[ecrea] CFP for Sampling Across the Spectrum

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sampling Across the Spectrum

 We invite proposals for contributions to an anthology focused on sampling as a logic of exchange between audio-visual media.  While some recent scholarship has addressed sampling as a practice within popular music and popular culture primarily in relation to copyright, this book will be the first of its kind: a critical study of sampling and remixing across the audio-visual spectrum.  Of special interest here are works that bring together both audio and visual sampling: music that samples film and television; film and television soundtracks that deploy sampling and remixing; films and videos that incorporate a “musical” looping of imagery; new media texts and practices that draw on sampled material; and other provocative variations.  We are interested in sampling practices that interconnect diverse media, but also that intervene in popular culture from unconventional or transgressive perspectives.  To this end we seek investigations that extend the conceptual boundaries of sampling by emphasizing its intermedial dimensions, as well as its more marginal applications.  This book aims to put into conversation examples of sampling from a wide variety of historical and contemporary, global and local contexts.  Both Oxford University Press and Duke University Press have expressed interest in a preliminary proposal for this project.

We welcome proposals from a variety of academic disciplines.  Topics might include, but are not limited to:
·        the pre-history of sampling as an alternative aesthetic strategy in a variety of pre-digital contexts such as collage, montage, found footage, cut-up writing, found sound, pop art, and punk
·        sampling as a means of repurposing medium-specific content across the media spectrum (for instance film samples in electronic music, the use of a hip hop sampling aesthetic to structure film and video)
·        sampling and remixing as logics of exchange between mainstream and underground culture
·        transnational sampling practices that link global and local media
·        digital sampling and the new avant-garde
·        sampling as pedagogy
·        sampling as fan activity within the context of “convergence culture”
·        the “reanimation” of forgotten “old” media properties through sampling/remixing in new media contexts

For consideration, please submit a brief 500 to 800 word prospectus and CV to David Laderman ((laderman /at/ smccd.edu)) and Laurel Westrup ((laurel_westrup /at/ emerson.edu)) no later than April 1, 2011.

 		 	   		



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