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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS"; font-weight:700">Settler Sounds: Music, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in the Americas
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS"; font-weight:700">Special Issue of
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS"; font-weight:700; font-style:italic">Journal of the Society for American Music
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS"; font-weight:700">Call for Proposals
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">In her 2016 article on “Settler Colonialism and Enduring Indigeneity,” J. K</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">ē</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">haulani
Kauanui reflects on the rise of settler colonial studies in American Studies and the enduring need for the discipline to engage with Indigeneity. Described as “a structure, not an event” in Patrick Wolfe’s 2006 formulation, the theoretical framework of settler
colonialism has been particularly useful in Indigenous studies and for historians of empire to distinguish between various kinds of colonial and post-colonial nations on the basis of their political economies. It has become increasingly clear in the intervening
decade that the concept of settler colonialism may be useful not only for Indigenous studies, but for any investigation that seeks a comparative framework for understanding the history of societies founded on the dispossession of Indigenous people in the modern
era. Moreover, there are good reasons to think that the idea is also useful for studies that seek to understand the conjunctures between political economies, and such elements of cultural history and social formation as aesthetics, affect, and embodied modes
of knowledge. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">We are soliciting submissions for a special issue of
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS"; font-style:italic">Journal of the Society for American Music</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">, guest edited by Gabriel Solis (UIUC) and Jessica Bissett Perea
(UC Davis), that will investigate sonic aspects of the Americas through a consideration of the distinct, yet related, modes of colonialism and Indigeneity that have come to define the region. The purpose of the issue is twofold: first, to evaluate how a focus
on music and other sonic phenomena may help us better understand the socio-historical formation of the cultures of the Americas; and second, to discover how a focus on modes of discovery, settlement, and expansion of colonial regimes in the Americas and beyond
can help us develop transnational perspectives in American music studies. Critically, we hope to use this issue to grapple with the ongoing relevance of Indigenous people and their claims to sovereignty for American music scholarship. In this moment of global
upheaval, we ask, how can perspectives that foreground American states’ foundational status as settler colonies help bring new relevance to work in our field?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">We welcome writing from any discipline of music and American studies, using any methodology. Individual studies need not be comparative or transnational, but we seek scholarship that identifies
intersectional aspects even of highly localized case studies. We are particularly interested in studies that take a perspective that crosses linguistic divides—Anglo, Iberian, French, Russian, and more—in American music studies and work that engages beyond
the settler-Indigenous dialectic to consider how a settler colonial framework helps understand the sonic dimensions of racialization in the Americas through slavery, immigration, and refugee movement, as well as musical experiences of gender and sexuality.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">Topics may include, but need not be limited to:
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">Music, sound, and Indigeneity in the Americas
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">Music, sound, and resource extraction in the Americas, including
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">contemporary struggles over land and water rights
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">Intersections between Indigeneity and sonic racial formation
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">Sound, citizenship, and sovereignty
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">Music and sounds of the “frontier”
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">Music and empire-building
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">Sonic gendering of the colonial subject
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">Music, internationalism, and government policy in the Americas
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">Postcolonialism and critique in music of the Americas
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">Music, missions, and other religious institutions in the Americas
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">For questions regarding this special issue, contact Gabriel Solis:
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"; color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="mailto:gpsolis@illinois.edu">gpsolis@illinois.edu</a>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times"">Article submissions should be sent electronically to JSAM’s Editor by
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times"; font-weight:700">April 1, 2018.
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times"">[If this deadline isn't possible, but you are interested, please email the editor to inquire about later submissions.] Please indicate in the body of your message that you wish your article to be considered
for this special issue: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">Prof. Loren Kajikawa<br>
Editor, </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS"; font-style:italic">Journal of the Society for American Music
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">e-mail: </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"; color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="mailto:jsameditor@gmail.com">jsameditor@gmail.com</a>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">Additional information:
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times"">Authors should send their submissions in MS Word and also include an abstract of no more than 200 words. The submission itself should be anonymous throughout the text and notes. Articles should range from
5,000 to 10,000 words (excluding notes). Longer articles will be considered but may be edited for length.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times"">The </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times"; font-style:italic">Journal of the Society for American Music
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times"">employ humanities style citations following the Chicago Manual of Style, 17</span><span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times"; vertical-align:5pt">th
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times"">Edition. </span></p>
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