Gina de Vries (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} queershoulder) wrote,@ 2007-04-24 17:35:00 |
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CFS: oral traditions, music, & gender
My friend Susannah is making this zine. You should contribute. Everybody listens to music, everybody has a story about it.
Read on...
g.
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email contact: Susanna Myrseth -- smyrseth at wesleyan dot edu
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!!!!
a mother walks with her young child down a crowded city street, teaching
the toddler a song she learned during a childhood spent traversing rural
paths and mountainsides.
a group of campers sits by a dying fire, singing a round their counselors
taught them. even five years later, the lilting rise and fall of voices
will make them think of this particular summer.
two friends are tapping their fingers on the windowsill and making up
harmonies for bubblegum pop songs they know by heart.
what do these scenes have to do with gender? what do oral traditions of
music look like in our lives today?
this is a call to submit your story to a zine i'm putting together about
oral traditions in musical culture. has anyone ever taught you a song? has
a song you heard and memorized played an important role in your life? then
you are an authority on this topic and i want to hear what you have to
say. i'm looking for personal anecdotes, poems, essays, drawings,
collages, lyrics and anything else that can be photocopied and bound
between two covers. i want your stories about folk and punk and hip hop
and camp songs and soul and funk and metal and ska and every other genre
under the sun. in particular, i'm curious about the ways in which oral
traditions intersect with gender, sexuality, nationality, race, class,
commodification and history.
the fine print: i'm in a class on gender and music, and this is my final
project. i want to mess with the standards of what is seen as legitimate
academic writing and expand on what sorts of stories make it into the
classroom. therefore, a zine and not a research paper, driven by stories
instead of theories. your work can be attributed or anonymous, and i plan
on making a bunch of copies to distribute on campus (and beyond).
please please email me with questions, comments, complaints, submissions,
and ideas. oh, and so i can turn this thing in on time, the deadline is
may 6th (but pretty please send me things as soon as possible).
love,
susanna myrseth
My friend Susannah is making this zine. You should contribute. Everybody listens to music, everybody has a story about it.
Read on...
g.
###
email contact: Susanna Myrseth -- smyrseth at wesleyan dot edu
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!!!!
a mother walks with her young child down a crowded city street, teaching
the toddler a song she learned during a childhood spent traversing rural
paths and mountainsides.
a group of campers sits by a dying fire, singing a round their counselors
taught them. even five years later, the lilting rise and fall of voices
will make them think of this particular summer.
two friends are tapping their fingers on the windowsill and making up
harmonies for bubblegum pop songs they know by heart.
what do these scenes have to do with gender? what do oral traditions of
music look like in our lives today?
this is a call to submit your story to a zine i'm putting together about
oral traditions in musical culture. has anyone ever taught you a song? has
a song you heard and memorized played an important role in your life? then
you are an authority on this topic and i want to hear what you have to
say. i'm looking for personal anecdotes, poems, essays, drawings,
collages, lyrics and anything else that can be photocopied and bound
between two covers. i want your stories about folk and punk and hip hop
and camp songs and soul and funk and metal and ska and every other genre
under the sun. in particular, i'm curious about the ways in which oral
traditions intersect with gender, sexuality, nationality, race, class,
commodification and history.
the fine print: i'm in a class on gender and music, and this is my final
project. i want to mess with the standards of what is seen as legitimate
academic writing and expand on what sorts of stories make it into the
classroom. therefore, a zine and not a research paper, driven by stories
instead of theories. your work can be attributed or anonymous, and i plan
on making a bunch of copies to distribute on campus (and beyond).
please please email me with questions, comments, complaints, submissions,
and ideas. oh, and so i can turn this thing in on time, the deadline is
may 6th (but pretty please send me things as soon as possible).
love,
susanna myrseth
