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BLACK MUSIC CULTURE AREA
38th and 30th Annual Joint Meeting of PCA/ACA
San Francisco Marriott Hotel
San Francisco, California
March 19-22, 2008
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: November 30, 2007
GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS/PANELS: The Black Music Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association invites interested scholars to submit paper abstracts,
papers, or panel/roundtable proposals on the following sub-areas of black music culture:
(1) Black Diasporan Music (Africa, Caribbean, Europe, Asia, etc.)
(2) Spirituals and Gospel
(3) Jazz and Blues
(4) Popular and Contemporary
(5) Rap Music
(6) Contemporary “Concert” Music
(7) Philosophy and Practice
SPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS/PANELS: The Black Music Culture Area is especially interested in receiving proposals regarding the role of music and other aspects
in Hip Hop Culture. The Co-Chairs welcome submissions in the following areas that include, but are not limited to, hip hop history and historiography;
hip hop, authenticity, and identity; hip hop time, space and place; hip hop and the politics of race, class, gender, and age;
hip hop, politics, and resistance; aesthetics of hip hop composition; hip hop language and linguistics; hip hop, religion,
and theology; hip hop, economics, and culture industries; technology, orality, and black cultural practice in rap music; hip
hop audiences; hip hop and legal system; hip hop gesture and dance; hip hop, visual art, and photography; hip hop literature;
hip hop and radio; hip hop film; and hip hop genre and convention.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please submit the following information via e-mail with attachments in Microsoft Word or within an e-mail message:
- CONTACT INFORMATION (of each author/participant): Name, Affiliation, Address, E-Mail Address
- ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP*: PCA or ACA
- PROPOSAL SUB-AREA: Jazz and Blues; Spirituals and Gospel; Rap Music; Contemporary “Concert” Music; Black Diasporan Music;
Popular and Contemporary; or Philosophy and Practice
- 100-250-WORD PAPER ABSTRACT/PANEL ABSTRACT**: If you are submitting a panel proposal, please include contact information for
all participants.
- 1-page CV or RÉSUMÉ
NOTE: Audiovisual equipment has not been finalized, but the PCA/ACA expects to make available DVD players & monitors (with
VGA cables). Presenters may bring personal laptops, Power Point software, or other software for their presentations. Mac users
should bring applicable adaptors, etc. Presenters are free to make arrangements with the hotel for any special audio-visual
equipment that the PCA/ACA does not supply (but be advised that hotel equipment rental is costly).
SEND TO ALL PROPOSALS TO:
Dr. William Banfield, Black Music Culture Area Co-Chair
Department of Liberal Arts
1140 Boylston Street, MS-FB369
Berklee College of Music
Boston, Massachusetts 02215-3693
wbanfield@berklee.edu
and
Dr. Angela Nelson, Black Music Culture Area Co-Chair
Department of Popular Culture
108 Popular Culture Building
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0190
anelson@bgsu.edu
*All presenters must be members of PCA or ACA and must pre-register for the conference by January 1, 2008, to ensure inclusion in the 2008 conference program. In addition, no one
may present more than one paper at the conference.
**Submit your proposal to one area. Presenters will only be permitted to present one paper at the conference.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
For further information about the joint annual meeting, membership, and registration, please visit the PCA/ACA website at: http://www.pcaaca.org.
For more information about the Black Music Culture Area, visit “Conferences and Institutes” at: <http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/popc/>
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