[ecrea] CFP: Rap Music's Sophisticated Dialogues NeMLA April 2011

>42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
>April 7-10, 2011
>New Brunswick, NJ ­ Hyatt New Brunswick
>Host Institution:  Rutgers University
>
>CFP: Rap Musics Sophisticated Dialogues with Society
>In recent years, rap music has gained increased 
>scholarly attention and esteem as a medium for 
>poetic expression, self-reflection, and even 
>social criticism.  Additionally, rap music has 
>been analyzed for its dialogic qualities, 
>especially in linguistic quarrels between 
>individual rap artists.  In this panel, 
>organizers would like to expand on the idea of 
>the rappers dialogue to include actual 
>exchanges between rappers and members of the 
>dominant community, whether parents or 
>government officials.  (For example, the German 
>rapper Sido sat down with government officials, 
>and also addresses parents role in the social 
>problems of teenagers in Augen Auf, while 
>American rapper David Banner addressed the US 
>congress) How does language and word choice 
>differ among the groups, even though the message 
>sometimes turns out to be the same?
>How does the quality and nature of the dialogue 
>work to elevate rap lyrics to the script of a 
>viable debate partner, or alternately degrade 
>the lyrics to a debate partner not to be taken 
>seriously?  At what point does the language of 
>the two groups converge when seeking to place the blame for social problems?
>
>Please send an abstract of 250 words or less to 
>the panel's co-chairs, Lynn Marie Kutch: kutch 
>[at] kutztown.edu, and Philipp Marquardt: Philipp_Marquardt [at] brown.edu.
>Deadline:  September 30, 2010
>
>Please include with your abstract:
>
>Name and Affiliation
>Email address
>Postal address
>Telephone number
>A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)
>
>The 42nd Annual Convention will feature 
>approximately 360 sessions, as well as 
>pre-conference workshops, dynamic speakers and 
>cultural events.  Details and the complete Call 
>for Papers for the 2011 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org.
>
>Interested participants may submit abstracts to 
>more than one NeMLA session; however panelists 
>can only present one paper (panel or 
>seminar).  Convention participants may present a 
>paper at a panel and also present at a creative 
>session or participate in a roundtable.  Do not 
>accept a slot if you may cancel to present on another session.
>
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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