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Call for Papers
Mediating Jazz:
26-27 November 2009
An international conference hosted by the Popular Music Research Centre,
University of Salford.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Krin Gabbard (SUNY), author of Hotter Than That:
The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture, Black Magic: White Hollywood and
African American Culture, and Jammin’ at the Margins: Jazz and the American
Cinema
Mediating Jazz is a two-day multi-disciplinary conference that brings
together the leading researchers in the field of New Jazz Studies. The
conference itself will comprise four key strands, each of which addresses
the overarching theme of mediation in jazz:
1. Jazz and the Media
We wish to explore the way in which media representation impacts on jazz
discourse. The review panel will welcome papers that examine the way in
which jazz is represented through various media from Hollywood film to
television documentary, sleeve notes to journalism.
2. Performance and the Body
Musicians often promote the performance of jazz as an unmediated experience.
We invite papers that interrogate this assumption, exploring the
relationship between performance and different types of mediation. This
could include discussions of jazz as a transcendent art or a gendered
construct, as well as examining the mythologies of improvisation,
musicianship and the ‘jazz life’, and the codification of performance practice.
3. Politics and Identity
Within the jazz mainstream, the radical politics of the 1960s has arguably
been replaced with a sense of homogenised culture, devoid of explicit race
and class issues. This strand explores the role mediation plays in the
growth and development of identities alongside the promotion/subversion of
political messages.
4. Jazz Cultures and Narratives
This strand explores jazz as both narrative trope and changing cultural
signifier. We welcome papers that explore the concept of jazz from a range
of disciplinary perspectives, encouraging a discursive approach to the
cultural study of jazz.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to Dr Tony Whyton
([log in to unmask]) by Wednesday 27 May 2009.
Review panel: Dr Tony Whyton (Salford), Dr Nicholas Gebhardt (Lancaster), Dr
Catherine Tackley (Open University) and Professor George McKay (Salford)
March 2009
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