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From: "Harris M. Berger" <hberger@UNIX.TAMU.EDU>
Call for Papers:
"Global Popular Music and the Politics and Aesthetics of Language Choice"
(for a Special Issue of _Popular Music and Society_)
We are interested in reading proposals that deal with the politics and
aesthetics of language and language choice in a full range of popular
musics, Western or non-Western, contemporary or of the past. Scholars from
a variety of disciplinary perspectives are encouraged to send submissions
(rhetoric, linguistics, political science, cultural studies, musicology,
ethnomusicology, sociology, folklore, communications, etc.).
Topics may include (but are not limited to): the dissemination of English
through popular music in post-WW II Europe; language choice and the
crossover phenomenon; vocal style and the simulation of regional dialect
in country musics; French and native languages in the popular musics of
the Francophone world; the politics and aesthetics of diction; language
choice in Asian or Latin American heavy metal; dialect singing in the Tin
Pan Alley tradition; the relationship between Tejano and Nashville style
country music; the aesthetics of incomprehensibility (singing in or
listening to a language one does not understand); Global Pop and World
English; pop and language choice in Asia; dialect and class in popular
music; language choice in African diasporic musics; regionalism and
dialect in Indian pop; dialect appropriation, diction, language choice,
and the speech-song continuum; British and American Englishes in 1960s
rock; the politics and aesthetics of standard and regional dialects; code
switching in popular music; dialect and the creative use of diction;
nationalism and language choice in Quebec.
In order to be considered, please send a two page summary via e-mail or
regular paper mail. If your proposal is promising, we'll ask you for an
essay of roughly 18-32 pages, on paper and disk, prepared according to the
_Popular Music and Society_ submission guidelines. The disk copy must be
IBM compatible, WordPerfect preferred, or an ASCII, Generic, or other
easily accessible word processing system.
If your proposal is oriented towards rhetoric, linguistics, literary
theory, general popular culture, and general humanities, send to:
Michael T. Carroll,
English Dept.
Highlands University
Las Vegas, New Mexico 87701
USA
E-mail: spike_cee@yahoo.com
If your proposal is oriented toward musicology, ethnomusicology, or
the social sciences, send to:
Harris M. Berger
Music Program,
405 Academic Bldg.,
Texas A & M University
College Station, Texas 7783-4240
USA
E-mail: hberger@unix.tamu.edu
Deadlines: For Proposals: Dec 15, 1999; For Papers: June 15, 2000
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