MCLC: Poetry, Music, and Language in Context panel--cfp

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Poetry, Music, and Language in Context panel–cfp
Call for Papers
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Convention
October 6-8, 2016 at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center
Salt Lake City, Utah
Panel: “Chinese Poetry, Music, and Language in Context”
This session invites papers that address any aspect of Chinese poetry, music and language, both premodern and modern. Rather than viewing them as stable and ahistorical literary and linguistic entities with fixed meanings to be decoded, this session proposes to understand their production, circulation, and interpretation in various cultural, political, social, and pedagogical contexts. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Social and political functionality: How does one contextualize poetry and music in terms of their “practical” contexts? How does one understand their effects and performativity in political interaction or identity formation?
The question of materiality: Under what material conditions are they produced, recorded, and circulated? How do the concept of manuscript culture change our notions of poetry and music?
The history of reception: In what historical and intellectual contexts do poetry and music reach out to their audience? How do interpretations shape and reshape the understanding of these works?
Affect and Emotion: How does the emerging field of affect and emotion studies enhance our understanding of Chinese music and poetry?
Language issues: How does language reform affect the writing and performance of poetry and music? How does one address the tension between Mandarin Chinese and Chinese dialects, between classical Chinese and vernacular Chinese?
Inter-genre influence: How does one understand the interrelations between different genres (e.g. poetry in musicals, music in films, poetry in novels, etc.)?
Pedagogy. How does one use poetry and music in Chinese language instruction?
Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words and a short bio to Ling Kang at lingkang at wustl.edu on or before March 1, 2016.
by denton.2 at osu.edu on February 4, 2016
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