[AMS-announce] CFP: Heavy Metal and Gender, University of Music, Cologne, Oct 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

CFP: HEAVY METAL AND GENDER

An international conference, held on Thursday 8th - Saturday 10th October 2009
at the University of Music Cologne / Hochschule für Musik Köln, Germany

The 40 years old heavy metal genre offers a wide range of questions about gender constructions in musical culture. The field is wide and the challenge is: How exactly are heavy metal and gender related?

The goal of the conference is to discuss issues of heavy metal and gender from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. It aims at examining a broad variety of periods, places and subgenres of heavy metal culture and any of its parts including song structures, lyrics, performance practices, visual representations, positions of musicians and fans, local and global scenes, critical and scholarly discourse.

It will be the first scholarly conference on heavy metal in Germany and the first metal conference world-wide, which focuses on issues of gender.

Call for Papers

We welcome contributions from the broadest spectrum: Musicology, Gender studies, Cultural studies, Sociology, Literary studies, Media studies etc.
The conference language is English.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to us by Friday 31st October 2008.
Kindly submit abstracts to:

Dr. Florian Heesch, History|Herstory, University of Music Cologne, Email: heesch(at)mhs-koeln.de
We plan to publish the conference proceedings in the series Musik-Kultur-Gender (Böhlau-Verlag, Köln).

Please visit our website: www.historyherstory.de