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Archive for November, 2008
November 25, 2008 at 2:12 pm · Filed under Sociology/Anthropology
The following announcement is being circulated:
Charles Lippy and Peter Williams are seeking potential authors for
entries for The Encyclopedia of Religion in America, a four-volume
reference set to be published by CQ Press in 2010. (Remuneration is ten
cents per word.)The following are titles for which authors are still
needed. If you are interested, please reply by e-mail to
williapw@muohio.edu and Charles-Lippy@utc.edu. Please include a brief
statement of your qualifications for addressing the topic(s) in which
you are interested and attach a c.v. We are hopeful that this set will
be as successful as our earlier Encyclopedia of the American Religious
Experience in defining and summarizing the state of knowledge in the
field today in a manner accessible to a broad range of potential users.
Topics and Word Count:
Appalachian Mountain Religion (6000)
Children and Adolescents (6000)
Education: Religious Issues (6000)
Establishment, Religious (4000)
Fraternal Orders (6000)
Holocaust (4000)
Jains: Background and in North America (4000)
Latino American Religion: Struggles for Justice (4000)
Material Culture Approaches (6000)
Methodists Since the Nineteenth Century (6000)
Mexico: Independence to the Mexican Revolution (4000)
Mexico: Indigenous Religions (6000)
Philanthropy (6000)
Politics: Colonial Era (6000)
Popular Religion and Popular Culture: Colonial Period to Civil War
(6000)
Reformed Denominational Family (4000)
Religious Studies (4000)
Religious Thought: Roman Catholic (4000)
Sikhs (4000)
Social Reform (10,000)
Systematic Theology (2000)
Visual Culture: Civil War to World War II (6000)
World War II (2000)
Zen Buddhism (2000)
November 25, 2008 at 7:59 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Another interesting session from the American Anthropological Association conference was about anthropologists who happen to be mothering children alongside their fieldwork experiences. Check it out: Fieldwork with Three Children
November 24, 2008 at 3:03 pm · Filed under Sociology/Anthropology
“At the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting, which ended Sunday, the official theme was “Inclusion, Collaboration and Engagement.” That final word – “engagement” – inspired lively and at times prickly debates and discussions, with sessions and meetings focused on the Human Terrain System and other controversial forms of collaboration with the U.S. military, secret research, and a planned comprehensive review of the association’s decade-old Code of Ethics.” Get the scoop on all the happenings at AAA here.
November 24, 2008 at 11:30 am · Filed under Languages, Music, Sociology/Anthropology
The following announcement is being circulated:
Call for Submissions: Documentary Expression and the American South
Proposals due January 30, 2009
Southern Spaces (http://www.southernspaces.org)
invites proposals for essays, photography, and multimedia projects about
documentary expression in the various regions and places of the U.S.
South. We encourage submissions that combine innovative scholarship and
commentary about documentary work with ideas for digital media elements
such as images, maps, audio, or video. We also welcome the submission of
original documentary projects.
For this series, Southern Spaces will to publish projects that explore
documentary expression in audio, film, art, photography, and other media.
Original pieces might examine the work of one or more documentarians;
analyze coverage of particular persons, places, or events; or compare the
treatment of ideas or images across several documentary works, genres, or
decades. To engage with space and place, projects might examine
geographically specific sites, imagined geographies related to the U.S.
South, migrations and displacements, or relationships between places. For
more information, please
visit: http://www.southernspaces.org/abo_cfp_doc.html
Also see “The Tennessee Jamboree” at
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2008/hanson/1a.htm
November 24, 2008 at 9:27 am · Filed under Sociology/Anthropology
The Digital Youth Project has published a report of their ethnographic study, free online, and it’s created quite a buzz. Check out one of the articles about it here, and the report itself here. A book about this study is forthcoming from MIT Press, and apparently will be published online and in print.
November 18, 2008 at 10:00 am · Filed under Music, Sociology/Anthropology
The following announcement is being circulated:
To explore some of the history of the blues, Arkansas State
University is developing its annual “Delta Blues Symposium”
around the theme of 100 years of Delta culture. One area
that interests me is the exploration of ways in which blues
music has come to be seen as rooted in the Delta. One of
the earliest mentions of blues is the famous published over
100 years ago by W. C. Handy. He wrote that he first heard
the blues while waiting for a train in Mississippi. He
remarked that it was “the weirdest music” he had ever heard.
These kinds of early references suggest that blues wasn’t
really that widespread within the Delta, but it also makes me
wonder what other regions were supporting musical forms
simliar to blues. Handy’s writing seems to be the start of one
hundred years of connecting the area between Memphis and
Vicksburg with the birth of blues. The idea really took off
with the writing of researchers like H. Courlander and A.
