[ecrea] CFP: The Electric Guitar in American Culture

*Call for Papers:*

*The Electric Guitar in American Culture*

October 12-14, 2018

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/electricguitaramericanculture/home

It is a pleasure to invite scholars, performers, fans, and the general 
public to attend and participate at “The Electric Guitar in American 
Culture” on October 12-13-14, 2018, in Lubbock, Texas, original home of 
Buddy Holly and the Flatlanders, along with many other greats. The 
conference is organized by the Vernacular Music Center at the School of 
Music at Texas Tech University.

Objectives and Themes: The program committee invites papers, panels, and 
creative presentations on every possible facet of the electric guitar in 
American culture: popular, vernacular, and cultivated musics; 
technology, material culture, social geography; commerce, design, 
marketing; semiotics, organology, reception and/or performance studies, 
music and gender, and wider topics.

Special Student Conference: The program committee also invites 
submission of abstracts of papers for inclusion in a special Student 
Conference on Friday, October 12th. (Please note: Student papers should 
be clearly identified as such; students submitting abstracts are 
requested to include a short note from a supervising faculty member 
endorsing the submission.)

Topics of interest include Buddy Holly, Fender Guitars, the 
“vernacularization” of the electric guitar, vernacular musics of Texas 
and the American Southwest, electric guitar and amplifier design, guitar 
iconography. But proposals on all aspects of the Electric Guitar in 
American Culture will be considered.

Program Committee: Prof. Roger Landes (TTU Musicology); Christopher J. 
Smith PhD (TTU Musicology); Michael Borshuk (TTU English Dept.); Robert 
Peaslee PhD (TTU College of Media and Communication); Rob Weiner (TTU 
Libraries); Kent Wilkinson PhD (TTU College of Media and Communication); 
Aliza Wong PhD (TTU Honors College).

Abstracts: Deadline for abstracts (MS Word format) is June 1st, 2018. 
Paper abstracts should be no more than 250 words. Panel abstracts of 250 
words, with additional abstracts for each individual paper (3 or 4 
papers per panel). Email abstracts in MS Word to: (roger.landes /at/ ttu.edu). 
Authors of accepted papers/panels will be notified by July 1st, 2018.

Host: The *Vernacular Music Center *at Texas Tech University is a center 
for research, teaching, and advocacy in participatory expressive arts 
which are learned, taught, and passed on by ear and in the memory ( 
http://www.vernacularmusiccenter.org )

Contact: Roger Landes (roger.landes /at/ ttu.edu)


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