CFP (reminder): "Popular Music and Communities" Graduate Student Conference in Popular Music Studies, Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, Oct 2015

Graduate Student Conference
Center for Popular Music Studies
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
October 2-3, 2015
CFP Deadline: 31 March 2015

The Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University is pleased to announce a graduate student conference on the theme "Popular Music and Communities." Participants will explore how popular music works to establish and complicate constructions of community. The conference will feature keynote presentations by Professor Norma Coates (University of Western Ontario) and Professor Mark Katz (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), as well as an event in collaboration with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's Library and Archives.

For detailed information regarding possible presentation topics, please see the original CFP announcement. All proposals on popular music topics (defined as broadly as possible) will be considered, but we will give special consideration to submissions that cater to the theme.

Each presentation will be thirty minutes: twenty minutes for the paper and ten minutes for questions. Please submit proposals to cpms -at- case.edu by March 31, 2015. Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 300 words, as well as the presenter's name, institutional affiliation, and any special technological requests (all presenters will have access to sound, projector, and an RGB hookup). Abstracts should be sent as Word documents and should exclude any information that may identify the author. Limited travel support may be available for those whose abstracts are chosen. Please send any questions to cpms -at- case.edu.

Daniel Goldmark
Director, Center for Popular Music Studies