"Global Popular Music and the Politics and Aesthetics
of Language Choice"
(for a Special Issue of the PCA journal entitled Popular
Music and Society).
We are interested in reading proposals that deal with the politics and
aesthetics of language and language choice in a full range of popular
musics, Western or non-Western, contemporary or of the past. Scholars
from a variety of disciplinary perspectives are encouraged to send
submissions (rhetoric, linguistics, political science, cultural
studies, musicology, ethnomusicology, sociology, folklore,
communications, etc.). Topics may include (but are not limited to): the
dissemination of English through popular music in post-WW II Europe;
language choice and the crossover phenomenon; vocal style and the
simulation of regional dialect in country musics; French and native
languages in the popular musics of the Francophone world; the politics
and aesthetics of diction; language choice in Asian or Latin American
heavy metal; dialect singing in the Tin Pan Alley tradition; the
relationship between Tejano and Nashville style country music; the
aesthetics of incomprehensibility (singing in or listening to a
language one does not understand); Global Pop and World English; pop
and language choice in Asia; dialect and class in popular music;
language choice in African diasporic musics; regionalism and dialect in
Indian pop; dialect appropriation, diction, language choice, and the
speech-song continuum; British and American Englishes in 1960s rock;
the politics and aesthetics of standard and regional dialects; code
switching in popular music; dialect and the creative use of diction;
nationalism and language choice in Quebec. In order to be considered,
please send a two page summary via e-mail or regular paper mail. If
your proposal is promising, we'll ask you for an essay of roughly 18-32
pages, on paper and disk, prepared according to the Popular Music and
Society submission guidelines. The disk copy must be IBM compatible,
WordPerfect preferred, or an ASCII, Generic, or other easily accessible
word processing system.
If your proposal is oriented towards rhetoric, linguistics, literary
theory, general popular culture, and general humanities, send to:
Michael T. Carroll, English Dept. Highlands University
Las Vegas, New Mexico 87701 USA.
E-mail: spike_cee@yahoo.com
If your proposal is oriented toward musicology, ethnomusicology, or
the social sciences, send to:
Harris M. Berger Music Program, 405 Academic Bldg., Texas A & M
University College Station, Texas 7783-4240 USA
E-mail: hberger@unix.tamu.edu
*Deadlines: For Proposals: Dec 15, 1999; For Papers: June 15, 2000
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