This is not a typical episode of Rhetoricity. No, this is a call for proposals for the Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and Writing.
A written version of this CFP is available below, and it's also available as a Google Doc here.
Call for Proposals: Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and Writing
We invite proposals for the first-ever Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and Writing, to be held in the cities of Nashville and Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on Sept. 9 & 10, 2018. From Belmont University’s Gallery of Iconic Guitars to historic recording studios like Ocean Way, from Middle Tennessee State University’s Center for Popular Music to its Department of Recording Industry, these two cities are home to a wealth of sound culture and music history, making them a fitting place for a gathering of sonically inclined rhetoric and writing scholars.
Over the past decade, sound has become an increasingly popular topic for rhetoric and writing scholars working in both English and communication (see Gunn et al.). Rhetoric and writing scholars have approached sound from a number of angles, often in ways that resonate with interdisciplinary fields like sound studies and disability studies. This work has appeared across print-based and digital journals in the field, frequently gathered in special issues like enculturation’s “Writing/Music/Culture” (1999), Computers & Composition and C&C Online’s “Sound in/as Compositional Space” (2006), Currents in Electronic Literacy’s “Writing With Sound” (2011), and Harlot’s “Sonic Rhetorics” (2013).
This symposium aims to provide a dedicated space for rhetoric and writing scholars to present and discuss scholarship focused on sound. While we invite a wide range of proposals that take up expansive conceptions of “sound,” “rhetoric,” and “writing,” we offer the following as potential starting points:
Sounding out the disciplinary relationships between rhetoric, writing, and sound studies
Sound and/as accessibility
Listening as a rhetorical practice
How histories of rhetoric, writing, and composition can speak to current studies of sound
Sonic archives and the history of sound
Rhetorical aspects of/approaches to sonic environments
The possibilities of sound as a scholarly medium/mode
The relationship of sound to other media/modes/modalities
Interdisciplinary possibilities for rhetorical work on sound
Voice as a sonic phenomenon
Empirically and/or theoretically informed approaches to integrating sound into rhetoric and/or writing classrooms
We anticipate a relatively small symposium (
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