious phenomenon that psychotherapists try to tame. The status of bystanders is nowadays more and more often called into question, as it became clear that remaining “neutral” in the face of violence and atrocities was simply impossible. At the same time, many of both the victims and executioners make efforts to forget about the past events and repress the uncomfortable emotions. Others forget the facts involuntarily. Yet others cultivate false memories of what never occurred. Politicians impose their own narratives of history, with the hope of re-shaping the common convictions and achieving their short-sighted goals. Therefore, researchers dealing with memory studies of various kinds aim at explaining the complex relations of facts and phantasms, real and imagined guilt, justified and irrational shame.

*CFP* "HISTORIES OF DIGITAL JOURNALISM", CONFERENCE

Histories of Digital Journalism

A conference exploring the intersections of history, culture, digital technology and journalism

Budapest, Hungary: 24–25 June 2022

 

Although the shared past of digitization and journalism stretches back at least to a half-century, digital journalism history is a field still in formation. Building on the momentum of the recent ‘historical turn’ in digital media and internet studies, the aim of the conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary network of scholars to interrogate digital journalism histories and to start a global critical exchange on various approaches to and aspects of historicising digital journalism. As digital journalism has been re-configured by socio-historical contradictions of communication and complexities of its technological innovations, journalism scholarship should continuously strive for enhancing critical exchange to advance studies that intersect with numerous disciplines, theoretical approaches and methodological traditions. Emphasis of the conference is on the plurality of histories instead of one single digital journalism history, acknowledging diachronic as well as synchronic complexities of social relations, political contingencies, cultural traditions and power configurations between journalism and digitisation. Instead of enforcing one great master narrative, the conference aims to offer a space to embrace the co-existence of parallel, sometimes complementing, often conflicting historical investigations and narratives.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, SPRING 2022 GENERAL ISSUE, JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES OF TURKEY

An international biannual print and on-line publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey operates with a double-blind peer review system and publishes work (in English) on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and related subjects.

The Editorial Board welcomes articles which cross conventional borders between academic disciplines, as well as comparative studies of the United States.

The Journal of American Studies of Turkey is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, TÜBİTAK/ULAKBİM TR Dizin, and the Classificazione ANVUR delle riviste scientifiche (Italy). It also appears in the Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory and the MLA Directory of Periodicals. It can be accessed online, in print, and through the EBSCO and Dergi Park databases.  

Please see our submission guidelines for how to submit your manuscripts.

*CFP* "GROOVES AND MOVEMENTS", IASPM-US 2022 CONFERENCE

Grooves and Movements

IASPM-US 2022 Conference

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor/Detroit Michigan: May 26-28, 2022

 

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music-United States chapter (IASPM-US) invites proposals for its annual conference, which will take place in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan on May 26-28, 2022. We welcome abstracts for individual papers, organized panels, roundtable discussions, and alternative (non-paper) presentations on all aspects of popular music, broadly defined, from any discipline or profession. We especially encourage submissions on the many rich popular music histories of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Detroit. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to normalize virtual connections in local and global settings and to reconfigure physical spaces for social distancing, the present moment calls for an examination of the virtual and physical modalities of music-making. The theme for this year’s conference “Grooves and Movements” intersects with Detroit and its storied place in rhythm and blues, rock, punk, hip-hop, and electronic dance music, and is intended to connect the histories, philosophies, and practices of urban spaces to other historical and global popular music communities.

*CFP* "REGGAE FILMS, REGGAE ICONS, REGGAE MUSIC", 7TH GLOBAL REGGAE CONFERENCE

 "Reggae Films, Reggae Icons, Reggae Music"

7th Global Reggae Conference

University of the West Indies

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.

*CFP* "BLACK AND QUEER, MUSIC ON SCREEN", SPECIAL ISSUE, LIQUID BLACKNESS: JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND BLACK STUDIES

This special issue of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies proposes to work on Black Queer expression in audiovisual musics cutting across histories of the avant-garde, popular audiovisuality, and frameworks both transnational and critically transhistorical. The goal of the issue is to set up the framework for a survey of Black and Queer musicality in audiovisual media so as to suggest “non-contemporaneous” dialogues between and across historical registers and media platforms, so that the critical expressive power of non-conforming persons of color become a given rather than an alibi, an absence, or a projection.

