Since its first meeting in Amsterdam in 1981, IASPM has
served as a hot house for thinking about popular music. We welcome work
from every academic discipline, from journalists and public intellectuals,
and from popular music makers. For this, our 20th anniversary conference,
we especially invite proposals for work that addresses both gaps and
developments in popular music studies since IASPM's inception. We are
similarly interested in work that imagines possible futures for popular
music studies.
This five-day conference will take us to the lovely
city of Turku on Finland's West Coast, which is directly across the Baltic
Sea from Stockholm. The conference will include five full days of talks,
workshops, and discussions, with live music or deejays on several
evenings. In addition, the host committee is working on planning outings
of various sorts for the days immediately before and after the conference.
Each of the five days of the conference will have a
specific theme. We especially encourage submissions of paper abstracts,
panel proposals, workshops and roundtables addressed to these themes,
which the committee has identified as central to the contemporary debates
in the field. They are:
Day 1 (July 6, 2001)
Spotlight
on the Basics
Theory and Methodologies
Convener:
Anahid Kassabian
Day 2 (July 7, 2001)
Identities
and Subjectivities
Convener:
Sheila
Whiteley
Day 3 (July 8, 2001)
The
Invisible Mainstream
Conservative, Ubiquitous and 'Popular'
Musics
Convener:
Keith Harris
Day 4 (July 9, 2001)
History
in Progress
Shifting Strategies
Convener:
Claire Levy
Day 5 (July 10, 2001)
Visions,
Vanguards, Vehicles
Technologies and Other Futures for Popular
Music
Convener:
Heinz-Peter
Katlewski
Proposals should be 200-300 words, and
include
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title
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contact information
(incl.name, email and postal address)
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theme resp. day that fits most closely to your
interests
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type of proposal
(For panel proposals, please be sure to include an abstract for each
individual paper. For workshops, roundtables, or other formats, please
describe how you propose to conduct the session as well as a full
abstract describing the issues to be discussed)
Except in the most extraordinary circumstances,
submissions should be forwarded by e-mail to:
iaspm2001program@info.comm.uic.edu
If e-mail is impossible, proposals can either be
faxed to
Anahid Kassabian
(+1-973-331-0865), or
posted to
Keith Harris
57 Goring Road
London, N11 2BT
United Kingdom
