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Call for papers
Association of American Geographers Annual Conference
March 4-8 2003, New Orleans.
Session on:
Music, Ethnicity and Identity
Convenors : George Carney, John Gold and George Revill.
The rich cultural heritage of New Orleans is marked by a diversity of
musical styles with their roots in histories of migration and
oppression. Music is an important medium marking cultural
distinctiveness, and participating in the making of cultural hybridity.
The tension between purity and fusion, authenticity and assemblage are
central to its cultural politics. Musical styles forged in the deep
South, Blues, Jazz, Gospel, Cajun and Zydeco, for example, are sharply
politicised around issues of identity, race and culture yet are
undeniably the products of cultural fusion and conflict.
The themes that New Orleans symbolises in musical history also apply
more widely. The activation of social memory is integral to the
significance of cultural materials within contemporary society. In this
session we would like to invite papers that consider music as a dynamic
force for political, social and cultural memory. We therefore invite
papers that deal with New Orleans specifically with New Orleans and the
South or about other areas that give comparative insight into issues of
music, ethnicity and identity in music.
Themes for papers include the following:
* Music and hybridity
* Music and imperialism
* Music and orientalism
* Music and cultural exchange.
* Memory and its role in race identity
* Theorising tone and sound as memory
* Race identity and the legacy of folk
* The race politics of Ragga in the contemporary music market.
* Blue Grass and white America
* The black history of American Country
* Music and the politics of race in Britain in the 21st century
Please send abstracts of 200-250 words to George Revill -
[log in to unmask] or George Carney – [log in to unmask] by 21st
August 2002.
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