Peter Narvaez Student Paper Prizes: 2019
IASPM CA
Congratulations to our 2019 student paper prizes winners!
Prize Committee members: Laura Risk, Christina Baade, Steven Baur
French follows.
Winner, English: Elise Imray Papineau
Paper title: âPunk, Politics, and Piety: Bridging the Gap between Conservative Islam and Punk Practice in Java, Indonesiaâ
Committee comments: Using rich ethnographic fieldwork beautifully situated within a well-established social, historical, and cultural context, Papineau weaves a highly original and convincing argument that calls into question standard ethnocentric understandings of punk. She traces how punk music in Java has transitioned from a vehicle for political protest to a platform for pious practices, thereby reconsidering punk as tool capable of bridging gaps rather than merely exacerbating them. Furthermore, she demonstrates how elements of the sacred and profane became enmeshed with neoliberalist principles and consumer culture to highlight the creative agency among Javaâs punks. In so doing she challenges us to rethink canonic concepts in cultural studies.
Winner, French: Louise BarriĂšre
Paper title: âDe la Walpurgisnacht aux festivals punk-feÌministes : musique, militantisme et transferts culturelsâ
Committee comments: With an impressive combination of historical research and ethnography, Barriere puts forward a nuanced argument establishing compelling connections between feminist collective mobilizations in the 1970s and present-day punk-feminist festivals. With evocative and engaging prose, Barriere combines feminist studies, queer studies, and scholarship on punk, as well as more recent work in the emerging field of Night Studies, to demonstrate that the boundaries between 2nd- and 3rd-wave feminism are less rigid than has commonly been understood. In so doing, she illuminates the musical, rhetorical, and collectivist strategies by which female and queer activists have worked to âtake back the night.â Congratulations Louise.
Honourable Mention: Claire McLeish
Paper Title: âAll Samples Cleared: Hip-hop Sampling Aesthetics and the Legacy of Grand Upright v. Warnerâ
Committee Comments: McLeish provides a detailed corpus study of over 300 songs from between 1988 and 1993 to illuminate the ramifications of the landmark Grand Upright versus Warner copyright case on sampling practices in hop-hop. She clearly lays out the evidence to challenge the common view that the Grand Upright decision had a catastrophic impact on hip-hop, and she ably foregrounds the resilience, creativity, and versatility with which hip-hop artists responded to the symbolic violence of copyright lawsuits.
Gagnant.e, Anglais: Elise Imray Papineau
Titre: « Punk Politics, and Piety: Bridging the Gap between Conservative Islam and Punk Practice in Java, Indonesia »
Commentaires: Ă lâaide dâun travail de terrain riche situĂ© dans un magnifique contexte social, historique et culturel, Papineau dresse un argument trĂšs original et convaincant qui remet en question les conceptions ethnocentriques typiques du punk. Elle dĂ©crit comment la musique punk Ă Java est passĂ©e dâun vĂ©hicule de protestations politiques Ă une plateforme pour les pratiques pieuses, permettant ainsi de reconsidĂ©rer le punk cette fois comme un outil qui permet de diminuer les Ă©carts au lieu de les aggraver. Par ailleurs, elle dĂ©montre comment certains Ă©lĂ©ments sacrĂ©s et profanes se sont entremĂȘlĂ©s avec des principes de nĂ©olibĂ©ralisme et de culture de consommation afin de souligner les relations crĂ©atives entre les punks de Java. Ce faisant, elle provoque lâĂ©laboration de nouvelles pensĂ©es relatives aux concepts canoniques des Ă©tudes culturelles.
Gagnant.e, Français: Louise BarriÚre
Titre: « De la Walpurgisnacht aux festivals punk-féministes : musique, militantisme et transferts culturels »
Commentaires: Usant dâune impressionnante combinaison de recherche historique et ethnographique BarriĂšre met de lâavant un argument nuancĂ© qui permet dâĂ©tablir des connexions convaincantes entre les mobilisations fĂ©ministes collectives des annĂ©es 1970 et les festivals fĂ©ministes-punk dâaujourdâhui. Ă lâaide dâune prose Ă©vocatrice et engageante BarriĂšre arrive Ă combiner Ă©tudes fĂ©ministes, Ă©tudes queers et recherches sur le punk en plus de travail plus rĂ©cent dans le domaine Ă©mergent des Night Studies, pour dĂ©montrer que les frontiĂšres entre les 2e et 3e vagues de fĂ©minisme ne sont pas aussi rigides quâil a Ă©tĂ© pensĂ© autrefois. De cette maniĂšre, elle souligne les stratĂ©gies musicales, rhĂ©toriques et collectivistes utilisĂ©es par les militantes femmes et queer qui tentent de se « rĂ©approprier la nuit ». FĂ©licitations Louise.
Mention Honorable: Clair McLeish
Titre: « All Samples Cleared: Hip-hop Sampling Aesthetics and the Legacy of Grand Upright v. Warner »
Commentaires: McLeish offre une analyse dĂ©taillĂ©e de plus de 300 chansons allant de 1988 Ă 1993 afin de souligner les rĂ©percussions liĂ©es au procĂšs Grand Upright versus Warner sur les droits dâauteurs dans la pratique hip-hop du sampling. Elle prĂ©sente de façon claire des preuves qui contestent la conception populaire que la dĂ©cision du Grand Upright ait eu un impact catastrophique sur le hip-hop, et illustre de façon habile la rĂ©silience, la crĂ©ativitĂ© et la versatilitĂ© des artistes de hip-hop pour rĂ©pondre Ă la violence symbolique des procĂšs sur les droits dâauteurs.