[ecrea] CFP - Ladies and Gentlemen: Miss Grace Jones

Ladies and Gentlemen: Miss Grace Jones
A symposium at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, 27-28 
April 2017

Call for Papers

Grace Jones’ contributions to multiple fields of culture over more than 
forty years – especially music, performance, fashion, and film – have 
established her as an iconic figure. To mark the 40th anniversary of her 
debut album, Portfolio, the University of Edinburgh is holding a two-day 
symposium on Jones’ diverse range of work and its enduring significance 
and influence.

We invite 20-minute paper contributions (or pre-constituted, 
three-speaker panels) on any aspects of Grace Jones’ career. Possible 
topics for discussion include (but are not limited to): • Extended 
analyses of particular Grace Jones albums or individual tracks
• Jones’ key musical collaborators (the Compass Point All Stars and 
others) • Jones, Compass Point studios and the cosmopolitan in 
contemporary popular music
• Jones and the cover version as creative strategy
• Jones’ influence within dance music cultures from Disco onwards
• Jones and Jamaica
• Jones and non-normative forms of black culture and identity within 
popular music
• Jones, androgyny, sexuality and performativity within popular music
• Jones as live performer and performance artist
• Jones and the producer as auteur (Trevor Horn, Tom Moulton, Alex 
Sadkin and others)
• Jones, Jean-Paul Goude and the performer’s public image as creative 
statement within post-1970 popular music
• The contribution of Island Records to popular music since the 1970s
• Jones and the creative cultures of NYC and other global cities
• Jones’ parallel careers in fashion and film
• Jones and the evolution of celebrity and celebrity cultures since the 
1970s
• Jones and post-1960s cultures of decadence and excess
• Jones and postmodern divadom • Jones and popular music fan cultures • 
Jones’ influence on her contemporaries and subsequent generations of 
musicians and performers • Jones and the rise of reissue and legacy 
edition cultures in twenty-first-century popular music • Jones in the 
twenty-first century

Keynote speakers at the symposium will be announced soon. The event will 
also include screenings and nightclubbing. You can follow updates 
relating to the symposium online: @onlytherhythm / 
gracejonessymposium.tumblr.com.

Please send all paper proposals to (gracejonessymposium /at/ gmail.com) by 5pm 
on Monday 9 January 2017. Decisions will be made, and a provisional 
schedule announced, by Friday 20 January 2017. Ladies and Gentlemen, 
Miss Grace Jones is being co-organised by Dr Glyn Davis 
((glyn.davis /at/ ed.ac.uk)) and Dr Jonny Murray ((jonny.murray /at/ ed.ac.uk)). We’re 
not perfect, but we’re perfect for you.

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