CFP: Revista Transcultural de Música (journal)

REVISTA TRANSCULTURAL DE MÚSICA

SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO STUDIES, GENDER STUDIES, FEMINISM AND MUSIC

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 2010

TRANS-Transcultural Music Review 15 (2011)present a special issue dedicated to interdisciplinary research on Women and Music,coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the publication of Feminine Endings (1991) by Susan McClary, and Gender and Musical Canon (1993) by Marcia Citron. The dossier will be published in collaboration with the group on "Women's Studies, Gender, and Feminism in Music" (www.compositoras.acimus.org) of the Society for Ethnomusicology-SIBE, coordinated by Susan Campos Fonseca (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-UAM).

We are accepting original articles on this topic following the research lines of: musical constructions of gender and sexuality, gender aspects of traditional music theory; gender and sexuality in the musical narrative; music as a discourse of gender; discourse strategies of the "women musicians"; canonical matters and practice of canon. Related works are also considered since the Cultural Studies and Historical Musicology.

Articles may be written in Spanish, English,French, Italian or Portuguese. Deadline for receipt of manuscripts: September 2010.

For information about the editorial norms follow the link:

http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/contributors.htm

CFP: Post-Punk Performance: the alternative 80s in Britain (Leeds)

POST-PUNK PERFORMANCE: THE ALTERNATIVE 80S IN BRITAIN

SCHOOL OF PERFORMANCE AND CULTURAL INDUSTIRES, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

9 SEPTEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

The School of Performance and Cultural Industries is pleased to be hosting a one-day conference event called “Post-Punk Performance: the alternative 80s in Britain”.

Contrary to popular mythology, youth culture during the 1980s meant rather more than Spandau Ballet, Rick Astley, and Madonna. A quickly burgeoning ‘indie’ scene, born of the ruins of punk, set itself against the banality of the mainstream. Centred on music and synonymous with identity and self-expression, it offered a complex and layered network of alternatives for an increasingly politicised and self-aware generation of young people.

The purpose of this conference is to explore notions of ‘alternative’ music and performance in the post-punk era, circa 1978 – 1989. The ‘indie’ music scene of this period will serve as a lens through which to view core themes of liveness, fashion and visual identities, iconography, youth cultures and the socio-political context. The event will assess post-punk’s continuing and profound influence on the current scene, both in musical and performative terms. It will explore how post-punk is absorbed into the present and will be projected into the future.

In addition to contributions from academics and scholars, the event will invite label partners, musicians and influential journalists to exchange views and perspectives on the post-punk era and beyond. This framework offers unique opportunities to bring together the academy and industry, and to facilitate networking and discussion across these spheres.

A live performance event featuring poetry, comedy and music will follow the daytime proceedings. Acts to be announced.

Proposals might address one or more of the following themes:

• The frequency and velocity of musical genre development

• Liveness: performance authenticities

• Performance of style

• Visual identities: fashion’s relation to music and vice versa

• Transatlantic influence and exchange

• Alternative music, party politics and gender politics

• The past reconfigured for the present

• Song writing: structure and theme

• Media representation and music reportage

• Local scenes

• Record labels and musical identity

• Punk and post-punk: musical legacies and trajectories

The conference will be interdisciplinary. Therefore, we welcome contributions from a range of disciplines, including Music, Performance, Fashion and Textiles, Photography, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Film and Television Studies, Philosophy and Journalism.

Proposals should be submitted as a Word Document and should contain the following information:

 Name of Presenter

 Title of Paper

 Institutional Affiliation

 150 word biography

 500 word abstract

Please send your proposal electronically, together with a completed registration form, to Dr Philip Kiszely (P.Kiszely@leeds.ac.uk) by Friday 26th June, 2009. Acceptance will be confirmed by the end of July.

Cost: £125 (Includes conference proceedings, day conference, entry to evening event)

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Paul Morley

Paul Morley wrote for the NME from 1977 to 1983. A leading figure in critical, journalistic and industry terms, he formed ZTT, helped guide Frankie Goes to Hollywood to pop stardom, and enjoyed considerable commercial success and critical acclaim in his own right through Art of Noise. His television work is extensive, and includes appearances on the Late Show, Whistle Test, and the recent Top Ten series on Channel 4. He now writes for Arena and Esquire, and his books Nothing and Words and Music are as essential as they are challenging reading.