Lomax, and lately some of this history is being called into
question.
There’s a pre-blues music, alternately spelled as “reels” or
“reals,” that was much more widely distributed than blues
music in the Delta. At ASU, we’re planning some presentations
at our symposium to explore this pre-history. We also
welcome submissions that connect blues music to various
forms of cultural expression over the past 100 years.
Another area that interests me is the way in which the
Mississippi Delta has shown up in blues scenes outside of
the Delta. In looking at a century of blues music, it’d be
interesting to explore how images of the Delta have been
picked up internationally.
It shows up with a literal movement of musicians out of the
South and into Chicago and other northern cities, and it’s
interesting how the music of Chicago blues musicians
became the entry point for various blues revivals in Europe
in the 1960s and 70s. We’ve had some good presentations
on this topic at past meetings, and I’d be really interested in
what our international colleagues have to say about various
perceptions of the Delta. It really seems to have acquired a
mythic status — largely by people living outside of the Delta.
Here’s the announcement for our 15th annual Delta Blues
Symposium. We’d appreciate having you visit us in Jonesboro.
Please feel free to copy and forward this announcement on to
relevant lists.
Thanks.
Gregory Hansen
Arkansas State University
The Department of English and Philosophy at Arkansas State
University (Jonesboro campus) announces its fifteenth annual
Delta Blues Symposium, to be held 2-4 April 2009. The theme
for Delta Blues Symposium XV is the celebration of Delta culture
the past 100 years. The ways in which those in the public as well
as in academia have highlighted cultural influences shaping the
Lower Mississippi River Delta embrace a wide range of expressive
forms.
Underscoring such an multidisciplinary approach, the symposium
committee encourages proposals from scholars and students of the
humanities and social sciences-especially anthropology, art history,
economics, folklore studies, geography, history, literature, musicology,
political science, and sociology. As well, we seek contributions from
scholars and students of the physical and natural sciences.
In keeping with past symposia, we also welcome proposals for papers
and panels that deal with any and all aspects of the seven-state
Mississippi River Delta region or with the blues, perhaps the region’s
most famous export. We particularly invite presentations on artists who
have appeared at previous symposia (fiction writers such as Lewis
Nordan, Ellen Douglas, Scott Ely, Tom Piazza, and Beverly Lowry; poets
like Natasha Trethewey, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jo McDougall, and Michael
Harper; visual artists, including James Fraher, David Rae Morris, and
Maude Schuyler Clay; and such musicians as Alvin Youngblood Hart,
Kenny Neal, Little Milton, Billy Lee Riley, and James “Super Chikan”
Johnson.
Program proposals may be for individual presentations or for panels.
These should be sent as 100-word abstracts. We also urge participation
by creative writers and other artists. Please send samples of previous
work for our consideration. The submission deadline is December 15,
2008. The registration fee of $25.00, which covers Symposium expenses
and brings a one-year subscription to Arkansas Review, will be collected
after proposals have been accepted. Note that this fee is waived for
currently enrolled students.
Proposals may be sent via post, e-mail, or fax to the following address:
Delta Symposium Committee
Department of English and Philosophy
PO Box 1890
Arkansas State University
State University, AR 72467
delta@astate.edu
Phone: 870-972-3043
Fax: 870-972-3045
Further information can be had by contacting the Delta Symposium
Committee or by checking the Symposium website:
www.clt.astate.edu/blues
November 17, 2008 at 3:54 pm · Filed under Music
In all the election news, this story seems to have been drowned out. “A Harvard law professor has opened a new front in the battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and alleged music pirates by challenging the constitutionality of a statute being used by the industry group to bring lawsuits against alleged copyright violators.” Full story here.
November 11, 2008 at 3:07 pm · Filed under Music
The following announcement is brought to you by Naxos Music Library, funded by Henderson Library and available via GALILEO here.
On November 13, Canada’s #1 Independent Record Label, Nettwerk Music Group, Joins The Naxos Music Library
469 titles from Nettwerk’s catalog, featuring artists such as Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, and Sixpence None the Richer will be available on Naxos Music Library.
November 11, 2008 — Naxos Music Library, the world’s largest collection of streaming classical, jazz, wind band, choral, and world music — owned by the world’s leading classical label — welcomes Canada’s top independent record label, Nettwerk Music Group, to its roster of more than 75 premiere performing arts labels, thereby expanding its offerings to include more independent popular music.
Nettwerk Music Group’s extensive catalog features artists such as Barenaked Ladies, Datarock, Delerium, Griffin House, Jars of Clay, Josh Rouse, Junkie XL, Ladytron, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Submarines, Sixpence None The Richer, The Weepies, and many others.
