[ecrea] CFP: Balancing The Mix: A Conference on Popular Music and Social Justice, Memphis

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*Balancing The Mix: A Conference on Popular Music and Social Justice*

*University of Memphis, 30 March 2019*

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The history of post-war popular music has been closely associated with 
concerns for social justice. It is not only that particular ideals 
(equality, community, rights, an end to oppression and discrimination) 
have animated the public sphere; it is also that those ideals have - 
whether we look at blues, gospel, world music, punk or hip-hop, for 
instance - been central in many music genres. This is no surprize, 
insofar as post-war popular music has developed in parallel with the 
rise of humanism, the postcolonial era, civil rights, the culture wars, 
and the rise of identity politics. In that sense, and more, music has 
been political, and further politicized: employed as an opportunity to 
establish empathy, express solidarity, and mobilize agents of change. 
Issues of social justice have in turn influenced public decisions about, 
for example, music funding, heritage and archiving. For this conference, 
we invite papers (or panels) based on topics related to popular music 
and social justice in the widest sense. These may include:

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·       Popular music and civil rights

·       Personal freedom, music and social justice

·       Utopian conceptions of social justice in music cultures

·       Listening and social justice

·       Cultural appropriation, composition and performance

·       Music and social justice in the context of neoliberalism

·       Questions of rights, privilege or shared victimhood in relation 
to popular music

·       Gender equality, sexual identity and popular music

·       Religion, social justice and music

·       Socialism, communism and popular music

·       Social justice, music and charities

·       Southern music, social history and issues of race, class and/or 
gender​

·       Non-western musical cultures or intercultural music and social 
justice

·       Labour, class and popular music

·       Ethical creeds publicly expressed by musicians and music movements

·       Popular music and social justice in the context of colonialism 
and foreign policy

·       Reactionary music cultures

·       Music and conceptions of meritocracy or the social order

·       Music and disability

·       Expressing equality through music making or listening

·       Music fandom, activism, participatory culture and social justice

·       Song collecting, archiving and issues of social justice

·       Social justice, music, and humanism / posthumanism

·       Music, contemporary criticism of social justice, and the rise of 
the ‘alt right’

Please send an abstract of under 300 words together with a one-sentence 
biography to: (balancingthemix /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(balancingthemix /at/ gmail.com)>

Deadline for the submission of abstracts will be 24 September 2018.

Successful candidates will be notified by 1 November 2018. The length of 
presentations shall be 20 minutes maximum.  Registration fee $100 / $75 
(unwaged).

For more details see: http://www.balancingthemix.com 
<http://www.balancingthemix.com/>


Organizers: Dr Amanda Nell-Edgar 
<http://www.memphis.edu/communication/people/edgar.php> (University of 
Memphis), Dr Mark Duffett <http://markduffett.com/books> (University of 
Chester)

Committee: Dr Andre E. Johnson (University of Memphis), Professor Sara 
Cohen (University of Liverpool),  Dr Robert Fry (Vanderbilt 
University), Professor Claude Chastagner (Université Paul-Valéry 
Montpellier 3).


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