CALL FOR PAPERS
Jazz, atonal music, noise
A Panel Discussion at INSCRIPTIONS '04: an Arts and Culture Conference and
Festival
at Eastern Mediterranean University
in Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
June 3rd- 4th, 2004, organized by the Department of English Literature and
the Humanities
The seventh annual Literature and Humanities Conference will be held at
Eastern Mediterranean University under the heading Inscriptions '04 and will
take place at the university and environs between June 3rd - 4th, 2004. In
conjunction with a wide selection of music, performance and film events,
discussion-friendly papers are being solicited for our symposium. Although
we will be publishing selected presentations from Inscriptions '04, we
encourage participants to move away from the standard prewritten, "finished
paper" format, towards a more open-ended presentation, which will provoke
and contribute to a genuine exchange of research and ideas during the panel
sessions. Our aim is to create a forum and publishing venue for inspiring
work in progress, where the exchange of ideas with fellow academics
participating in the conference will contribute to the final form of
participants' work.
With this in mind, we invite papers and/or presentations that examine the
current status of critical thinking on jazz and on the notions of atonal
music and noise.
Possible topics might include but are not limited to:
- noise as a cultural phenomenon
- jazz as musical interstice
- jazzing gender
- beat jazz/bop poetics: Kerouac, Ginsberg and the future of bop
rhythms
- transitions from mechanical to technological noise
- conventional/improvisational jazz
- the politics of fusion.
- the noise of public and private spaces in the twenty-first
century
- rap, scat, human beatbox
- Bjork, Tori Amos: tonality, noise and the female solo singer
- punk rock, hip-hop, speed metal, misfit noise
- constructions of identity through music
- language as noise
- Latin vs. Germanic: The tonality of language
- Marilyn Monroe/Marilyn Manson
- blue sounds: The poetry of Langston Hughes
- reassessing Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music
- jazz in Harlem renaissance literature
- noise and native American culture
- the role of noise in definitions of high, low and popular
culture
- the mobile phone ring-tone symphony
- gendered noise
- tonality and lyrical meaning
- the Queen's jubilee and the spectre of Johnny Rotten
- reassessment of the term "Beat"
- the role of noise in cultural spectacle, including football
matches, tennis, cricket, the theatre and art exhibition
Papers are also welcomed on individual artists. Suggestions:
Nina Simone
Shirley Bassey
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Sarah Vaughan
Janis Joplin
Thelonius Monk
Wynton Marsalis
Bird
Miles Davis
Frank Sinatra
Louis Armstrong
Sex Pistols
Nirvana
Primal Scream
Metallica
Philip Glass
John Cage
Pierre Boulez
Alban Berg
Arnold Schoenberg
Anton von Webern
Edgard Varèse
George Crumb
Please send 250 word abstracts by 31st January, 2004 to:
rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr or robert.dalonzo@emu.edu.tr
and please visit http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/index_conference.html
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