From early sound cinema to the present, queer or gender non-conforming black artists have voiced a complex series of claims, propositions, demands, and desires, from the introduction of sound to the cinematic screen to the introduction of social media video in networked digital cultures. Black feminist and queer scholarship has often engaged with the meanings and powers expressed in these works, or in musical artists indebted to them or referencing them, from Angela Davis’ reading of transformations of historical memory in Smith’s St. Louis Blues (Blues Legacies and Black Feminisms), to Lindon Barrett’s study of Billie Holiday (Blackness and Value), to Saidiya Hartman’s discussion of errancy in relation to woman-identified women singers in the early years of recording (Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments), and Daphne Brooks’ recent reading of black women’s use of arrangement, sonic curation, and blackness as technology (Liner Notes for the Revolution) in articulating a politics of being and becoming. 

*CFP* "ENTERTAINMENT AND AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE SINCE 1950", ESSAYS COLLECTION

Popular Culture has been an integral factor in the fabric of America since its inception. Indeed, the clothes we wear, the music we listen to, the film and television we watch, literature we consume and other facets of our daily being is heavily, if not entirely influenced by the culture that we reside in. Exploring this culture can reveal some of our most deeply held beliefs and assumptions, ideas that we may otherwise take for granted. This is particularly the case since the mid 20th century. We are soliciting proposals for a collection of essays on Entertainment and American Popular Culture Since 1950. Submitted proposals should discuss any of the following topics, celebrities, events, awards, music, pageants, film, television, race, gender, religion, literature, sexuality, family. technology etc… Essays must focus on the topic of entertainment or the entertainment industry in some fashion.

While we will consider submissions from ABD’S and individuals from varied academic backgrounds, strong preference will be given to Ph.D.’s , Ed.D’s, MFA’s, MBA’s , Juris Doctorate’s , Journalists, MD’s and others with terminal degrees. Proposals should be no more than two pages. Submissions should be sent to either:

Elwood Watson, watsone@etsu.edu

Blake Scott Ball, bsball@hawks.huntingdon.edu

*CFP* "BROADCASTING IN (DE)COLONIAL SETTINGS", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE JOURNAL OF RADIO & AUDIO MEDIA

The emergence of radio introduced profound changes in public communication, changing patterns of information dissemination at local, national and international levels. In the case of the Imperial nations this role was extended overseas with radio becoming the most important medium for uniting the home countries with the expats living in the far reaches of the empires, though not unproblematically.

A growing body of literature on the history of imperial and colonial broadcasting, as well as of sound, have been contributing to the understanding of the role of radio technologies, broadcasting and music in the 20th century in forging audible and sonorous empires. However, the ways in which different imperial countries used radio to create a sense of nation and colonial identities among those living in different geographies remains an open question. On the other hand, in the last decades works dealing with the media during decolonization have called attention to the significant role played by the audio medium in promoting independence from colonial powers and giving visibility to forms of culture that would become part of national identities of the new-born countries. What research has also revealed is that much is still to be understood about the relation between radio and decolonization practices and processes. Thus, this special issue seeks to publish manuscripts dealing with how broadcasting was incorporated and appropriated within different colonial and decolonial settings.

Hence, papers dealing with the following topics will be highly appreciated (non-exhaustive list):

*CFP* "AMIGO-ENEMIGO. LAS FRANJAS INVISIBLES DEL ESPACIO POLÍTICO", II COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL PALIMPSESTOS PERSPECTIVAS CRÍTICAS DEL NORTE DE MÉXICO

II Coloquio Internacional Palimpsestos Perspectivas Críticas del Norte de México

Amigo - Enemigo. Las franjas invisibles del espacio político

Del 28 al 30 de octubre (coloquio en formato híbrido)

 

La Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (MÉXICO), la Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaíso (CHILE) y el Centro de Investigación Iberoamericano de Maguncia-Germersheim /Leipzig (CIIA, Alemania) celebran este coloquio del 28 al 30 de octubre de 2021 en Chihuahua (México).

Ejes temáticos:

• Significaciones desde lo local y lo global: Visitaciones/Revisitaciones al norte mexicano: exotismos y postexotismos

*CFP* "BLACK AND QUEER, MUSIC ON SCREEN", ISSUE 6.2, LIQUID BLACKNESS: JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND BLACK STUDIES

This special issue of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies proposes to work on Black Queer expression in audiovisual musics cutting across histories of the avant-garde, popular audiovisuality, and frameworks both transnational and critically transhistorical. The goal of the issue is to set up the framework for a survey of Black and Queer musicality in audiovisual media so as to suggest “non-contemporaneous” dialogues between and across historical registers and media platforms, so that the critical expressive power of non-conforming persons of color become a given rather than an alibi, an absence, or a projection.

