2019 IASPM-US Conference Call for Papers
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music-United States invites proposals for its 2019 conference. The meeting, which will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 7-10, 2019, will feature the theme “Musical Cities: Music, Historiography, and Myth.” We welcome proposals for individual papers and panels (up to four individuals) on any aspect of popular music, especially proposals on the musical cultures of New Orleans; music in and of the global and local South; and music and race and resistance.
Subtopics might include
- Cities, music, and race
- Musical legends and apocrypha
- Specific cities as places of musical genre origin
- Space and place in music-making
- New Orleans as a site of resistance, rebuilding, reconstruction, and gentrification
- Intersectionality in musical cultures
- Music and historiography in the context of global and local Souths
- Religion and spirituality in musical cultures
IASPM-US is an interdisciplinary organization and is eager to include work not just from ethno/musicologists and other music scholars, but also work from a wide variety of viewpoints, including those of scholars of race, religion, sexuality, gender, geography, folklore, history (including archaeology, military history, oral history, public history, intellectual history, micro history and all other disciplines), ethnography, comparative literature, Francophone and Hispanophone studies, Latin America, law, education, esotericism, area studies, and other relevant areas. This year’s program committee consists of… read more