Oxford University Press intends to publish a second, revised and expanded edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, originally issued in 1984. Reflecting advances in scholarship during the past quarter-century, the second edition will encompass a greater range of subjects in more detail, thus serving a larger community of readers worldwide.

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Popular Music and Society Special Issue
Edited by Susan Fast and Stan Hawkins
Call for Submissions

Submissions are invited for a special edition of Popular Music and Society that examines constructions of subjectivity in Michael Jackson’s music, with a focus on gender, sexuality, age, disability, and race. Contributors are invited to address ways in which Jackson’s vocality, grooves, rhythmic [...]

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Music and Arts in Action (MAiA) is a new, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that focuses on individual and group encounters with the arts in a practical social context, as well as theoretical work examining music and the arts as active components of human experience.

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Call for contributions
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies (JIMS) is an international peer-reviewed journal. Published twice per year, it aims to establish a broad interdisciplinary platform for music researchers. JIMS especially promotes collaborations between sciences and humanities and between theory and practice, and provocative submissions that stimulate interdisciplinary discussion.
The journal aims:
to contribute towards an understanding [...]

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Submissions are invited for a special edition of Popular Music and Society, which will focus on the general theme of journalism and popular music.
Contributors are invited to consider the topic in diverse ways; possible themes might include:

the status of the "critic"
the politics of fanzines
popular music periodicals and magazines
the functions of the rock/pop journalist: concert reviews; [...]

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Call For Articles for the Journal on the Art of Record Production
Issue 3: Editor – Simon Zagorski-Thomas
Deadline: 30th May 2008
Themes:
Business Models and The Production Process
This would involve articles on issues such how changing production techniques on the question of authorship, copyright and even the ontology of music. It could also include articles on how artists [...]

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The Arab Avant-Garde: Musical Innovation in the Middle East
Edited by Thomas Burkhalter, Kay Dickinson and Benjamin J. Harbert
We are currently soliciting chapter proposals for an anthology on the largely under-researched area of avant-garde music affiliated to the Arab world. All definitions of experimentalism and any disciplinary (or anti-disciplinary) approaches will be considered as we are [...]

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Call For Papers: New Edited Collection
Closing Date: July 1st 2008
Sounding Science Fiction will be an edited collection that examines the way that sound, in all its aesthetic and technological forms, is deployed to audio-sense a science fiction encounter, world, or universe. The collection will be concerned with sound design and sound signification, and with affect [...]

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Call for contributors for an edited collection
Psytrance: Local Scenes and Global Culture
Edited by Graham St John
This volume seeks contributions to the study of psytrance (psychedelic trance) culture. In particular, it will feature research attending to psytrance as a product of intersecting local and global trajectories. International and interdisciplinary, the collection will host contributions from scholars [...]

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Call for contributions for an Edited Collection on Popular Music in Canada
Edited by Charity Marsh and Holly Everett
Working Title: Spanning the Distance: Reflections On Popular Music in Canada
The editors invite proposals for a volume of essays that take up one or more of the following five themes:
Popular Music Studies in Canada: Where Are We Now?
Space, [...]

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