Call for submissions Sonic Visions: Popular Music On and After Television Journal of Popular Music Studies Special Issue Guest Editors Matt Delmont & Murray Forman The connection of music and television calls to mind iconic performances like Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956 and the debut of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video on [...]

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Call for submissions Anarcho-Punk Anthology Mike Dines is seeking contributions from the wide spectrum of musicology and social sciences for an edited text on the anarcho-punk scene of the 1980s that will reflect upon its origins, its music(s), its identity, its legacy, its membership and circulation. Seven years ago, I was awarded my PhD for my research into the [...]

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Call for submissions Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales nº 4 Music and armed conflicts after 1945 Coordination : Luis VELASCO PUFLEAU The role of music to contest, legitimize, comment, pacify or intensify contemporary armed conflicts has so far received little attention by musicological research – compared to the numerous existing studies on the two World [...]

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Call for submissions El oído pensante El oído pensante invites the submission of articles for the first volume (2013) (ISSN 2250-7116). The aim of this biannual peer-reviewed online journal of free access is to promote debate on theoretical, methodological and epistemological dilemmas faced by different kinds of music research.

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Call for submissions Norient Academic Online Journal The Future(s) of Music? – Notions of Prospective Musics in Utopian Movies and Literature The famous Cantina Band scene from George Lucas’ Star Wars, featuring an alien ensemble performing a foxtrot-like John Williams composition, is just one of many examples: While film scores often have provided an experimental [...]

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Call for submissions Nostalgias: A special issue of Volume! The French Journal of Popular Music Studies Edited by Hugh Dauncey (Newcastle University) & Christopher Tinker (Heriot-Watt University) Volume!, the French peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of popular music, seeks contributions for a special issue on nostalgia and popular music in a variety of [...]

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Call for chapters Death and the Rock Star Deadline for proposals: 15 July 2012 The recent untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston, and the resurrection of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival, have focused the media spotlight, yet again, on the relationship between rock, popular music and death. The ‘sex, [...]

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Call for papers IASPM Journal IASPM Journal now offers eight language versions of its Open Call for Papers, in addition to its new template. Further relevant links: Authors, Readers & Reviewers, Librarians  

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Call for submissions Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture Doing Fieldwork in Nightlife Scenes and EDMCs Guest editor: Luis-Manuel Garcia http://dj.dancecult.net/ This special edition of Dancecult seeks to address the fact that, although many EDM (Electronic Dance Music) projects have a significant ethnographic component, there are few methodological resources available to ethnographers of EDM [...]

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Call for submissions IASPM Journal November 2012 Popular Music Studies in the Twenty-First Century It is thirty years since the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) was founded and the journal Popular Music was launched. Although much is different today in popular music studies, the field still faces a number of challenges, [...]

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