CFP ECAS 2019 in Edinburgh

We invite papers in English or French to our panel

"Boomerangs and Roots" - Rumba, Rap and Reggae as African or Afrodiasporic musics?

Since the early 20th Century, popular music from the Americas is present in many African cities. African musicians used and use it as source of inspiration and performed Cuban, Jamaican, US American and other songs. Some observers criticized the effects of this musical encounter in Africa as a rupture with tradition, as a sign of lacking pride in and loss of knowledge of local musical genres. Only recently, academics and other observers preferred to celebrate it as self-conscious appropriation or nostrification, appreciating the change, but still claiming a clear-cut division between African and Western genres. Others however, among them many African urban musicians, offered a different interpretation stressing the African 'roots' of many so-called occidental popular music genres, focusing on connections rather that disruptions. Thus, African musicians claimed African origins of the rumba, the blues, reggae, rap, or house music. Interestingly, with the arrival of each new style these debates return.

This panel invites scholars to discuss how they address the tension between the different claims of either a clear-cut division or else an ongoing transatlantic hybridization of musical styles. We want to ask why this claim of transatlantic musical 'kinship' is so important to the actors involved. How do we address local claims of 'ownership' of global genres? How do we respond to competing claims of ownership of music? Should scholars contribute to a dialogue on origins, which is obviously so important to many actors?

Deadline is January 21st!

More information on the Panel:

https://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2019/conferencesuite.php/panels/7608

Please propose your paper here:

https://ecasconference.org/2019/cfp

Kind regards

Ibrahima Wane & Hauke Dorsch



Dr. Hauke Dorsch

AMA African Music Archives / Archiv für die Musik Afrikas
Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien
Forum Universitatis 6 Rm 01-673
Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
55099 Mainz
Germany
Tel.: +49-(0)61313923349
Fax: +49-(0)61313923730
http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/332.php



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Betreff: CFP Sport Im/mobilities DGSKA 2019

Call for papers



‘Sport, mobility and (the end of) negotiations of belonging’

Conveners: Dominik Schieder (University of Siegen) and Christian Ungruhe
(Aarhus University)



Bi-annual conference of the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA) in
Konstanz, 29 September - 2 October 2019:

https://www.dgska.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/CfP.pdf (in English from
p.3)

Deadline: 15 February 2019



Please submit proposals (a long abstract of max. 1.200 characters incl.
spaces and a short version of max. 300 characters incl. spaces) to:
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Sport offers anthropologists a to date little explored lens to ponder
societal (trans-) formations in the Global South and beyond. Its analytical
value becomes particularly evident, if we take into consideration how sport
intersects with the triangular – i.e. spatial, temporal and socio-cultural –
dimensions of human mobility. Understood in such a broad and encompassing
way, the sport-mobility-nexus can connote various phenomena, ranging from
societal integration, labor migration, life course dynamics (e.g. aging and
health) and identity constructions (e.g. youth and lifestyle sports), to
emerging middle class-related body practices. What these diverse phenomena
have in common is that they demand social actors to most often negotiate
multiple ways of belonging (e.g. citizenship, class, ethnicity, family,
gender or professionalism) within one single arena. In this context, sport
is frequently praised for its potential, such as to ease immigrant
inclusion, to offer escape routes from poverty for athletes originating in
the Global South and, more generally, to facilitate upward economic
mobility.

Yet, social negotiations within the sport-mobility-arena equally reveal how
intersecting ways of belonging are conflict-laden or potentially
irreconcilable, leading in extreme cases to the termination of social
negotiations. While, for example, transnationally-mobile athletes from the
Global South are required to navigate conflicting norms and values related
to kin expectations and modern sport professionalism and consequently
develop strategies to control or circumvent communal obligations, new
leisure time activities among a rising African middle class fuel
renegotiations of social distinction and potentially lead to a suspension of
communication and interaction between people of various social spheres.
Similarly, the recent case of Mesut Özil’s resignation from the German
national football team has revealed how different perceptions of national
belonging and societal integration may become non-negotiable altogether.

Drawing inspiration from these examples, we invite ethnographically-driven
papers which investigate the practices and discourses underlying
negotiations of particular modes of social belonging and the potential
closure of these negotiations, in order to scrutinize the opportunities and
restrictions intrinsic to sport-related mobility.







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