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Archive for February, 2009
February 20, 2009 at 2:05 pm · Filed under Music, Sociology/Anthropology
“Beyond Southern Borders” is the theme of the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society in Wilmington, NC, March 12-14. The theme is explained on the website:
“What is, where is, ‘the South?’ One possibility is, clearly, an anthropology – in its broadest 4-fields meaning – of the Southern United States. If so, then where are those boundaries? There is the invisible, yet quite sturdy, Mason-Dixon Line, the very real Mississippi River and Ohio River, the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and a chain-link fence at the Texas-Mexico border that is also the Rio Grande. There are multiple versions of ‘the South’ depending on your worldview. When we consider American Indian populations, then the reaches of Southern Anthropology may well lead to the Caribbean or California. When we also consider immigration and emigration to and from ‘the South,’ we reach on to Mexico, Central and South America, indeed, to the entire world.” (Thanks, Dr. S.!)
And a little unrelated lagniappe. Because it’s Friday and sunny.
When musicians become DJ’s:
Theft of the Dial (inaugural edition hosted by Michael Franti)
And how many of you are old enough to remember Wendy and Lisa before they were doing the soundtracks to your fave TV shows? Catch DJ Wendy at midnight tonight, or later on the archive.
(By the way, good time yesterday with Biological Anthropology students. Holler anytime I can be of assistance with your research. Find me on Facebook if you like.)
February 13, 2009 at 12:26 pm · Filed under Sociology/Anthropology
The following announcement is being circulated:
The Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana
invites applications for a travel grant to fund research at the Communal
Studies Collection at USI’s David L. Rice Library. The Communal Studies
Collection’s rich archival materials contain information on over 600
historic and contemporary communal societies, utopias, and intentional
communities. A complete listing of communities can be found at
http://www.usi.edu/library/communalstudies.asp. Particular strengths
include the Harmonists, The Farm, Shakers, Twin Oaks, and Amana, but the
collection covers American communalism much more broadly. The
University of Southern Indiana (www.usi.edu) is located in Evansville,
25 miles from the historic communal town of New Harmony, Indiana.
Applicants may be graduate students or established scholars from any
discipline that involves the study of communalism (such as history,
English, anthropology, sociology, psychology, etc.) The grant will fund
research up to $2,000 to be used by April 15, 2010. Applications are
due May 1, 2009, and must consist of a letter detailing the project and
its significance to communal studies, a proposed budget, and a vita.
Applications can be sent to mjgrow@usi.edu or Matthew Grow, Center for
Communal Studies, 8600 University Boulevard, Evansville, IN 47712.
February 11, 2009 at 9:12 am · Filed under Music, Sociology/Anthropology
The following announcement is being circulated:
New Orleans Historical and Cultural Review Call for Articles And Creative
Works
The New Orleans Historical & Cultural Review is designed to focus on the
history and culture of New Orleans and the surrounding region, revealing
the region through scholarly research and through creative works inspired
by the area or created by residents of the Greater New Orleans Area in
reflection of their unique heritage. The Southern University at New
Orleans Library publishes the journal irregularly with the collaboration
of the SUNO College of Arts & Sciences. The first issue of this journal
was funded by a Louisiana State Board of Regents Enhancement Grant for FY
2006-2007. Volume One, Issue One can be viewed online at
http://www.suno.edu/News/docs/NOHCR_Volume_One_Issue_One_WEB.pdf
Submissions are evaluated for inclusion in the New Orleans Historical &
Cultural Review by 2 separate peer review boards: one for research &
professional reportage submissions; the other for creative works
submissions. Manuscripts and creative works should be submitted by April
30, 2009 for inclusion in the second volume of the publication, slated for
release as an online publication in late Summer 2009. Submissions received
after the cutoff date will be considered for inclusion in the following
issue.
Research Articles
Research articles produced by scholars worldwide judged by the editorial
board to meet the standards of scholarship and to advance the study and
understanding of the culture and history of New Orleans and the
surrounding region will be accepted for publication. Article Length 10-20
pages (3,000-5,000 words)
Book Reviews
Reviews of books by authors resident in Southern Louisiana, or focusing on
the history and culture of New Orleans and the surrounding region may be
submitted for consideration. Review Length 3-4 pages (900-1,200 words)
Creative Works
Submissions of original creative works produced by the citizens of New
Orleans and its region, or which focus on the region and its culture will
also be considered for publication. Creative works can include short
stories, drama, poetry, essays, visual arts, music, and film. As the
journal will be online, music and film can be recorded on CD or DVD for
mounting and playback as part of the publication. Visual and fine arts can
be photographed for reproduction.
Copyright
Authors of research articles and originators of creative works published
will by their submission of materials for consideration, give certain
copyright permissions to the editors of the publication. Originators and
authors will retain copyright to their own work, while granting the
publication full copyright clearance for use of their work within the
publication, as an advertisement or fund-raising tool for the publication,
or as presented in aggregators’ databases as contents of the publication.
General Manuscript Guidelines
Manuscripts should be submitted using APA style format as a guide. Note
that this is a change from our first issue.
All manuscripts should be double-spaced with 1 inch margins.
