[ANPPOM-L] CFP: IASPM-US Branch

[Carlos Palombini]

Call for Papers
International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch
2006 Conference

Reconfiguring, Relocating, Rediscovering

February 15-18, 2006, Murfreesboro/Nashville, Tennessee
Deadline for Submissions:  October 15, 2005

The conference organizers welcome proposals for papers, panels, or
roundtables on any aspect of popular music. We are, however, especially
interested in submissions that engage with popular music as it relates
to the multiple and intersecting technologies, identities, and
geographies of the early 21st century. Papers that re-examine
methodological, analytical, theoretical, and pedagogical terrain and/or
that re/visit little explored genres, artists, geographical regions,
social differences, and/or identities are encouraged.  We are aiming for
as broad a representation of  disciplinary and interdisciplinary
perspectives as possible and hope for a conference that will bring
emerging perspectives on the study of popular music into dialogue. We
would be especially interested in proposals that deal with:
      *Local/Global musics, present and past: how do we understand
globalization (including notions of "the local") in the aesthetics and
practices of contemporary popular musics? How can we re-interpret the
history of popular musics in terms of the notion of globalization?
      *Popular Music and Social Difference: how are scholars thinking
about popular music and issues of race and ethnicity (including
whiteness), sexuality (including Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
and/or queer studies of popular music), gender (including
masculinities), ability/disability?  How do the intersection of these
issues shape popular music?
       *New Media and Other Technologies:  trends in online music
distribution, digital recording, intertextuality and music "mash-ups,"
and other expressions of music produced, distributed, and consumed using
networks, computers, and other new media.
       *Popular Music in the Classroom:  connections between theories of
   popular music and student learning, including accepted and innovative
ways to teach popular music history, the pedagogical uses of popular
music in classes across the disciplines, ideas and evaluations of
popular music curricula, strategies for making popular music an
established element of music education at both K-12 and college levels,
or how popular music is or might be integrated into or taught alongside
Western art music and/or non-Western musics.

We would especially encourage proposals for papers, panels, and
roundtables that deal
with aspects of the Nashville music scene(s) and, given that 2006 is the
25th anniversary of MTV, we would welcome proposals on any aspect of the
network, especially its globalizing strategies and local music
television resistance.

Proposals can be submitted online at
http://www.iaspm-us.net/conferences/. Proposals will be read blind by
the program committee. Proposals for individual papers and roundtables
should be no longer than 300 words.  Proposals for panels should include
an abstract of no more than 300 words for the panel as a whole, as well
as abstracts of no more than 300 words for each paper proposed for the
panel. The program committee reserves the right to accept a panel but
reject an individual paper on that panel.

For questions about the conference, contact Susan Fast, Program
Committee Chair at 2006conference em iaspm-us.net.  Submission deadline:
October 15, 2005.

--
Susan Fast, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Music
School of the Arts
McMaster University
1280 Main St. W
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M2
(905) 525-9140 ext. 23670
fastfs em mcmaster.ca

-- 
carlos palombini
diretor
centro de pesquisa em música contemporânea
universidade federal de minas gerais
cpmc-ufmg
<palombini em terra.com.br>