CALL FOR PAPERS
"In the Mix:
Asian Popular Music"
Conference, Princeton University, March 25th-26th, 2011.
A conference organized with support from the Department of
East Asian Studies, the Department of Music, the
Program in American Studies, and
the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton
University.
Special Talk and
Performance: DJ Krush
Deadline for Submissions: November 30,
2010
We are pleased to invite abstract submissions for the conference, "In the
Mix: Asian Popular Music," which will take place on the campus of
Princeton University on March 2526, 2011.
Interest in Asian popular music?by which we are referencing both popular music
in Asia itself and popular genres played by Asians outside of Asia?has grown
internationally over the past decade, thanks to
the global popularity of anime,
video games, and other media, increased travel, and easy accessibility through
the Internet, among other factors. In a world where global popular musics are
decentralized into local scenes that are less influenced by North American
trends than they might have been in the past, the study of Asian popular music
invites negotiations among a diversity of
theoretical viewpoints, methodologies, and disciplines, including
globalization, gender, media and/or literary studies, anthropology, and
musicology/ethnomusicology.
The conference
aims to gather together scholars from a wide
range of perspectives. We are also inviting
musicians and music industry professionals to contribute their thoughts on
their own experiences, thereby adding practical insight into the mix of
scholarly discussions. In so doing, we seek to deepen our understanding of
artists, musics, and scenes as perceived by fans, promoters, and academics in
actual and theoretical contexts.
In addition to paper panels and discussions, the conference will include a
special talk by DJ Krush?a pioneer of Japanese hip-hop and internationally
known DJ/producer, known for his varied soundscapes of hip-hop beats and
Japanese sonic references?followed by a performance by DJ Krush.
We welcome proposals for papers from scholars of all disciplines on any aspect
of popular music in Asia or by Asians or
Asian-Americans. Some suggested topics
include:
-Histories of subcultural music scenes in Asia
-Asian hip-hop
-Questions of authenticity, hybridity, and the boundaries
between subcultures
-Aesthetics and music
-Musical analyses
-Nationalism
-Reception of Asian or Asian-American popular music, within
or outside of the home country
-Relations between theory and ethnography in the study of
Asian popular music
-Interactions between digital culture and popular music
Submissions should comprise a paper title, an abstract of up
to 250 words, a short bibliography of no more than a page, and a short
biography of about 200 words, all in one .rtf or .doc file with the author's
lastname_firstname as the title. Submissions
should be sent by e-mail to (puasianpopconference /at/ gmail.com)
by 30 November 2010 and should include the title of the paper, name,
affiliation, email address, and mailing address of the applicant. Please
address any questions to the organizing
committee at (puasianpopconference /at/ gmail.com).
Organizing committee
Richard Okada, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton
University
Noriko Manabe, Department of Music, Princeton University
Cameron Moore, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton
University
