Saturday, April 11, 2015

CBMR announces a new blog series, “Depth Sounding,” a platform for short-form scholarship that spans the music—sound continuum of the African diaspora.

The Center for Black Music Research is proud
to announce a new blog series, “Depth Sounding,”
a platform for short-form scholarship that
spans the music—sound continuum of the
African diaspora. The essays in this series are
intended for a wide audience, including the
educated public as well as non-specialist
academics. We welcome contributions on any
aspects of black sound and/or music, including:
  • histories, from local to global
  • sketches of emerging practices and genres
  • reviews of new works of art and scholarship
  • interviews with artists and scholars
  • cultural and urban soundscapes
  • archival research and studies
  • critical essays, cultural commentary, and
    personal histories
“Depth Sounding” seeks to be a space for up-to-
the-minute thought and one in which authors
can experiment with format, media, content,
argument construction, etc. in ways that
privilege or more fully integrate sound.
Contributions or proposal ideas may
be submitted to cbmrblog@colum.edu.
During the course of its creation and installation,
FREE/PHASE, a public sound installation
commissioned by the CBMR of media
artists Mendi and Keith Obadike, will be a
central blog focus. Proposals exploring that
project’s themes (freedom and black music
broadly) will be especially welcome.
Submissions should follow the guidelines in the
CBMR Style Guide.
Copyright © 2015 Center for Black Music
Research, All rights reserved.
Columbia College Chicago


Comment by email:
That's fantastic Bill! Thank you, friend!  Warm regards,
M.  [Monica Hairston O'Connell]

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