[csaa-forum] Call for Contributions: Cultural Seeds

[Karen Welberry]

Please find pasted and attached a Call for Contributions for a proposed collection on Nick Cave:

Cultural Seeds: new perspectives on the work of Nick Cave



Edited by Karen Welberry (La Trobe University) and Tanya Dalziell (The University of Western Australia)



Rationale

Nick Cave is now widely recognised as a composer, curator, musician, author, artist and screenwriter.  From The Boys Next Door to The Secret Life of the Love Song to author of the recently acclaimed screenplay, The Proposition (2005), Cave's career spans nearly 30 years and has produced a comprehensive (and sometimes controversial) body of work that has arguably shaped contemporary 'alternative' culture.  As such, a comprehensive appraisal of Cave's work and its significance is timely and necessary.



To date, narratives on Cave detail heroin-addled debauchery and oscillate between veneration and distaste. Such stories are central to an understanding of the 'Cave myth', yet Cave's complex oeuvre is now such that it demands sustained critical attention.  The central aim of this proposed edited collection is to address this need.



Aims and methodologies

To compile a comprehensive scholarly and critical overview of Cave's work and its wider, ongoing cultural significance.

To bring together international, interdisciplinary scholarship that addresses Cave's work and its influence from a number of perspectives employing innovative critical approaches.

To set in motion dialogue and discussion amongst film scholars, literary academics, musicologists, cultural studies scholars, sociologists, historians, philosophers, theorists and 'popular' commentators at all levels.

To produce an edited collection that is of interest to academics and general audiences alike.



Issues and topics

We are especially interested in chapters that address:



Cave as artist/celebrity/cultural capital

Issues of national and cultural identity

Humour

Religion

Aesthetics

The visual (art-works, music-video, film)

Gender

Violence, death, love and hope

Performance contexts

Artistic collaborations (with the Bad Seeds, John Hillcoat, Anita LaneŠ)

Genre

Influence and inspiration

Words, sounds and narratives

The erotic and the gothic

Romanticism and melancholia



We particularly welcome submissions that address one or more of these issues, and we strongly encourage submissions that engage with other relevant areas or topics of interest.



Submission dates and contact details

We are seeking by 31 January 2006 abstracts of 300-500 words detailing proposed contributions to this volume, and a brief author biography.

Each chapter will be approximately 5000-6000 words, with submission to the editors of completed essays by 31 July 2006.



Please send expressions of interest to both editors:

Karen Welberry: K.Welberry at latrobe.edu.au

Tanya Dalziell: tdalziel at cyllene.uwa.edu.au



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