Dave Haslam

Dave Haslam was DJ at the legendary Hacienda nightclub during the heady days of ‘Madchester’. His book Madchester, England not only captures the spirit of that remarkable era but also offers a penetrating cultural commentary on time and place. A subsequent book on the music and politics of the 1970s titled Not Abba: the Real Story of the 1970s suggests the breadth of his musical interest. Founder of Debris fanzine, he has written for a variety of publications including The NME, The Times, and The Guardian. He teaches music journalism at the University of Salford and the history and culture of Manchester at Manchester Metropolitan University.

CONFERENCE ORGANISERS: Dr Philip Kiszely (P.Kiszely@leeds.ac.uk), Alice Bayliss (A.Bayliss@leeds.ac.uk) and Michael Rose

For any further information, please contact Alice Bayliss on 0113 343 8715

CFP: Gender and Musical Performance Conference (Teesside)

GENDER AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE
24 JUNE 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite proposals addressing any aspect of gender and musical performance in the formats of spoken papers (20 minutes plus questions), recitals (30 minutes) and round table discussions (1 hour). Contributions from any discipline are welcomed, although work using a psychological approach is particularly encouraged. Please send abstracts for proposals (200 words max.)
including your AV needs to Noola Griffiths.

Abstracts must be received by 03 April 2009.
Feedback will be given by 20 April 2009.

Further information will be available in due course from: http://www.scm.tees.ac.uk/n.griffiths/gender

Noola Griffiths (n.griffiths@tees.ac.uk)
School of Computing
University of Teesside
Borough Road
Middlesbrough
TS1 5BA

Women in Ottocento Italy: New Perspectives (Clare College, Cambridge) (Upcoming symposium)

'WOMEN IN OTTOCENTO ITALY: NEW PERSPECTIVES'. A ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM

SATURDAY 7 MARCH 2009, 930 - 1730

CLARE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE (LATIMER ROOM)

Organisers: Dr Kate Mitchell (Lucy Cavendish, Cambridge; Department of Italian; email: khm28@cam.ac.uk) and Dr Helena Sanson (Clare College, Cambridge; Department of Italian; email: hls37@cam.ac.uk)

The event is sponsored by the Department of Italian and by the Society for Italian Studies. http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/news/Symposium_2009.html

All are welcome to attend. There is a registration fee of £12 (£8.00 for postgraduates), which includes a buffet lunch and refreshments. Please register your interest by downloading the registration form from our webpage and sending it, together with your payment, to the Italian

Department Senior Secretary, Mrs Nan Taplin (email: nt272@cam.ac.uk), at the following address:

Mrs Nan Taplin

Department of Italian

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidgwick Site

Cambridge CB3 9DA

The organisers can offer a small contribution towards postgraduates' travel expenses. The amount will depend on the number of postgraduates attending.

Please register by 27 February 2009 at the latest, as there is a cap on numbers.

The feminist movement of the 1970s, the drive towards interdisciplinarity and the rise of new disciplines have had a marked impact on Italian Studies. This one-day symposium focuses on the contribution made by women to nineteenth-century culture in Italy and the forging of the nation state. It brings together specialists in the field to discuss new developments in light of recent scholarship. They will look at a range of artistic practices that includes women writers, actors, artists, journalists and musicians, and at the role of women as readers, spectators and consumers of contemporary culture. Drawing on, among others, women's studies, gender studies, cultural studies, history of the book, linguistics and historiography, the symposium sets out to determine what new perspectives, if any, can be brought to bear on work carried out so far.

