[ecrea] CFP: Cool Retro Camp Trash. Aesthetic Concepts in Popular Culture

Call for Papers: Cool Retro Camp Trash. Aesthetic Concepts in Popular 
Culture, University of Freiburg, 3–5 May 2018

https://www.zpkm.uni-freiburg.de/coolretrocamptrash

Submission Deadline: 15 November 2017


The aesthetic quality of the popular is now undisputed. In fact, it can 
be argued that popular culture has become the dominant cultural paradigm 
of our days, which takes shape in music, film, literature, social media, 
fashion etc. In order to meet this cultural transformation with due 
attention, the aesthetic concepts of popular culture are to be 
scrutinized for the first time from a broad academic perspective.
In the course of the 20th century aesthetic strategies, discourses and 
value systems have emerged, most of which go beyond the boundaries of 
the art forms, the media and musical genres. Concepts such as retro, 
trash, camp, cool, crossover or cyber are just a few examples that show 
the high degree to which the aesthetic field of popular culture has 
become differentiated.
The call is aimed at scholars from different disciplines, but also at 
persons from the fields of cultural journalism and artistic practice. 
The aim of the conference is to illuminate how aesthetic concepts of 
popular culture come into being, are practiced, diffuse socially and 
develop normative quality.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- strategies in artistic production
- aesthetic concepts across the art forms and the media
- ideology, myth-making and purification - aesthetic concepts and 
meaning in everyday life - popular culture and (new) aesthetic theory
- methods of analyzing popular aesthetic objects and practices
- links to concepts and currents of bourgeois high culture (e.g., 
romanticism, autonomy aesthetics, avant-garde)
- material manifestations of aesthetic concepts (particularly sound)  - 
media and art form-specific concepts and practices
- aesthetic patterns in genre

Keynote lectures will be held by:
Prof. Dr. Henry Keazor (University of Heidelberg) and Prof. Dr. Markus 
Tauschek (University of Freiburg)

The conference is organized by the Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik 
(Centre for Popular Culture and Music) of the University of Freiburg, 
where it will take place from 3 to 5 May 2018. The proposals must be 
submitted in the form of abstracts (max. 1500 characters) together with 
brief information about the speaker (both in English or German) by 15 
November 2017 at the following address: (conference /at/ zpkm.uni-freiburg.de)

Young scholars can apply for travel allowance to the conference 
organizer. Conference languages are English and German. For further 
information please contact PD Dr. Christofer Jost 
((conference /at/ zpkm.uni-freiburg.de)).


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