CFP: Sounds of Freedom: Music and Performance Across the Black Atlantic World
Call for Papers African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal in partnership with the Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul University, announce a Call for Papers on “Sounds of Freedom: Music and Performance Across the Black Atlantic World” for a special issue of journal. Throughout the Black Atlantic world, African diaspora populations have used music and performative practices as critical discursive spaces for the making of a “new” African subject and created a dynamic and transnational space of ‘traversal, cultural exchange, production and belonging’ (Gilroy 1993). Indeed, music and performance have been used as a form of language