28.4116, Calls: Linguistics & Literature/Italy

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Subject: 28.4116, Calls: Linguistics & Literature/Italy

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Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 10:50:48
From: douglas ponton [dponton at unict.it]
Subject: Blues in the 21st Century: Myth, Social Expression and Transculturalism

 
Full Title: Blues in the 21st Century: Myth, Social Expression and Transculturalism 
Short Title: BMSET 

Date: 23-Nov-2018 - 24-Nov-2018
Location: Catania, Italy 
Contact Person: Douglas Ponton
Meeting Email: dmponton at unict.it

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

Since its beginnings in the late 19th century, the Blues has been more than a
music style with a seminal impact on 20th century popular music. As a medium
of social expression, it articulated the tribulations of an entire black
culture, male and female. Discourses about race were as much an integral part
of the evolution of the blues as were those of class, when young white kids -
in America and European countries, especially the UK - adopted the music for
their political and social ends. Idealising/romanticising black models of
living, their interpretations verged on myths on the one hand, but on the
other brought out transcultural features of the blues in their performative
acts. Other realms of performing arts, such as literature, films, etc., speak
of the flexibility of the blues. Its commercialisation by white and black
record companies, or annual festivals, is another proof of its durability.
Bearing this in mind, any doubt about the survival of the blues in the 21st
century is rendered obsolete. 

This multi-disciplinary conference aims to trace the socio-political,
historical, economic, transcultural, linguistic and musicological dimensions
of the blues, and to emphasise the viability of this artistic and social
medium.




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