 

 

Topics List

• Black queer practices of exceeding and disabling technology in the form of musical, audiovisual technics
• Archival recovery, fictive archiving, and critical fabulation of the archive through voice, sound, music, and musical audiovisuality

*CFP* "INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN GAME MUSIC AND ELECTRONIC DANCE", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE JOURNAL OF SOUND AND MUSIC IN GAMES

The Journal of Sound and Music in Games invites contributions to its first special issue, in which stylistic and cultural intersections will be explored between game music and electronic dance music.

 

We invite proposals for research articles on game music and electronic dance music, which will be double-blind peer-reviewed and published as a special issue of the/Journal of Sound and Music in Games/. We also welcome proposals for other kinds of materials, which should be discussed with the editors in the first instance.

Themes can include:

• Influences of game music techniques on dance music production techniques
• Relationships between game culture and electronic dance music culture, in terms of design, sound, music techniques
• Game cultural references in electronic dance music
• Games that employ electronic dance music

*CFP* LLAMADA A PARTICIPACIÓN, II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL COMUNICACIÓN ESPECIALIZADA

II Congreso Internacional Comunicación Especializada

18 y 19 de Noviembre de 2021 (híbrido)

Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación, Universidad de Málaga

 

 

El periodista especializado se halla entre las fuentes expertas, protagonistas de la noticia, por un lado, y las audiencias interesadas en determinados contenidos, por otra. Para informar a los ciudadanos sobre los mecanismos del mercado o de la administración de Justicia; para contarles los descubrimientos de las ciencias o los fichajes de los clubes deportivos siempre ha sido necesario, en efecto, un profesional que entienda lo que hacen y declaran las fuentes, por un lado; y capaz, al mismo tiempo, de divulgarlo entre personas que, no teniendo una particular formación en esas materias, las siguen con particular interés y tratan de conocerlas y comprenderlas para estar a la altura del tiempo en el que viven.

*CFP* "ENTERTAINMENT AND AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE SINCE 1950", COLLECTION OF ESSAYS

Popular Culture has been an integral factor in the fabric of America since its inception. Indeed, the clothes we wear, the music we listen to, the film and television we watch, literature we consume and other facets of our daily being is heavily, if not entirely influenced by the culture that we reside in. Exploring this culture can reveal some of our most deeply held beliefs and assumptions, ideas that we may otherwise take for granted. This is particularly the case since the mid 20th century. 

We are soliciting proposals for a collection of essays on Entertainment and American Popular Culture Since 1950. Submitted proposals should discuss any of the following topics, celebrities, events, awards, music, pageants, film, television, race, gender, religion, literature, sexuality, family. technology etc… Essays must focus on the topic of entertainment or the entertainment industry in some fashion.

While we will consider submissions from ABD’S and individuals from varied academic backgrounds, STRONG PREFERENCE will be given to Ph.D.’s, Ed.D’s, MFA’s, MBA’s , Juris Doctorate’s , Journalists, MD’s and others with terminal degrees. 

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, 2021 ISSUES, TRANSLATION REVIEW JOURNAL

The editors of Translation Review are inviting submissions:

• translations of contemporary international writers into English 
• submissions that discuss the process and practical problems of translating, including the reconstruction of the translation process. 
• interviews with translators 
• manuscritps that address the concept of translation in the visual and musical arts 
• translation in the digital age

 

Guidelines 

Please note that all scholarly manuscripts should follow the Chicago Manual of Style EB (endnotes and bibliography).

*CFP* "LA NOCHE EN EL MUNDO IBÉRICO E IBEROAMERICANO", XL CONGRESO DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES HISPANISTES FRANÇAIS

La noche en el mundo ibérico e iberoamericano

XL Congreso de la Société des Hispanistes Français - SHF

de 8 a 10 de junio de 2022

Universidad de Artois (Arras, Francia)

 

Dedicado a la temática de la noche en el mundo ibérico e iberoamericano el congreso se celebrará en la Universidad de Artois (Arras, Francia), de 8 a 10 de junio de 2022, en el marco del XL Congreso de la Sociedad de Hispanistas Franceses (SHF)

