*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*IASPM-US 2018 Annual Conference*
*Going To The Country: Pastoral-National-Musical*
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music-United States
Branch invites submissions for its 2018 conference, which will take place
March 8-11, 2018, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. All
topics pertaining to popular music, broadly defined, including works,
practices, and styles not explicitly created for mass reproduction, will be
considered. The theme for the 2018 conference is “Going to the Country,”
and we encourage submitters to incorporate this theme into their work.
The concept of “country” is a wide one, including and provoking claims and
understandings ranging from the pastoral to the national, encompassing
issues of class, race, agrarianism, industrialization, geography, politics,
boundaries, terrain, statehood, property, empire, privilege, sanctuary, and
other identifying factors, meanings, and mechanisms. We seek to encourage
thought and research on these and the many other ways in which music
represents, claims, draws on, creates or otherwise interacts with “country.”
Topics of thematic and local interest might include:
• country music and difference: race, gender, the "new Latino South"
• country as nation: war, nationalism, politics, migration and immigration
• country as pastoral, agrarian, rural, religious or spiritual
We also encourage proposals that focus on the historical, cultural, and
musical life of Nashville.
*IASPM-US is a multidisciplinary organization, and invites proposals from
and across all fields of scholarly inquiry. Conference proposals from
non-academics, including teachers, museum and archive professionals,
musicians and music professionals, and independent scholars, are
encouraged. IASPM-US is a friendly conference for students at all levels.*
The Program Committee welcomes proposals for individual papers, panels,
performances, and roundtables.
• *Individual paper proposals* should be emailed in the form of a 250 word
abstract with title and contact information.
• *Panels* (groups of 3-4 papers): proposals must include 250 word
abstracts for the panel, as well as each presenter in the panel, with
contact information for each presenter.
• *Performances* (including ensemble and spoken word): proposals must
include a 250 word abstract for the performance. Performers are responsible
for their own equipment needs, IASPM cannot be responsible for equipment
for any performance.
• *Roundtables* (moderated conversations with 4-6 members): proposals
require a single 250 word abstract and a list of roundtables members with
contact information.
Proposals should be submitted to the program chair, Amber
Clifford-Napoleone, via email to [log in to unmask] by *midnight on Sunday,
October 1*. Submissions may be sent as .docx, .odt, or .pdf files, or in
the body of an email. *Please write “IASPM 2018 Submission” in the subject
line of your email. No extensions will be granted.* We anticipate that
results of the abstract selection process will be send out on or around
December 1, 2017. Questions should be addressed to Amber R.
Clifford-Napoleone, [log in to unmask]
View IASPM-US's conference site here
<http://iaspm-us.net/2018-iaspm-us-conference/>; call is also available as
a flyer in PDF form.
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