UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER

Call for Chapters: Censorship of Popular Music in Africa, 10/03


* Dr Martin Cloonan and Michael Drewett are presently accepting
chapter proposals for an edited book on the censorship of popular music in Africa.

* The proposed book will provide a series of country-based case
studies.

* Authors are sought who are able to provide theoretically-based
accounts of popular music censorship in pre - and/or post independence African countries.

* Chapters should detail forms of censorship and (preferably)
resistance to that censorship.

* Proposals on individual musicians and regions will be considered.

* Final deadline for proposals is the 5th October 2003.

* Deadline for completed first drafts of chapters is the 31st May 2004.

* Chapters should be no more than 5000 words in length and in English.

* Dr Cloonan is the author of Banned! Censorship of popular music in
Britain 1967-92 and co-editor of Policing Popular Music. He teaches at Glasgow University, Scotland and serves on the executive committee of Freemuse (Free Musical Expression), an international organization concerned with the censorship of popular music.

* Michael Drewett has completed a PhD on the censorship of popular
music in South Africa in the 1980s and is the producer of the documentary film 'Stopping the music' about an anti-apartheid singer and the security branch policeman assigned to end his career. Michael Drewett teaches at Rhodes University, South Africa and is a member of Freemuse.

* Proposals and enquiries should be sent to Michael Drewett at:

e-mail: M.Drewett@ru.ac.za

fax no: (27) 46 6225570

postal address: Department of Sociology
Rhodes University PO Box 94 Grahamstown 6140
South Africa

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