[Commlist] CFP - Reggae Innovation and Sound System Culture

*Reggae Innovation and Sound System Culture ***

*An Anthology*

Call for Papers**

Kingston is the loudest city in the Anglophone Caribbean and Jamaica 
whose national instrument is the sound system is the noisiest country on 
the planet. Reggae//is but one of Jamaica’s indigenous musical genres. 
It provides a window into the soul of Jamaicans, the life and style of 
ordinary people including their historical struggles and contemporary 
triumphs. As a nation, Jamaica boasts world renowned creativity per 
capita that is arguably unmatched by any other nation. Sonic innovation, 
especially around the development of musical genres and the sound 
system, is at the heart of Kingston being designated a UNESCO Creative 
City of Music in 2015. It is this city which has birthed at least six 
(6) indigenous genres in the mid- to late Nineteenth Century. Reggae is 
arguably the most prominent worldwide, representing Jamaica across the 
world, with names such as Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, Jimmy Cliff, Burning 
Spear, Marcia Griffith and Peter Tosh being some of the most easily 
identifiable artists.

The *Reggae Innovation and Sound System Culture anthology*//is a project 
which builds on recent consultations, collaborations and meetings 
including the /Reggae Research Network/ held throughout the UK in 2017, 
the /Bass Culture Research Project/ and associated events, the /Strictly 
Vinyl Sound System Outernational #4/ in January 2018 at Goldsmiths, 
University of London with subsequent conferences in 2019 (Italy) and 
2020 (online), and /Reggae Innovation and Sound System Culture/ in April 
2018 at the Birmingham Conservatoire and in February 2019 at the 
University of the West Indies at Mona Campus.

This anthology will highlight subgenres, crossovers, mashups, 
intersections and innovations, featuring local, regional and 
international academics, practitioners and musicians. The anthology will 
engage with reggae innovation, particularly the theoretical and 
practical expressions of how innovation plays out through music and 
popular culture.

*We welcome proposed papers that address the following sub-themes:*

·       Innovation through heritage, from mento to dancehall.

·       Innovation for heritage beyond dancehall.

·       Reggaefuturists and reggaefuturism.

·       Reggae musicians and innovation case studies.


·       Re-reading reggae histories, transitions and translations.

·       Reggae in (and out) of global and/or local spaces.

·       Reggae, music and gender.

·       Reggae and the music industry; new forms, new marketing, new 
audiences.

·       Jamaican and diasporic sonicities.

·       Reggae and intellectual property.

·       New Reggae, new media, and new technologies.

·       Exploring dub’s inner and outer spaces and locations.

·       Dub as rhetoric and discourse.

·       Dub and technology

·Sound System outernational

· Sonic politics and citizenship

·       Reggae and dub visualization.

·       Reggae in and out of popular music studies.

·       Creativity: from theory to practice; methods and processes.

·       Reggae as source and stimulus for music intersections and hybrids.

·       Reggae voice(s).

· Reggae in transition: reinventing reggae 
- reconfigurations, collaborations and crossovers.

*Contributions must be between 3000 and 6000 words and formatted in 
accordance with UWI Press style, found 
*https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NW6ashBtzIRYSp7FmV4ANwEspG_tGTyW8jabe_5QnbQ/edit 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NW6ashBtzIRYSp7FmV4ANwEspG_tGTyW8jabe_5QnbQ/edit>

*/Please ensure that the formatting guidelines are carefully applied. /*

*The submission deadline for abstracts is December 31, 2020 and the 
deadline for full papers is January 31, 2021. *Email all submissions to 
Dr. Sonjah Stanley Niaah at (culture /at/ kosmopole.page) 
<mailto:(culture /at/ kosmopole.page)>


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