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This panel will investigate the intersection of space, sound, and history in black diasporic cultural production by drawing on the insights of sound studies, which stress the material facts of sonic experience, as well as those of human and critical geography, which stress the role of the (re)production of space in social relations. It will also, following Joseph Roach’s work, remain tuned into genealogies of performance, memory, and violence in the circum-Atlantic world. How have writers and artists in the black diaspora re-imagined and/or represented space in terms of music and/or sound? How has such re-imagining reckoned with the long history of violence that marks the diaspora? How have different areas of the diaspora—from Jamaica to Chicago to London—responded to these questions of space, sound, and violence? Papers that emphasize the material, mediated, and inscripted aspects of these questions will be particularly welcomed.
Please send abstracts (300–500 words) to John Hyland, University at Buffalo: jhyland@buffalo.edu
43nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester
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