[eccr] Call for Submissions - Dancehall Culture

>CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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>Jamaican Dancehall Culture: The Reader
>Bibi Bakare-Yusuf and Sonjah Stanley Niaah (Eds.)
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>What is Dancehall? Is it a social movement? A space? A style? An
>attitude? A musical genre? A dance movement? A way of life?  In the
>past two decades, Dancehall has become one of the most influential
>Jamaican cultural exports since Reggae.  It has had an impact on many
>popular cultural styles beyond Jamaica: musical genres such as Hip Hop,
>Trip Hop, Jungle, Reggaeton, the South African Kwaito, West African
>music such as Fuji an! d Ma kossa; international catwalk fashion, films,
>gestural patterns and drinks.
>
>The culture has received some attention over the last decade, but there
>are still many voids in the research. We welcome papers that raise
>historical, cultural, methodological and theoretical questions to
>address these voids from an interdisciplinary perspective. We are
>interested in a broad range of potential topics and methodologies,
>including but not limited to, lyrical content analysis, socio-economic
>and political contexts of music production, and the role of women as
>producers, contributors and consume! rs o f the culture. We invite
>submissions of previously published and original papers for a critical
>reader on Jamaican Dancehall culture. Specific themes include:
>
>1.      Cinematic and media representations
>2.      Urban space and experience
>3.      Embodiment and performance
>4.      Sexual politics and aesthetics
>5.      Gender relations
>6.      Leisure and pleasure
>7.      Race and class relations
>8.      Sound / musical scapes
>9.      Adornment and style
>10. &n!
>bsp;  ;  Impact on other sub/popular cultural styles
>11.     Historical/cultural antecedents
>12.     Ritual /celebration space
>
>A one page abstract should be sent by February 15, 2005 and a 5000 ?
>7000 word paper complete with abstract and a short biography should be
>sent by June 15, 2005 via email to:
>
>Dr. Bibi Bakare-Yusuf:
>Email: 
>bibi@<mailto:(bakareweate.comsonjah.stanley /at/ uwimona.edu.jm)>bakareweate.com
>
>Dr. Sonjah Stanley Niaah
>
>Email: <mailto:(sonjah.stanley /at/ uwimona.edu.jm)>(sonjah.stanley /at/ uwimona.edu.jm)

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