Será la ocasión de sacar a la luz percepciones diferentes y de cuestionar la evolución de las representaciones de la noche y de las realidades unidas a este espacio-tiempo a lo largo de las épocas y según las áreas culturales. Podrán contemplarse varios enfoques:

*CFP* "SOUNDS OF MIGRATION", 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

"Sounds of Migration" 2021 Annual Conference

Pennsylvania State University (hybrid or virtual conference format – TBD)

November 4-6, 2021

 

The growing flow and circulation of migrants and refugees across the world introduces unfamiliar voices and sounds into new environments. This conference will examine the diverse expressions and echoes of what we call the sounds of migration. Drawing from Arjun Appadurai’s (1996) definition of technoscapes, we conceptualize “the sounds of migration” as encapsulating the fluid nature of sounds, bodies, and cultural elements coming together to construct imagined worlds, as seen in a globalized space. We invite a broad range of submissions that explore various aspects of the oral and aural dynamics related to migrations, displacements, refugees, and diasporas. How do minority voices emerge? What impact do experiences of migration have on everyday life, both from those relocating and the receiving society? How is literature, language, music, and/or other forms of culture and artistic expression created? How do languages in contact influence each other and lead to changes in pronunciation, word formation or sentence structure?

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, BARN VIRTUAL COLLOQUIA

The BARN Virtual Colloquia was established in 2020 to foster an international, virtual community of scholars and practitioners from all disciplines engaged with the study of music and sound in audio-visual media. We now invite proposals for the next series of events, which will take place from October-December 2021.

Submissions may relate to any aspect of music, sound and the moving image, and may take the following formats:

• Standard 20-minute conference papers and Q&A 
• Full themed panels (Two or three 20-minute papers plus, optionally, a session chair) 
• Interviews with industry figures

 

Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis so early submissions are strongly encouraged! (Submissions will close on 1st August 2021 at the very latest).

*CFP* "BROADCASTING IN (DE)COLONIAL SETTINGS", JOURNAL OF RADIO & AUDIO MEDIA SYMPOSIUM

The emergence of radio introduced profound changes in public communication, changing patterns of information dissemination at local, national and international levels. In the case of the Imperial nations this role was extended overseas with radio becoming the most important medium for uniting the home countries with the expats living in the far reaches of the empires, though not unproblematically.

A growing body of literature on the history of imperial and colonial broadcasting, as well as of sound, have been contributing to the understanding of the role of radio technologies, broadcasting and music in the 20th century in forging audible and sonorous empires. However, the ways in which different imperial countries used radio to create a sense of nation and colonial identities among those living in different geographies remains an open question. On the other hand, in the last decades works dealing with the media during decolonization have called attention to the significant role played by the audio medium in promoting independence from colonial powers and giving visibility to forms of culture that would become part of national identities of the new-born countries. What research has also revealed is that much is still to be understood about the relation between radio and decolonization practices and processes. Thus, this special issue seeks to publish manuscripts dealing with how broadcasting was incorporated and appropriated within different colonial and decolonial settings.

*CFP* "BLACK AND QUEER, MUSIC ON SCREEN", SPECIAL ISSUE, LIQUID BLACKNESS JOURNAL

This special issue of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies proposes to work on Black Queer expression in audiovisual musics cutting across histories of the avant-garde, popular audiovisuality, and frameworks both transnational and critically transhistorical. The goal of the issue is to set up the framework for a survey of Black and Queer musicality in audiovisual media so as to suggest “non-contemporaneous” dialogues between and across historical registers and media platforms, so that the critical expressive power of non-conforming persons of color become a given rather than an alibi, an absence, or a projection.

From early sound cinema to the present, queer or gender non-conforming black artists have voiced a complex series of claims, propositions, demands, and desires, from the introduction of sound to the cinematic screen to the introduction of social media video in networked digital cultures. Black feminist and queer scholarship has often engaged with the meanings and powers expressed in these works, or in musical artists indebted to them or referencing them, from Angela Davis’ reading of transformations of historical memory in Smith’s St. Louis Blues (Blues Legacies and Black Feminisms), to Lindon Barrett’s study of Billie Holiday (Blackness and Value), to Saidiya Hartman’s discussion of errancy in relation to woman-identified women singers in the early years of recording (Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments), and Daphne Brooks’ recent reading of black women’s use of arrangement, sonic curation, and blackness as technology (Liner Notes for the Revolution) in articulating a politics of being and becoming.