WOMEN IN OTTOCENTO ITALY: NEW PERSPECTIVES

9.30 Coffee and registration

9.50 Welcome

WOMEN OF THE THEATRE

10.00-10.30 Julie Dashwood (Lucy Cavendish, Cambridge) 'Actress-Managers in Ottocento Italy: the Case of Adelaide Ristori'

10.30-11.00 Susan Rutherford (University of Manchester) 'Body, Sex and Opera: Verdi's Rigoletto'

11.00-11.30 Coffee/tea

WATCHING WOMEN

11.30-12.00 Kate Mitchell (Lucy Cavendish, Cambridge) 'Fare le italiane: The Female Gaze in Nineteenth-Century Italy'

12.00-12.30 Penny Wickson (University of Birmingham) "Fra quadri e Statue": Odoardo Borrani's Una visita al mio studio (1872)'

12.30-14.00 Lunch (Thirkill Room) and garden visit (weather permitting)

WOMEN WRITERS

14.00-14.30 Ann Hallamore Caesar (University of Warwick) 'Revisiting the Alternative Canon. Different Approaches to Women and the Post-Unification Novel'

14.30-15.00 Ursula Fanning (University College Dublin) 'Maternal Descriptions and Prescriptions in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy'

15.00-15.30 Sharon Wood (University of Leicester) 'A Nomad in the East: the Writing of Cristina di Belgioioso'

15.30-16.00 Coffee/tea

WOMEN AND LANGUAGE

16.00-16.30 Laura Lepschy (University College London and University of Cambridge) 'Carolina Invernizio and Self-Translation: Ij delit d'na bela fia and Storia d'una sartina'

16.30-17.00 Helena Sanson (Clare College, Cambridge) 'Some

Considerations on Women and the "Questione della Lingua" in Post-Unification Italy'

17.00-17.30 General discussion and close

CFP: Queer Screen Cultures (Study Day, Nottingham)

QUEER SCREEN CULTURES POSTGRADUATE STUDY DAY
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
TUESDAY 5 MAY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Queer Screen Cultures is an interdisciplinary postgraduate study day to be held at the University of Nottingham on May 5th 2009 in association with the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. It is devised with the aim of bringing together researchers from across the UK who deal with issues of queer visibility and representation, and so making links across the disciplines and across the academic spectrum.

There has been a perceptible alteration in media representations of queer sexualities since the 1990s, on a global scale. The cultural visibility of queers has increased exponentially, with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters now routinely populating film, television and other digital media, and the mainstream press frequently covering gay and lesbian stories as a matter of course. This interdisciplinary event seeks to explore representations and negotiations of queerness in contemporary screen cultures, as well as their determinants, in addition to interrogating recent queer readings and "reclamations" of earlier screen texts. Supporting scholars from film and media studies, sociology, politics and cultural studies among other disciplines, the event will cover a number of themes and issues pertaining to on screen queer visibility, including but not limited to:

- Cultural mainstreaming and the political contexts of queer visibility;
- Film-making and queer aesthetics;
- Queer audiences and participatory cultures: for example, L Word theme parties;
- On-screen intersections of queerness and other identities: gender, ethnicity, etc;
- Queer "reclamations" of ostensibly non-queer films, television programmes, and other texts;
- "Textual poaching," queer appropriations and slash fictions;
- Queer adaptations;
- Trans and genderqueer visibility: representations and marginalisation;
- National and regional queer identities in cinema and media;
- The impact of digitisation and the multi-platform environment on queer visibility;
- Network branding and queer narrowcasting, as in the here! and Logo channels;
- Internet technologies and queer self-fashioning: YouTube and other online broadcasting.

Gary Needham of Nottingham Trent University, author of the forthcoming Queer TV, and Dr Michele Aaron of the University of Birmingham, editor of New Queer Cinema, will be delivering plenary lectures. There will also be a roundtable discussion which will bring together both speakers and delegates to debate 'the cultural mainstreaming of queerness.'

We invite proposals for 20 minute papers from postgraduate research students on any aspect of contemporary queer screen culture. Abstracts of between 200-250 words and any other enquiries should be directed to Natalie Edwards at aaxne@nottingham.ac.uk

EXTENDED Deadline for abstracts is 1 December 2008

CFP: Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique (Leeds)

RICHARD HOGGART: CULTURE AND CRIQITUE
An international conference hosted by
THE SCHOOL OF CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE INSTITUTE OF NORTHERN STUDIES
LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
10 - 12 JULY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Since the publication of The Uses of Literacy in 1957, Richard Hoggart has been one of Britain’s foremost public intellectuals and cultural critics. His work challenges entrenched disciplinary and social boundaries, addressing a wide range of subjects including literature, popular culture and the development of public policy.

