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UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies

Wavelengths: Irish and American Music

EVENT CANCELLED

CALL FOR PAPERS

Date: 4-7 September 2008, University College Dublin & Temple Bar
Plenary speakers will include: Eric Lott (University of Virginia), Mick Moloney (New York University), Paul Muldoon (Princeton University), Mícheál Ó'Súilleabháin (University of Limerick)

This event has been conceived a by a group of scholars, musicians and producers to provide a focus for performance and study of Irish and American musical relations. These relations have a long and deep history, intertwining the cultures and identities of Irish and American peoples. The event will explore and celebrate these relations via a programme that combines conference presentations and musical performances.

Wavelengths will focus on the back-and-forwards movement of musical traditions between Ireland and the United States and identify newer currents and fusions in transatlantic music. We invite proposals for conference presentations – individual papers and panels. Conference themes will include, but will not be limited to:

• Race and ethnicity
  
• Nation and identity
  
• Class and work
  
• Innovators (performers, technicians, collectors, commentators)
  
• Emigration and diaspora
  
• Historical events
  
• New technologies
  
• Scotch-Irish influences
  
• Genres – traditional, folk, country, rock, jazz, soul, Celtic punk, hip hop…
  
• Social functions of music
  
• Representations of music in other media – film, photography, literature

Brief abstracts (200 words) plus a short biographical statement should be sent to Catherine Carey at Catherine.Carey@ucd.ie by 1st June 2008.

The conference will take place at the UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies.