[ANPPOM-L] CFP: Sound and Silence in the Space Between (1914-1945)

[Carlos Palombini]

Submissions requested for the 11th annual conference of The Space Between
Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, to be held at the University of
Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, June 11-13, 2009 (see also
http://www.spacebetweensociety.org/SBSConference.html).

>From the growl of automobile and airplane engines and the whir of electric
appliances to fascism's oppressive silences, the years between 1914 and 1945
witnessed a variety of new sounds and silences. This interdisciplinary
conference invites historians and critics of literature, art, music, film,
dance, and popular culture to explore the myriad sounds and silences of the
interwar period. Possible topics include: The impact of the telegraph,
telephone, radio, and sound film on modern subjectivity and expression . The
new sounds of technology and war . The enforced silencing of political and
cultural critique . The sounds of political and social protest . Silence as
spirituality, as resistance, as consent . The sounds of previously
marginalized or disenfranchised voices . The incorporation of sound and
noise into literature and art . The rising awareness of sound in shaping
everyday experience . The breakdown of classical tonality and the rise of
new tonal structures.

Please send 300-word abstract and one-page CV to Erika Doss (doss.2 at nd.edu).
Deadline for submission: December 15, 2008.

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carlos palombini
<cpalombini em gmail.com>

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