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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, George Revill wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Apologies for Cross Postings. Please forward as necessary.
>
> 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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