UPDATE: (dis)junctions: Rock Nouveau (grad) (3/10/03; 4/11/03-4/12/03)

(This specific deadline has been pushed back to any interested party.)

(dis)junctions: morphing the written word (april 11-12, 2003)
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/index1.html

Rock Nouveau: Beck, Radiohead and Cafe Tacuba

While many in the editing rooms of Rolling Stone and Spin have already
pronounced the "death" of rock music for some time, the only death has has
been of its boundaries. Rock music has managed to resurface along the most
unlikely of geographical realms: Sigur Ros (Iceland), Cafe Tacuba (Mexico),
the Hives (Sweden), God Speed You Black Emperor!? (Quebec), and most notably
with Radiohead (England). They have all made esteemed contributions to this
soundscape, re-fretting a genre that was adrift among the Britney Spears Pop
Invasion of the 1990's. From the Alt-Rock of Brazil to the icy fugues of
Iceland, Rock has thrived along the geographical fringes, bringing along
with it, a commentary about the false trappings of "globalisms". What is
this new music? What are the implications of protest and how can they be
viewed on album covers?

We are looking for papers dealing with concepts of consumerism and political
protest in or among transnational soundscapes. Please send your
abstracts/papers to withsecretnoise_at_yahoo.com. For more information, please
refer to CFP: Humanities: morphing the written word.

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(dis)junctions: morphing the written word
UC-Riverside's Tenth Annual Humanities Conference

Co-chairs: Cara Cardinale & Matthew Snyder
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