29.1459, Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/UK

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Subject: 29.1459, Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/UK

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Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:38:38
From: Riitta-Liisa Valijarvi [r.valijarvi at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Multilingual Metal: Sociocultural, Linguistic and Literary Perspectives on Heavy Metal Lyrics

 
Full Title: Multilingual Metal: Sociocultural, Linguistic and Literary Perspectives on Heavy Metal Lyrics 

Date: 20-Sep-2018 - 21-Sep-2018
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi
Meeting Email: r.valijarvi at ucl.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

Heavy metal music has been the subject of scholarly interest since the 1990s.
Early academic studies focused on challenging the negative stereotypes of the
sub-genre. The field has expanded over the years to include a wide range of
sociological and musicological perspectives. For example, the connections
between black and death metal, religion, nationalism and Viking imagery have
been actively investigated, as have other controversies surrounding the scene,
such as racism and sexism. Relatively little attention has been paid
exclusively to heavy metal lyrics in this emerging field, with some notable
exceptions (e.g. Weinstein 1991, Clendinning & McAuley 2009, Spracklen 2015,
Sellheim 2016). There have also been some recent studies on heavy metal
practices and lyrics in individual countries and cultures, e.g. Islamic
societies (LeVine 2008, Wallach 2011, Hecker 2012), China (Wong 2011), the
Easter Islands (Bendrups 2011), Finland (Oksanen 2011) and Norway (von Helden
2017). 

Inspired by these developments in heavy metal studies, the purpose of our
multi-disciplinary conference is to explore further the textual analysis of
heavy metal lyrics written in languages other than English.

Keynote speakers: tbc


Call for Papers:

Inspired by these developments in heavy metal studies, the purpose of our
multi-disciplinary conference is to explore further the textual analysis of
heavy metal lyrics written in languages other than English. In cases where the
primary language of the lyrics is English, loans or elements from other
languages can be the topic of investigation. We welcome papers on, for
example, the following different approaches:

- Poetics, literary analysis and metaphors in heavy metal lyrics
- Themes and localized narratives in heavy metal in a certain language
- Comparative analysis of heavy metal lyrics in different countries, societies
or eras 
- Comparative analysis of metal lyrics by different bands or in different
sub-genres of metal
- Heavy metal in minority and endangered language contexts as a tool for
empowerment and resistance
- Authenticity, originality and legitimacy for national identity in the heavy
metal context
- Gender and race in non-English-medium heavy metal 
- Representations of culture or identity in multilingual metal music 
- Codeswitching and translanguaging in heavy metal
- Intertextuality in heavy metal lyrics
- Sociolinguistics and heavy metal lyrics
- Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis applied
to multilingual metal

Please submit your abstract via Easy Chair by 31 May 2018 using the following
link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mm2018 . The length of abstracts
is 300 words, excluding bibliography. Talks are 20 minutes followed by 10
minutes for discussion. We will notify authors about the acceptance of their
papers by 15 June 2018. Selected papers from the conference will be published
in a peer-reviewed edited volume. If you have any questions about the event,
please email: r.valijarvi at ucl.ac.uk. The event is supported by the UCL Octagon
Small Grants Fund. 

Registration information will be available in June 2018. There will no
conference fee for postgraduate students. 

Organisers: 

Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi (UCL, Uppsala University) 
Amanda Digioia (UCL)
Charlotte Doesburg (UCL)




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