Folklore Forum

Special Issue:  Cultural Manifestations of Violence and Socio-Cultural Trauma

Folklore Forum is seeking articles for its upcoming special issue on cultural manifestations of violence and socio-cultural trauma.  In particular, this issue seeks to examine the expressive and performative processes through which various cultures respond to, enact, and otherwise negotiate experiences of trauma and violence.  Folklore Forum invites proposals that consider, but are not limited to, the following themes and issues:

-  music in traumatized communities

-  music, dance, poetry as responses to violence

-  disruption to performative communities

-  expressive culture and the amelioration and reconciliation of trauma

-  artists and musicians as political activists against violence

-  historical nostalgia and performative recollections of violence and trauma

-  expressive culture as a means to sustain or circumvent violence

-  cultural appropriation as violence

Deadline for submission is 1 April 2010.

•  All documents should be submitted to folkpub@indiana.edu.

•  In the subject line include attn: submissions editor and your name

•  Only electronic submissions in .doc, .docx, .txt, or .rtf will be accepted.

•  Each copy should have a separate title page. On the title page, please give your name, e-mail address, and telephone number.

•  Your name should not appear on the document pages.

Folklore Forum is a space for the free exchange of ideas on the cutting edge of folklore, folklife and ethnomusicology, a space where up-and-coming scholars can interrogate existing paradigms and cultivate a rich intellectual landscape with a multi-disciplinary perspective.