Manuscripts should be typed in the Microsoft Word program.
Please spell-check all text.
The title page should include the author’s complete name, address,
telephone number, e-mail address, and professional affiliation.
A short author biography, including any prior publication history
highlights, should be included on a separate page behind the title page.
An abstract should be included on a separate sheet behind the bio.
References for works cited should be complete and listed in a separate
Reference List at the end of the article.
Illustrations should be submitted in copy-ready format and, if not the
property of the author, should be accompanied by written permission from
the owner of each image for its reproduction.
Authors are responsible for the factual accuracy of their text and notes.
The editors are not responsible for fact-checking, although discovered
errors will be addressed.
Accepted manuscripts will be edited for grammar, consistency and clarity.
Such edits will be submitted to the author for review and incorporation
prior to publication.
Please submit an electronic copy by either floppy disk, CD/RW or e-mail
attachment. Manuscripts should be mailed to R. Giusti, Leonard S.
Washington Memorial Library, Southern University at New Orleans, 6801
Press Drive, Building 27, New Orleans, Louisiana 70126, United States of
America. E-mail attachments should be sent to rgiusti@suno.edu
Rosanna Giusti
Southern University at New Orleans Library
Lake Campus, Bldg 27
6801 Press Drive
New Orleans, LA 70126
Phone: (504)286-5227
Fax: (504)284-5490
Email: rgiusti@suno.edu
February 3, 2009 at 1:13 pm · Filed under Music, Sociology/Anthropology
The following announcement is being distributed:
CALL FOR ARTICLES
Title: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
Class is not dead! Many people are actively using working class heritage
as a resource to reflect on the past, reassess the present, and plan for
the future. At the beginning of the 21st century there is a growing
tendency for the heritage of working class people to be interpreted and
presented to the public in museums and heritage sites. Working class
communities and organizations are also playing an active role in creating
a memory of their own past. In this proposed volume we aim to theorize and
document this phenomenon as an under-represented form of cultural
heritage.
Drawing on new scholarship in heritage studies, social memory, the public
history of labour, and new working class studies, this volume will
highlight the heritage of working people, communities and organizations.
We particularly urge community and labour movement activists, and scholars
committed to civic engagement who are working closely with working class
communities or organizations, to submit abstracts.
Studies for this volume can include interpretation of working class
communities, working life, industrial heritage or working class culture.
Museums and other forms of formal and informal presentation of the working
class, as well as places to remember and celebrate the labour movement,
are also important topics. Articles dealing with intangible forms of
labour heritage including music, art, skills, workplace experiences, oral
histories, celebrations and festivals are encouraged. We particularly
welcome contributions from those – be they academics, trade unionists or
working class community activists – who explicitly mount challenges to the
received wisdom of the representation of ‘heritage’ as belonging to the
elite, and who foreground working class experience and
self-representation. Articles that can place these themes in explicit
comparative and international perspective are also most welcome.
Word length: 5000-6000 inclusive of bibliography.
The Editors of the volume are Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell
(University of York, UK: LS18@york.ac.uk) and Paul Shackel (University of
Maryland US: pshackel@anth.umd.edu). The volume has an advanced contract
from Routledge as part of their new Key Issues in Cultural Heritage series
(http://www.routledge.com/books/series/Key_Issues_in_Cultural_Heritage),
which is under the General Editorship of William Logan and Laurajane
Smith, and is publishing cutting edge and innovative work in heritage
studies.
Abstracts of not more than 300 words should be sent for consideration,
together with a 50 word biography, by March 31st to: LS18@york.ac.uk with
the view to producing first drafts of papers by the end of September 2009.
Note submissions will be subject to peer review.
February 3, 2009 at 12:42 pm · Filed under Music, Sociology/Anthropology
The following announcement is being distributed:
“THE TRAIN JUST DON’T STOP HERE ANYMORE”:
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM ON THE SOUNDSCAPES OF RURAL AND
SMALL-TOWN AMERICA
Millikin University
Decatur, IL
April 3-4, 2009
The Millikin University College of Fine Arts is pleased to announce
that early registration is now open for “‘The Train Just Don’t
Stop Here Anymore’: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Soundscapes
of Rural and Small-Town America.” The aims of this colloquium are to
reach a broader understanding of the nation’s diverse musical cultures
and practices, to develop strategies by which to investigate musical
culture in rural communities and small towns, and to investigate the
challenges facing professional musicians and culture industries in those
communities. The event will feature a keynote address by Paul F. Wells
(Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University) and
performances by The Special Consensus, The Gordons, and Asleep at the
Wheel.
Registration information may be found at
http://www.kirk-out.com/conference. The early registration fee of
$70 includes one complimentary tickets to performances by The Special
Consensus, The Gordons, and Asleep at the Wheel. Online registrants may
choose their seats to both performances. Conference registration is
fully refundable up to two weeks prior to the conference. Early
registration ends March 13, after which the fee increases to $85.
For more information, please contact Travis Stimeling at (217) 424-3519
or tstimeling at millikin.edu.
Travis D. Stimeling, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Music
Millikin University School of Music
1184 W. Main St.
Decatur, IL 62522
