[ecrea] call for papers: Reggae Innovation and Sound System Culture

*Reggae Innovation and Sound System Culture*

*MARCH 21st-22nd 2018*

*BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY, BIRMINGHAM *

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Birmingham City University and The University of West Indies are 
delighted to announce a forthcoming international conference on reggae 
culture and sound system innovation, and give notice of a forthcoming 
call for conference papers. Information on submission processes will be 
published in December.

The conference will be hosted in The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire at 
BCU, with its world-leading concert venues and conference facilities. 
The conference will also allow you entry to a number of planned reggae 
events and performances.

Running alongside the Arts Council-funded /Let’s Play Vinyl/ sound 
system touring exhibition, hosted by Birmingham City University, the 
conference will engage academics with the wider sound system culture. 
The exhibition features specially commissioned photographs of a new 
generation of sound system operators, toasting and ‘build your own’ 
system workshops, and the opportunity for all ages to play records on a 
traditional reggae sound system, designed and built for the exhibition.

The /Reggae Innovation/ /and Sound System Culture /International 
Conference builds upon recent meetings of the /Reggae Research Network/ 
(held throughout the UK in 2017), the /Bass Culture Research Project/ 
and associated events, and the forthcoming /Strictly Vinyl Sound System 
Outernational #4/ in January at Goldsmiths, University of London, which 
aims to establish new approaches to reggae culture research.

This /Reggae Innovation/ conference promises to be a landmark event in 
reggae culture research, highlighting the music’s subgenres, crossovers, 
mashups, intersections, and innovations, featuring international 
academic guests and musicians. The conference will discuss reggae 
innovation, in particular theoretical and practical expressions of how 
innovation plays out through music and popular culture.

Collectively, these events mark the first stage of a series of research 
and external engagement activities to investigate music diversity, 
cultural innovation, and visualisation. Like this conference, 
forthcoming events will place the spotlight on music heritage and 
innovation through a series of workshops and plenary sessions on visual 
culture, technology, and new collaborations.

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

·Innovation through heritage, from mento to dancehall
.

·Innovation for heritage beyond dancehall.

·Reggae musicians and innovation case studies.


·Reggae, music, and gender. 


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

·Jamaica and diasporic sonicities.

· Reggae new music, new media, new technologies.

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

·Reggae in and out of popular music studies.

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

·Reggae in transition: 
reinventing reggae-reconfigurations, 

collaborations, and crossovers.

·Reggae futures.

**

We would also welcome presentations made through innovative uses of 
media, music and technology alongside traditional formats. Presentation 
proposals from musicians are welcome.

Abstracts for individual or panel presentations of no more than 300 
words per presentation, supported by a short biography no longer than 75 
words per speaker, should be submitted to the conference organisers for 
international peer review. Details of the submission processes and 
deadlines will be published here later in December.


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