Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit and Music and Religion Unit

We seek proposals for a joint session on musical Paganisms and their relationships to various nationalisms, ethnic identities and/or imagined communities. We encourage proposals that address pre-colonial ideologies and textual traditions, heritage construction, figurations of an "other," appropriations of national iconography and folk song in a variety of cultural contexts. As this session is proposed for the pilot AAR Zoom session in June 2024, accepted proposals should if possible outline tracks for a streaming playlist to be listened and engaged by all panelists before the session, as well as announced to interested attendees before the conference.