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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:34:34 -0400 (GMT-0400)
From: LORETTA COLLINS <lcollins-AT-rrpac.upr.clu.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers



Please post the following call for papers. Thank you.

Loretta Collins
Associate Professor
English Department
Humanities Faculty
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

CALL FOR PAPERS

Seeking essays for a collection on Caribbean/US or Caribbean/Canadian
performance poetry, music, and sound.

Abstracts by October 15th, to:

Dr. Loretta Collins, Associate Profesor, English Department, Humanities
Faculty, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
lcollins-AT-rrpac.upr.edu.clu

The essay collection <Bridges of Sound: the Translocality of Caribbean
Performance Poetry and Music>  will examine some of the more
innovative works arising from 1) the artists movements back and forth from
the Caribbean region to locations in North America (the US and Canada); 2)
the engagement of Caribbean poets and musicians with expressive forms
found in the Americas (such as Kamau Brathwaite's interest in African
American and Caribbean "Shango train songs"); 3) creative collaborations
between Caribbean performance poets/ musicians and artists of various
North American communities (such as the recordings of reggae and dub
poetry by Jamaican and First Nations/ Native American artists); and 4)
the Caribbeanization of North American cities spaces, musical cultures,
poetic productions, and
sound structures (in such works as Wyclef Jean's rap/ musical CD
Carnival, Nuyorican poet Willie Perdomo's poetry,  or dub poet,
playwright, 
and film maker ahdri zhina mandielas "dub theatre" piece dark diaspora in
dub). The collection will be issued with a CD, so we have the opportunity
of enhancing our articles with audio
footnotes.

The University of Wisconsin Press series editors Adalaide Morris, Lynn
Keller, and Alan Golding have expressed great interest in the proposal.
The Press will provide a conditional contract upon receiving the abstracts
from potential contributors.  I welcome you to respond to my request for
your 
participation by sending me an e-mail or letter briefly delineating the
subject you
 would like to research and write about. Contributors are needed for some
of the
 suggested topics listed above. Other topics are welcomed. I will need to
receive the abstract by October 15. The deadline for the articles will be
Februrary 1, 2003. It is my hope that
the articles will include, whenever possible, interviews with the artists,
critical responses to live performances or recordings, and audio samples
of poetry readings or musical events.
                                                                     
 



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