42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 7-10, 2011 New Brunswick, NJ – Hyatt New Brunswick Host Institution:  Rutgers University CFP: Rap Music’s
[more...]

Edited by Dr Pauline Manley and Dr Mark Evans Published by Equinox, London About the Volume Over the last 40 years, while the musical film
[more...]

A conference to mark the completion of an AHRC funded project: ‘The Promotion of Live Music in the UK, An Historical, Cultural and Institutional Analysis’

Emerging at the confluence of diverse streams, the genre we know as jazz was made predominantly by African-Americans for a good deal of its history. Indeed, African-American musicians and critics have often claimed the form as their own, part of their people’s struggle to assert their humanity in the face of a racialised structure of power which would deny it.

Popular music is a dynamic cultural force. The acts of listening, playing, dancing, composing and recording are undertaken in a constant state of flux, further complicated by flows of space and time. This conference invites papers that consider popular music as a powerful social agent.