26.2621, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Finland

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Subject: 26.2621, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Finland

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Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 13:29:49
From: Elina Westinen [elina.westinen at jyu.fi]
Subject: Hip Hop Studies: North and South

 
Full Title: Hip Hop Studies: North and South 

Date: 19-Nov-2015 - 20-Nov-2015
Location: Helsinki, Finland 
Contact Person: Elina Westinen
Meeting Email: elina.westinen at jyu.fi

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-May-2015 

Meeting Description:

The research network Hip Hop in Finland: Genres and Generations invites scholars to the interdisciplinary, international conference Hip Hop Studies: North and South to be held in Helsinki, Finland on 19-20 November 2015.

As hip hop scholarship continues to develop its analysis of increasingly diverse and dynamic cultural forms, this conference will celebrate and critically examine hip hop in its geographic, cultural, ideological, and musical multiplicities. Embracing a consciously global focus which will allow for in-depth and comparative analyses of hip hop’s many contrary currents, this conference will highlight new research on hip hop by scholars in the Nordic countries, and seek to build dialogue with scholars from the rest of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

The keynote speaker will be Murray Forman (Northeastern University, USA). The conference will also include a plenary session with leading Nordic hip hop scholars Mads Krogh (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Johan Söderman (Malmö University, Sweden), as well as panel comprising of recent ‘hip hop doctors’ Jacob Kimvall (Stockholm University, Sweden), Kristine Ringsager (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Birgitte Sandve (University of Oslo, Norway), Nanna Schneidermann (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Elina Westinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). The scholars will be brought into dialogue with a group of prominent local artists, journalists and youth workers: Aksim (rapper/journalist), Koko Hubara (journalist), Mercedes Bentso (rapper), Tommi Mustaniemi (VJ/educator), Shaka Kampara (rapper/youth worker) and Petri Nieminen (graffiti artist/youth worker).

Call for Papers:

This conference is open to the analysis of all aspects of hip hop culture. We particularly welcome papers addressing:

- Hip hop in the Nordic countries
- Hip hop in the global south
- Hip hop and social inequality
- Hip hop and fashion
- Hip hop and gender
- Hip hop and language
- Hip hop and education
- Underground and mainstream genres
- Multimodalities of hip hop
- Freestyle rap
- Hip hop studies and ethnographic methods
- Hip hop and spirituality
- Hip hop and youth studies
- Musicological studies of hip hop

It is expected that publications will develop from papers presented at the conference. The working language of the conference will be English.

The conference will be preceded by a one-day Master’s Student Hip Hop Studies Seminar on 18 November. Current and prospective Master’s students will be invited to submit material for review and discussion by senior academics and peers in a friendly and interdisciplinary environment. Further details will be made available in due course. 

To participate in the Hip Hop Studies: North and South conference, please email an abstract of 300 words (maximum) along with your name, affiliation, and contact details to hiphop.northsouth at gmail.com before 31 May 2015. Confirmation letters and further information will be sent by 18 June 2015.

This event is organized by the research network Hip Hop in Finland: Genres and Generations, an initiative of the Finnish Youth Research Society. It is made possible with the support of the Music Archive JAPA, the Finnish Youth Research Society, the International Institute for Popular Culture, IASPM Norden, the Finnish Doctoral Programme for Music Research, and the University of Helsinki’s discipline of Social & Cultural Anthropology.

For further information please contact hiphop.northsouth at gmail.com




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