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The 30th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
The National Archives, Kew, UK
Wednesday 5 - Friday 7 July 2006. Call
For Papers
Photography
exhibition The Caribbean in the Age of Modernity
Aunty
& Uncle Programme 2006
"History…to
inform of (the) past as an essential guide to…future
action"
Eric Williams, August 31, 1962
The
Eric Williams Memorial Collection (EWMC) – the museum,
library and archives of the "Father of the Nation" and
first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago at the University
of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago campus - was inaugurated
in March 1998 by former US Secretary of State, Colin L. Powell.
It was named to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 1999.
For information about the Collection and its activities, please
visit: http://www.mainlib.uwi.tt/eric.html; http://palmm.fcla.edu/eew/ or email: ewc.suilan@juno.com .
African Heritage Studies Association 39th Annual
Conference
CALL
FOR PAPERS – “WOMEN, HIP-HOP, AND POPULAR MUSIC”
For a proposed
special issue of Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism,
we invite critical essays, creative work, and interviews or conversations
with music artists/practitioners from a variety of disciplines,
practices, and cultural scenes. Music may be broadly defined
to include spoken word, dub poetry, DJs, low- and high-tech innovations,
etc. We especially invite submissions that highlight global and
transnational perspectives on women, hip-hop from around the
globe, and other forms of popular music, such as rock, pop, punk,
alternative, new age, R&B, gospel, jazz, country, Latin,
reggae/ragga/reggaeton, soca-calypso, Bengali, various “world” music
genres, etc. High priority will be given to submissions that
utilize critical race feminist analyses.
Subjects covered may include but are not limited to the following:
- popular music and feminist consciousness (performers, political
activists, lyricists, producers, compilers of music CD/albums,
club and radio DJs, etc. who engage in “feminist” and
social justice issues).
- marginal pop music personas (e.g. Enya, Zap Mama, Sade, Me’shell
Ndegeocello, Ani Difranco, Björk).
- historical recoveries and research of women’s popular
music in the past.
- marginalization of women musicians (including vocalists and
rappers) in music industries and/or academic studies.
- representations of women in popular music, the media, public
performances, etc.
- music at the movies (marketing of movie soundtracks, silent
movie era, movie portrayals of music artists, Bollywood playback
singers and item girls, etc.).
- local artists, global markets, world music scenes (cross-cultural
efforts by women music artists to increase their profiles, cultural
appropriations, and/or globalizing trends).
- appropriation of women’s music (male and/or mainstream
takeover of female music expressions).
- hip-hop, popular music, and the prison or military industrial
complex.
- teaching hip-hop and popular music in the feminist classroom.
Essays should not exceed 9,000 words or 35 pages, including
all endnotes and references (typed and double-spaced, using Chicago
style); abstracts should be 150 words. Please send email attachments
in Word format to R.
Dianne Bartlow at dianne.bartlow@csun.edu and Janell Hobson at
jhobson@albany.edu by December 1, 2006.
Announcing
THE 2006 BARBARA T. CHRISTIAN LITERARY AWARD
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CSA members now eligible for journal discount
Lexington
Books ( a subsidiary or Rowman & Littlefield),
publisher of the multi-disciplinary Caribbean Diaspora studies
journal Wadabagei. A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diasporas,
has announced that with immediate effect all current members
of the Caribbean Studies Association will be eligible for a special
20% discount on subscriptions to the journal.
CSA members who are interested in subscribing to the journal
should contact the editor, Holger Henke (Metropolitan College
of New York), at hhenke@igc.org, for a special code and online
subscription instructions.
Wadabagei
is owned by the Caribbean Research Center at Medgar Evers College
(CUNY). The journal’s website hosted at
http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/journals/wadabagei/Index.shtml.
Teaching for Change and the Council on Latin American and Iberian
Studies at Yale University are proud to announce the publication
of Caribbean Connections: The Dominican Republic.
This new resource
features invaluable oral histories, poetry, and fiction for the
student, along with lesson plans for educators. Authors include
Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz and Pedro Mir.
A
Spanish language companion is available.
Grenada:
The Maroon Spirit was filmed on the island of Grenada
in
the Eastern Caribbean in November of 2004, two months after
Hurricane
Ivan devastated the island nation on September 7.
This
fifty-minute documentary film is the first feature length film
by
the Pumpkinhead Production Company, an independent film production
house located in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. The
DVD is
being sold online at www.grenadamaroonspirit.com or by mailing
Pumpkinhead Production Company, P.O. Box 283, 720 6th Street,
NewWestminster, BC V3L 3C5. The Pumpkinhead Production Company
is
committed to donating 20% of the money from gross sales to aid
in
Grenada’s recovery. Click here for more
Insularismo:
An Insight into the Puerto Rican Character by Antonio S. Pedreira,
Translated by Aoife Rivera Serrano. $19.95 ISBN: 1-932982-40-X
Long overdue, this Latin American classic is
the first book to examine the psychological effects of Spanish
and U.S. imperialism on Puerto Ricans.
Reviews,
details and how to order: - click here [adobe
pdf document]
