[AMS-announce] CFP: IASPM Canada and IASPM-US 2007 Joint Conference: Boundaries, Blockades and Bridges

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IASPM Canada and IASPM-US 2007 Joint Conference:

Boundaries, Blockades and Bridges

Northeastern University
April 26-29, 2007

Boston, Massachusetts

Popular music has always maintained a dialogue with political and social
developments, raising awareness, spurring debate, and even directing events
throughout history. To many minds, it is this active and engaged role that
makes popular music vital and worthy of serious study. The 2007 special
joint meeting of IASPM Canada and IASPM-US hinges on ideas of boundaries,
blockades and bridges. The conference programme committee invites proposals
relating to these themes, as well as proposals for papers, panels, or
roundtables on any aspect of popular music.

Possible paper topics might address questions such as the following:

In an age of national, international, and global crises, what roles do (or
can) popular musics play?
What role does music play in breaking down borders, and in reinforcing them?
Do genre categories such as "world music" enable musicians or ghettoize
them?
When a classical recording sells in the multi millions, does it become
popular music?
How does popular music provide a bridge between online and off-line
communities?
Do History of Rock'n'Roll classes mean that popular music has at last
arrived in the academic world, or do these classes serve merely to fund the
study of "serious" music?
Even within the world of popular music scholarship, are some genres
considered more worthy than others?

Proposals will be read blind by the program committee, which consists of:
Holly Everett (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Ellie Hisama (Columbia
University), David Todd Lawrence (University of St. Thomas), Tom McCourt
(Fordham University), Paul Théberge (Carleton University), and Jacqueline
Warwick (Dalhousie University).

Proposals must be submitted online at
http://www.iaspm-us.net/conferences/2007/proposal_procedures.php

 Proposals for individual papers and roundtables should be no longer than
300 words. Proposals for panels should include an abstract of no more than
300 words for the panel as a whole, as well as abstracts of no more than 300
words for each paper proposed for the panel. The program committee reserves
the right to accept a panel but reject an individual paper on that panel.
For questions about the conference, contact Jacqueline Warwick, Program

Committee Chair, at 2007conference at iaspm-us.net

Submission deadline: 11:59 PST November 1, 2006.