[Discussion] From Juke'n to Slammin--Call for Essays

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 From Juke'n to Slammin--Call for Essays

This edited volume seeks to bring together interdisciplinary essays that
consider the linkages between juke joints, rent parties, dance halls,
and poetry slams. We are interested in essays that establish these
spaces and practices as manifestations of "hidden transcripts," or
"dissident socio-political cultures." Essays should interrogate these
sites and practices as sources of resistance, contestation,
entertainment, creativity, and or economy.

Submission Guidelines

    * Please-mail or email (MSWord attachment) a two page proposal with
      bibliography and Curriculum Vitae by January 10, 2005.
    * Final essays will be between 20-25 pages double space including
      endnotes and bibliography. Completed essays are due April 01, 2005.

*Note: This work is not under contract, but has been solicited by
several university and non-university presses*

Editors:
Beverly A. Bunch-Lyons, author of Contested Terrain..., Routledge Press,
2002; In Progess, Juke Joint Culture in the Segregated South, 1875-1975,
an examination of the economics of underground cultures, the
commodification of the body within the context of juke joint culture,
black masculine and feminine identity formation within the context of
marginalization, violence, and contradictions between public and private
discourse (emanating from legal and religious sources) on juke joint
culture and the attending moonshine industry.

Angela M. Leonard, editor of Daniel J. Boorstin: A Comprehensive
Bibliography. Greenwood Press, 2000; In Progress, Divas of the Joint, an
ethno-musicological study of female jazz and blues artists of the juke
joint.

	Beverly A. Bunch-Lyons
Associate Professor of History
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
National Capital Region Campus
1101 King Street, Suite 611
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.518.2973 (o)
703.518.3145 (f)
Email: blyons@vt.edu <mailto:blyons@vt.edu>