[ecrea] CFP, Popular Music special edition, popular music and disability

>**Apologies for cross-posting**
>I hope some of you will be interested in 
>submitting to a special edition of the journal 
>Popular Music I am editing for 2008 publication, 
>on popular music and disability. Please do 
>forward to other interested parties you know. 
>CFP is attached, and, in shorter form, below.
>George
>Professor George McKay
>Director, Communication, Cultural &
>Media Studies Research Centre
>Adelphi House
>University of Salford
>Manchester M3 6EN
>tel +44 (0)161 295 2694
>(g.a.mckay /at/ salford.ac.uk)
>www.ccm.salford.ac.uk
>Co-editor, Social Movement Studies: Journal of 
>Social, Cultural and Political Protest
>New-ish book! Circular Breathing: The Cultural 
>Politics of Jazz in Britain (Duke UP)
>Popular Music Special Issue: Popular music and disability
>In recent years there has been a surge of 
>interest in the critical and cultural 
>exploration of the social and experiential 
>issues of disabled people. There have also been 
>important policy and funding shifts to address 
>questions of access, mobility, discrimination, 
>visibility, and disability in education. Yet 
>there remains a gap in academic research around 
>disability and popular music. Most of the 
>critical material in the cultures and 
>performance of disability originates from 
>theatre studies, or freakshows/medical 
>performances, or through historical writings 
>about, for example, the disability arts 
>movement, or in photographic projects. There is 
>little writing about popular music and the 
>disabled body per se. This is in spite of a 
>wealth of case studies that could look at the 
>imperfect (or extraordinary in Rosemary 
>Garland Thompsons term) body of what might be 
>called disabled popfrom blind or deaf 
>musicians, those with physical disabilities or 
>restricted mobility, neurological or psychiatric disabilities.
>This Special Issue of Popular Music encourages 
>scholarship that crosses disciplines in this 
>field; topics to address include but are not restricted to:
>    * the imperfect pop body,
>    * public visibility of disability in pop,
>    * ways in which the industry has presented/marketed/censored disability,
>    * policy issues of disability and the public/community arts,
>    * genres that might be more or less 
> accessible to disabled musicians than others 
> (for instance, the punk freak aesthetic),
>    * historical/critical case studies,
>    * (pop) music therapy and medicine,
>    * audience and reception, and
>    * consideration of ways in which popular 
> music and disability can contribute to the 
> theoretical debates within disability studies.
>Papers examining all aspects of popular music and disability are welcome.
>The standard rules for publication in Popular 
>Music apply. All submissions will be peer 
>reviewed in the normal way. Prospective 
>contributors are invited to submit a 200-300 word abstract by 1 December 2006.
>http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PMU
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