Call for Papers Music: Traditional, Political, Popular Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 41st Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2020 (Due date: November 20, 2019)

Cody Smith Announcement
Location
New Mexico, United States
Subject Fields
American History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Music and Music History, Popular Culture Studies, Public History

                                        

 

Call for Papers

Music: Traditional, Political, Popular

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

41st Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2020

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 20, 2019

 

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 41st annual SWPACA conference.  One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels.  For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/

 

The Music: Traditional, Political, Popular Area invites submissions from individuals or organized panels (3 or 4 persons) focusing on any topic relating to all aspects of the historical and popular cultural study of music.  Topics can include but are not limited to:

  • individual artists or albums
  • genres of music
  • historical/geographic/cultural influences on music
  • music performances
  • publicity and promotion of music: critics, websites, magazines, street teams
  • music and art
  • technology and music
  • music and memory (nostalgia/preservation/museums/collectibles)
  • music on radio, on television, on stage, and in academia

 

Abstracts on any musical topic will be considered. (Please note: specific SWPACA areas exist for the Grateful Dead and Rap/Hip-Hop scholarship. Proposals on these topics should be directed accordingly.)

Scholars, teachers, professionals, and others interested in music-related topics are encouraged to participate.  Graduate students are also particularly welcome. 

 

All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca

 

For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general, please see the Proposal Submission FAQs and Tips page at http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/

 

Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 words. Including a brief bio in the body of the proposal form is encouraged, but not required.  

 

For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs and Tips page.  

 

The deadline for submissions is November 20, 2019. This is the hard deadline.

   

SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due January 1, 2020.  For more information, visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/

 

Registration and travel information for the conference is available at http://southwestpca.org/conference/conference-registration-information/

 

In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org/

If you have any questions about the Music: Traditional, Political, Popular area, please contact its Area Chair, Cody H. Smith, PhD, North Lake College, codysmith@dcccd.edu

 

We look forward to receiving your submissions! See you in ABQ!

 

 

Contact Information

Cody Smith, PhD

Contact Email
codysmith@dcccd.edu