CFP: Stephen Foster (9/15/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)
Call for Proposals: Stephen Foster
National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations / 2007 Joint Conference. April 4-7, 2007. Boston Marriott Copley Place – Boston, Massachusetts.
For more information on the PCA/ACA, please visit http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.
Deadline: September 1, 2006.
Though prevailing notions of the popular frequently focus on newness,19th century
America provides a rich history of popular texts and music. As in our own historical
moment, first-generation critics responded to these texts from a plethora of political
perspectives. Historical analysis of minstrelsy could easily place Frederick