[Antiquitas] VL: CFP: Heavy Metal & Global Premodernity, Online Conference 24-26 Feburary 2022

[Nissin, Laura H]

Listan hevarit huom.

Parhain terveisin,
Best wishes,

Laura

Lähettäjä: Jeremy Swist<mailto:jswist7 at GMAIL.COM>
Lähetetty: sunnuntai 11. heinäkuuta 2021 15.42
Vastaanottaja: CLASSICISTS at liverpool.ac.uk<mailto:CLASSICISTS at liverpool.ac.uk>
Aihe: CFP: Heavy Metal & Global Premodernity, Online Conference 24-26 Feburary 2022


Call for Abstracts

Heavy Metal and Global Premodernity

An interdisciplinary online conference hosted by the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University

Organizers: Charlotte Naylor Davis and Jeremy J. Swist

February 24th-26th, 2022, via Zoom


In this conference we aim to gather investigators and artists to critically examine how heavy metal music and its culture (or scenes) have interacted with, been inspired by, and commented on global premodernity. We wish to seize the moment when the study of heavy metal music and the study of the reception of classical, religious, and historical texts and artifacts in popular culture have risen to prominence.


While heavy metal in Europe and North America has obviously been seen to interact with western religious symbolism and draw on classical icons, the metal scenes elsewhere—especially those in the majority world—draw on a diverse range of imagery, folk tales, and indigenous history to tell their stories and inspire their work. This conference aims to create a wider view of the place of premodern histories and musical traditions within heavy metal.


One of the joys of heavy metal music for many fans is the breadth of this now half-century-old, global counterculture. Our aim is to create interdisciplinary dialogue between those working on the interaction between popular culture and traditional/historical narratives and culture by using heavy metal music as a central focus.


We welcome abstracts for 15- to 20-minute presentations (creative and traditional) related to metal’s reception of the history and culture of any period, people, and place from premodern and precolonial worlds. We define global premodernity as human culture of any period roughly prior to 1600 CE, and we have chosen this delineation to be inclusive of texts, traditions, and narratives outside of the traditional study of classics or biblical studies which often ignores the rich cultural history of the majority world and narratives outside standard eurocentric education.


Potential topics include, but are not limited to, to following:


  *   Premodern or neoclassical art, architecture, dress, symbols, and/or other material culture in album artwork, music videos, promotional photography, and live performances
  *   The incorporation of premodern music and/or instruments into metal songs
  *   The reception of historical, literary, and religious and philosophical texts and ideas in song lyrics
  *   Issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, and the reception and inclusion of premodern and contemporary women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other historically marginalized groups
  *   Political activism of musicians who engage with premodernity
  *   Interviews and/or auto-ethnographies of fans, musicians, (photo)journalists, and/or scholars
  *   Methodologies in the study of metal’s reception of premodernity
  *   Pedagogical strategies for teaching premodern history and cultures with metal songs
  *   Performance and creative demonstrations of music.


Please send abstracts and any questions to metalpremodernity at gmail.com<mailto:metalpremodernity at gmail.com>. The submission deadline is September 15th, 2021.


Abstracts should be roughly 300 words maximum, and include author name and affiliation (if appropriate). Submissions are especially welcomed from graduate students and early career researchers in any discipline, as well as from those involved in the world metal scene as musicians, journalists, and fans.


We are concerned to make the conference as accessible as possible to disabled people and those for whom English is not their first language. Captions will be supplied, but if you have other access needs for presentation please mention these upon submission of your abstract and we will work with you to fulfill these.

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