His reputation for being both a critical and practical intellectual is evident in the way that he worked tirelessly within and without the world of academe for much of his career, working as an extra-mural lecturer at the University of Hull, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester, Professor of English and founding Director for the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO and Warden of Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has also been a key member of numerous other public bodies and committees, including the Albermarle Committee on Youth Services, the Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education and the
Broadcasting Research Unit.

During this time he has published over thirty books and contributed to numerous policy documents, the sum of which represents an extensive and entirely consistent engagement with normative questions and public discourses that continue to inform contemporary debates about culture, literacy, educated citizenship and social democracy.

Invited keynote speakers include Alan Bennett, Melvyn Bragg, Tony Harrison, Peter Bailey, Ros Brunt, Sue Owen, Jim McGuighan, Mac Daly, Jeremy Seabrook, John Corner, among others. Papers are invited on any aspect of the work or influence of Richard Hoggart, but are particularly encouraged on the following themes:

• Cultural Studies: Then & Now
• Uses of Literature
• Cultural & Social History
• Adult Education
• Media, Culture & Society
• Cultural Policy
• Gender, Sexuality & Race

Conference papers will be organized into panel sessions of 90 minutes, each comprising three 20-minute papers and time for discussion. Proposals may be submitted either for individual papers or for organized panel sessions of three papers and a chair.

Abstracts of papers (200 words) should be sent by 31st January 2009 to Pat Cook/Jean Brownridge. Email: Cook.Brownridge@leedsmet.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 113 812 3120

Further details will be posted on the School of Cultural Studies website in due course: http://leedsmet.ac.uk/as/cs/

CFP: Heavy Metal and Gender (Cologne)

HEAVY METAL AND GENDER
UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC COLOGNE
8 - 10 OCTOBER 2009

An international conference, at the University of Music Cologne / Hochschule für Musik Köln, Germany http://www.metalandgender.de/

Heavy metal is music of men and women. But even though it generally attracts as many female as male fans today, heavy metal often emphasizes sexual differences. According to stereotypes, heavy metal is rather masculine than feminine because of its power, aggressiveness, often even ugliness, and its transgressions of cultural norms. From this perspective the under-representation of female metal musicians seems natural as much as women’s interest in metal is often considered abnormal or even inappropriate. However, research on music and gender has increasingly shown that gender roles and differences are not natural laws but complex results of socialisation, cultural mediation, and discourses which change over time.

A wide range of questions

The 40 years old heavy metal genre offers a wide range of questions about gender constructions in musical culture. Obviously, heavy metal has always been dominated by representations of masculinity. This can be identified for instance in the virtuoso playing style of the electric guitar, which is mostly regarded as a masculine instrument, in macho stage shows, warrior images, or in the almost total exclusion of female musicians in the extreme subgenre of black metal. On the other hand, there is a minority of female musicians in heavy metal, including outstanding examples as Doro and Angela Gossow, and their number increased in the past years. Metal women have developed their own images, partly in strong contrast to their male counterparts and to mainstream female images. Women’s participation in heavy metal has recently become subject of discussions in magazines, internet forums and popular DVD documentations as Sam Dunn’s “Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey”. Further, queer positions evading common heterosexual dichotomies occur in metal, too, for instance in forms of gay metal communities.
The field is wide and the challenge is: How exactly are heavy metal and gender related?

The goal of the conference

The goal of the conference is to discuss issues of heavy metal and gender from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. It aims at examining a broad variety of periods, places and subgenres of heavy metal culture and any of its parts including song structures, lyrics, performance practices, visual representations, positions of musicians and fans, local and global scenes, critical and scholarly discourse.
Heavy metal studies as well as gender studies have improved their fields of research and methodology in recent years. Thus it is to be expected that an interdisciplinary discussion of heavy metal and gender today will lead to innovative impulses for research and bring forth new and unexpected results.
It will be the first scholarly conference on heavy metal in Germany and the first metal conference world-wide, which focuses on issues of gender.

Call for Papers

We welcome contributions from the broadest spectrum: Musicology, Gender studies, Cultural studies, Sociology, Literary studies, Media studies etc. The conference language is English.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to us by Friday 31st October 2008.
Kindly submit abstracts to:

Dr. Florian Heesch
History | Herstory
University of Music Cologne
Email: heesch(at)mhs-koeln.de