Call for Papers & Presentations
Radio Division
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association Conference
Albuquerque, New Mexico
February 13-17, 2002
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Hello.
I am assembling radio panels for the annual Southwest/Texas Popular
Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, which
takes place in Albuquerque, Feb. 13-17, 2002 at the Albuquerque
Hilton.
The SW/Texas PCA/ACA accepts scholarly papers from academics,
students, and professionals for presentation.
What topics are appropriate for the radio division? If it's radio
related, the topic will at least be considered. From programming to
law and policy to Internet radio to history to personalities to well,
you name it, as long as your topic fits under the radio umbrella it
stands a chance.
Last year's radio papers included:
* Music For Minivans: Notes on Radio Disney
* Gunsmoke on the Radio
* Where Has It Gone? Introducing Radio to the Twenty-First-Century
* Electronic Sandbox? An Analysis of Student-Run College Radio
* The King Biscuit Flower Hour: A Story of Syndicated Radio in the '70s
* After Hours North - Rainbow Radio: Developing & Implementing a
College Radio-Station Program Tailored to the Homosexual Listening
Audience
What is the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American
Culture Association Conference like? First off, broadcast types
should know this is not a media conference. Media is but one of
several areas of study explored at the conference.
The PCA's mission is "to promote an innovative and nontraditional
academic movement in Humanities and Social Sciences, to provide an
outlet for scholars, writers, and others interested in the popular
culture, to share ideas in a professional atmosphere, and to have
papers presented at meetings."
The atmosphere is professional, but really very relaxed compared to
some media conferences. Interest divisions range from Radio to Folk
Ways & Ethnicity to Geography to History to Law & Culture to Creative
Writing to Music to Romance Novels to Religion to Visual Arts &
Architecture to Wars & War Eras to, well anything pop culture.
Indeed, anything pop culture is game. At the 2001 conference, you
could attend presentations on
* Post-World War II British Pop Culture Interfaces with American
Taste: A British American Rock Singer's Experience
* Another Fine Example of the Oral Tradition(?): Cinematic Subversion
in Smoke Signals
* Conflicting Inclinations: Latino/a Children's Literature Into the
21st Century,
* Sustaining the Grateful Dead Community with Digital Technology
* Patti Smith's Postmodern Punk Rock
* Musty Boxes Under the Stairwell: A History of a 100-Year-Old Texas Bank
* Here Comes Santa Claus: Promises, Expectations, and Television, 1946-1951
Or you could attend the screening of the Jack Keroac documentary Go
Moan For Man.
Though this is a regional conference, presenters are from all over
the United States, Canada and Mexico.
What do I need from you? If you are interested in presenting a paper
at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association Conference, then I need to receive the following via mail
or e-mail no later than November 15, 2002:
1) A 100 - 300 word paper proposal
2) A brief biographical sketch
3) A short bibliography
Please Note: You should not have presented your paper elsewhere.
Final decisions should be made by December 3, 2002.
My contact info is:
Paul MacArthur
Assistant Professor
Radio Television Department
Sam Houston State University
Box 2207
Huntsville, TX 77341
(936) 294-1344
rtf_pjm@shsu.edu
If you have any friends/colleagues/students who might be interested
the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association Conference, please forward this email to them..
Looking for more info? Go to: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~swpca/
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Paul J. MacArthur
Radio Chair
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
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-- Paul MacArthur Ph: (936) 294-1344 Assistant Professor Radio Television Department Fx. (936) 294-1888 Sam Houston State University Box 2207 Communications Building Room 123 Huntsville, TX 77341-0-
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