SASA
The Southern American Studies Association
CALL FOR PAPERS
SOUTHERN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION MEETING (SASA)
Blues Tunes / Blues Texts: Music, Cultures, and Literature in the Global South
Joint meeting with the 5th Annual Living Blues Symposium
in Oxford, MS at the University of Mississippi
February 14 - 18, 2007
This conference offers the unique opportunity of a truly interdisciplinary meeting that brings together scholars of literature, culture, and music with musicians, radio industry insiders, and fans of the blues. The conference will consider ways in which literature and music shape the living cultures of the global, post-regional South. Topics include musical, cultural, and literary articulations of diverse populations living in the U.S. South, the Caribbean, Africa, and the hemispheric South.
Keynote address by
Farah Griffin, Columbia University
Reading by
Wanda Coleman, Poet, Journalist and Writer
In addition to academic discussions and keynotes, this conference will feature film screenings, audience jam sessions, featured blues performers, and the production of the live radio show “Thacker Mountain Radio.” There is also an opportunity for a trip through the Mississippi Delta that features stops at famous blues sites and a chance to hear the blues where it originated.
SASA is inviting paper proposals or complete panel proposals by
December 20, 2006
Possible topics relating to the conference theme include: musical extensions to and from the U.S. South; African music, African legacies and retentions in the New World; African-American spirituals, blues, hip-hop, rap, patterns of call and response, the blues poetic; music in the colonies; slave musicians; anti-slavery songs; Fisk Jubilee Singers, ragtime, rock and roll, Elvis; jazz, bebop, soul, the Sacred Harp; Native American music, instruments, and influence; questions of pedagogy and power; music in the literature classroom; musical intersections of race, class and gender; divas; the marketing of music, culture and ethnicity, cross-cultural influences in music and literature; the effects of globalization and transculturation on markets, performers, audiences and readers; pain and pleasure and more. As always, however, any proposal in American Studies will be considered.
If you would like to join the SASA, please go to: http://www.asa.press.jhu.edu/membership.html
If you are already a member of SASA and would like to submit a paper or panel proposal, please contact Annette Trefzer, Department of English, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677; or mailto:atrefzer@olemiss.edu. For more information about the 2007 SASA conference, visit: http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/sasa
SOUTHERN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION MEETING (SASA)
Blues Tunes / Blues Texts: Music, Cultures, and Literature in the Global South
Joint meeting with the 5th Annual Living Blues Symposium
in Oxford, MS at the University of Mississippi
February 14 - 18, 2007
Farah Griffin, Columbia University
Reading by
Wanda Coleman, Poet, Journalist and Writer
December 20, 2006