Nettwerk’s Founder and CEO Terry McBride has commented:”Naxos is at the forefront of a new way of thinking that allows the consumer the choice they want.” Klaus Heymann, Naxos’ founder and CEO, said “All of us at Naxos are proud to welcome Nettwerk Music Group to the Naxos Music Library roster of labels. Over the past two decades, Nettwerk Music Group has shown itself to be one of the most diverse, trendsetting, and forward-looking labels in the industry, often going against the grain to stay a few steps ahead of the rest. It is that same innovative, entrepreneurial spirit and vision (of Nettwerk Music Group CEO Terry McBride) that drives Naxos, and so we are extremely happy to be working together with such a world-renowned label.”
Founded in 1984 by Terry McBride, Nettwerk Music Group is Canada’s leading privately-owned record label and artistic management company, responsible for managing some of Canada’s biggest artists, including Sarah McLachlan, Avril Lavigne, and Barenaked Ladies. In 2000, Nettwerk Management expanded its roster to include producers, mixers, and DJs, and now boasts a roster of 40+ world-renowned professionals, including Howard Benson (POD), Cliff Magnus (Avril Lavigne), Randy Staub (Nickelback, Metallica) and Mark Trombino (Blink 182, Jimmy Eat World). Since its inception, Nettwerk Productions has been responsible for 400+ releases that have amassed worldwide sales in excess of 100 million albums. With multiple #1 albums and singles throughout the world, Nettwerk has grown from a small Vancouver record label into an international musical powerhouse, with offices in cities around the world, including New York, Los Angeles, and London, and a headquarters next to Granville Island in Vancouver, B.C.
About Naxos Music Library:
Created by pioneers of the value-priced CD industry–the independent classical music label Naxos and its Chairman Klaus Heymann–Naxos Music Library is a streaming audio music education resource that features recordings from 75+ prestigious independent performing arts labels, including Avie Records, BIS, Bridge, Chandos, Delos, Dacapo, Haenssler Classics, Hungaroton, New Albion, Opera Rara, PentaTone, Phoenix Edition, V2, Wigmore Hall Live, and others. Naxos Music Library launched in 2004 with only a handful of titles and labels, but it quickly grew under the Naxos philosophy.
With over 369,000 tracks of music, powerful tools to stimulate music education and research, the daily addition of new releases, and remote access, Naxos Music Library continues to set the industry standard in streaming classical music education.
About Naxos:
Naxos has focused on maintaining its value- and customer-focused philosophy since Klaus Heymann founded it in 1987. It is the world’s leading classical music label, garnering awards from major music publications like Gramophone, numerous Editor’s Choice awards, GRAMMY(c) nominations and awards, nominations and wins from the Cannes Classical Awards, and AFIM nominations and awards. Naxos offers music lovers a veritable encyclopedia of music at an affordable price. With offices in 12 countries, the company’s properties include Naxos, Classics Online, Naxos Music Library, Naxos Radio, and Naxos Spoken Word Library.
November 11, 2008 at 11:20 am · Filed under Music
The following announcement appeared on the Society for Ethnomusicology’s listserv:
TRANS-Transcultural Music Review 14 (2010) is preparing a special issue on Music, Technology and Creativity, edited by Héctor Fouce and Amparo Lasén (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). We invite to submit original articles on this topic, which could complement those included in this number.
Suggested topics for the articles submitted are:
transformations of the author’s role,
music genres based on the use of pre-existent materials (c.f. hip hop. Electronic music, Bastard Pop, Mashups, etc.),
technology uses and new creative practices,
reorganisation of the music industries in this new context,
creative practices of publics,
fans and audiences, etc.
We accept contributions in Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.
TRANS is the refereed journal of the SIBE-Sociedad de etnomusicología and the IASPM-Spain. Is the best ranked academic music journal in Spain.
The deadline for the submission of the articles is September 2009.
For information about the editorial norms follow the link: http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/contributors.htm
For more information please write to:
edicion@sibetrans.com
Amparo Lasén alasen@cps.ucm.es,
Héctor Fouce hector@fouce.net
Ruben Lopez Cano lopezcano@yahoo.com
November 3, 2008 at 11:33 am · Filed under Languages, Sociology/Anthropology
Check out the 2008 Winner of the Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion:
A problem of presence: beyond Scripture in an African church by Matthew Engelke
Henderson Library, 4th Floor, BX 8095 .E54 2007
We also have the Honorable Mention book:
Islamic narrative and authority in Southeast Asia: from the 16th to the 21st century by Thomas Gibson
Henderson Library, 4th Floor, BP 63 .I52 S825 2007
