{"id":9,"date":"2018-11-27T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phish2019\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2019-08-22T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T16:54:09","slug":"join-us-may-17-19-2019-at-oregon-state-university","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/phish2019\/join-us-may-17-19-2019-at-oregon-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phish Studies:<\/strong><\/h1>\n

An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Band, its Music, and its Fans<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Oregon State University is pleased to announce the first peer-reviewed academic conference devoted to the music and fan culture of the improvisational rock band Phish. The conference will take place on Oregon State\u2019s campus in Corvallis, Oregon, May 17-19, 2019.<\/p>\n

For the past thirty-five years, Phish has been consistently building a fervent fan base and impressive live performance history, often working outside traditional avenues of the mainstream recording industry. They staged the world\u2019s largest New Year\u2019s Eve concert in December 1999 with a marathon seven-hour set, redefined the modern American music festival, and performed a record-setting thirteen night run at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden without repeating a single song during the summer of 2017. Despite these achievements, Phish has received far less scholarly attention than many other acts in popular music.<\/p>\n

Bringing scholars together from diverse academic disciplines, we welcome a wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the sonic, narrative, performative, visual, and cultural worlds of Phish, including but not limited to:<\/p>\n