UPDATE: Folk & Protest Music; 2004 Southwest/Texas Popular =
Culture/American Culture Associations, San Antonio, April 7-10, 2004
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Deadline extended to December 1: Call for Papers: Folk & Protest Music
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2004 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associations
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25th Annual Conference, held in conjunction with the National Popular =
Culture/American Culture Associations Conference
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April 7-10, 2004
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The 2004 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will meet in San Antonio, Texas, at =
the beautiful San Antonio Marriott River Center Hotel, on the Riverwalk. =
Join us this year, as a returning or first-time participant, as we =
celebrate a quarter-century of this regional popular culture conference. =
For further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, =
hotel, registration, tours, etc.) please visit =
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~swpca
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Now accepting proposals for Folk and Protest Music in the Music Area, a =
well-represented area with outstanding participants in years past. We =
welcome proposals on many aspects types of protest music and their role =
in American popular culture. Prospective topics include:
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* Genres opposed to dominant political, economic, or nationalist =
paradigms, particularly associated with specific social movements: =
Federalism, States=92 Rights, Abolition, Temperance, Populism, labor =
unions, Civil Rights, anti-war, etc
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* Musics created or appropriated in association with expected or =
self-identified minorities: persons of color, LGBT, women, etc.
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* Protest music as part of immigrant communities
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* The mechanisms, support networks, economics, and audience =
demographics of music within protest movements=20
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* Readings of genres as =93protest=94 music which are not =
commonly so-identified
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Particular interest/emphasis upon=20
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* Under-examined historical genres or periods of protest music =
(especially outside the 20th century)
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* Protest music as a tool of enculturation or re-affiliation
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* Indigenous musics originating or appropriated as =93protest=94 =
musics
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Special topics include:
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* Protest music in or as part of Hispanic culture
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* Protest music in the Southwest
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Proposals should include current curriculum vitae or r=E9sum=E9 (3-page =
maximum) and a 250 word abstract, including name, institutional =
affiliation if any, and working title.=20
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Extended submission deadline is December 1. The registration deadline is =
January 1, 2004. All participants must register by that date or will =
not be able to present or appear in the program.
Please direct submissions or inquiries in this area to Chris Smith at =
the email or physical addresses below.=20
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Dr Christopher Smith
Vernacular Music Center
Department of Music History and Literature
School of Music MS 2033
Texas Tech University=20
Lubbock, TX 79409
806.742.2270 x249
christopher.smith@ttu.edu
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