[ecrea] Popular Music and Society Special Issue CFP

> POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Special Issue:
> Michael Jackson: Musical Subjectivities
>
> Edited by Susan Fast and Stan Hawkins
>
> Submissions are invited for a special edition of Popular Music and 
> Society that examines constructions of subjectivity in Michael 
> Jackson's music, with a focus on gender, sexuality, age, disability, 
> and race. Contributors are invited to address ways in which 
> Jackson's vocality, grooves, rhythmic invention, songwriting, 
> conformity with and/or irreconcilability of generic categories, 
> particular songs, song categories (such as ballads) or albums, 
> record production, use of technology, and live or mediated 
> performance work to produce his own, often spectacularized, 
> subjectivities, as well as those of his listeners.  We are 
> interested in drawing together articles that engage in an 
> interdisciplinary manner the myriad ways in which subjectivity is 
> constructed in Jackson's work: narratives of desire, healing, 
> redemption, anger, violence, celebrity; engagement with world 
> politics, charity; intergenerational relationships; the spectacular 
> body in performance; illness as it impacted his music and 
> performance; freakishness/the fantastic; challenges to hegemonic 
> constructions of race, masculinity, sexuality, gender--to name only 
> a few possibilities.  Although we welcome contributions that employ 
> a broad range of methodologies, including the development of new 
> methodologies for the analysis of popular music, we intend that 
> these essays address musical sound and sound related to text 
> (lyrics), image(s), and dance directly.  While the complexity, 
> ambiguity, and irreconcilability of Jackson's subjectivity/ies have 
> been covered exhaustively, mainly by the mass media, only a few 
> scholarly essays have made significant inroads to understanding 
> these phenomena; moreover, none of these has addressed musical sound 
> in detail.  We therefore see the need for rigorous scholarship into 
> Jackson's creative output, with specific emphasis on musical sound, 
> the place where he, himself, arguably commented most explicitly upon 
> the matters referred to above.  Our vision is that this issue will 
> include essays that range over Jackson's long career, from his time 
> with the Jackson 5 through his last studio album, Invincible, and 
> final live performances, perhaps including the forthcoming film 
> documenting preparation for his This Is It tour.
>
> Essays of 6,000-8,000 words are due by September 2010.  Essays will 
> be peer-reviewed.  Inquiries regarding potential essay topics and 
> their suitability for inclusion are welcome.  Please include your 
> professional/academic affiliations, a postal address, and preferred 
> email contact with your essay; for purposes of blind peer-review, 
> please do not include your name within the body of the essay.
>
> Please address all communications to: Susan Fast (McMaster 
> University, Canada) (fastfs /at/ mcmaster.ca) or Stan Hawkins (University 
> of Oslo) (e.s.hawkins /at/ imv.uio.no)
>
> --
> Susan Fast
> Professor
> Department of English and Cultural Studies
> McMaster University
> CNH 310
> Hamilton, Ontario
> Canada L8S 4L9
> (905) 525 9140 ext. 23670
> email:  (fastfs /at/ mcmaster.ca)

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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