Call for contributions Popular Music in the Nordic Countries: Music, Identity, and Social Change in the Early 21st Century Editors: Fabian Holt (University of Roskilde, fabianh@ruc.dk) and Antti-Ville Kärjä (University of Turku, avkarj@utu.fi) For the Routledge series World Popular Music, we are hereby making a call for chapter proposals for a volume with the title [...]

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Call for contributions In recent years, the internet in general and social media in particular has fundamentally changed our media culture. The relationship between producers and consumers has shifted, creating new power relationships. Media culture has become more and more about participation, while technological developments such as ‘Facebook liking’ have further blurred the traditional distinction [...]

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Call for contributions Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales nº3 http://transposition-revue.org Queer theory is likely one of the most well-known and controversial recent schools of thought, and its impact has been felt in the academic world and beyond. It appeared in the early 1990s in the United States, as a direct offshoot of LGBT (lesbian, gay, [...]

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Call for Contributions TU Dortmund Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Following last year’s international conference on HipHop in Germany’s Ruhr Area, we are planning to edit a volume that explores hip-hop culture in Europe from a transnational and transatlantic perspective.

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Call for papers Volume ! The French journal of popular music studies Submission deadline: October 15th, 2011 Volume! La Revue des musiques populaires (www.seteun.net), the one and only French peer-reviewed journal exclusively dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of popular music, seeks contributions for a special issue on music and counterculture. Any scholarly essay on popular [...]

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Call for papers Guest editor, Mark Duffett Popular Music and Society invites article proposals for a new special issue. Fandom is both a personal expression of emotional conviction and a complex, changing, multi-faceted social phenomenon that now encompasses both online and offline activity. The study of fandom is a scholarly niche that exists at the [...]

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Listening to popular music: practices, experiences, representations Submission deadline: June 1st, 2011 Volume! a French peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of popular music seeks contributions for a special issue on listening. This issue will explore the premise that a focus on listening can be a fruitful basis for the analysis of popular music, [...]

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Call for contributions Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales. – no 2 Facial expression, physical presence, fashion prowess, vocal intonation, the ways of seduction are numerous and variable. Respecting the codes adopted by the societies and cultures from which it originates, seduction is nevertheless an ‘ordinary social act’ which can be considered as universal. Cecile Dauphin [...]

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With the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) approaching its 30th birthday norient wants to contribute to this anniversary by dedicating its first issue of the norient academic online journal to popular music ethnographies – with a twist. While IASPM has been a major force in contributing to the study of popular [...]

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TRANS- Transcultural Music Review 16 (2012) will publish a special dossier on the new forms of music in audiovisual media. The dossier will be prepared in collaboration with the research group “Música y medios audiovisuales” from the Society for Ethnomusicology-SIBE/IASPM-Spain and will be edited by Teresa Fraile, Eduardo Viñuela, and María Edurne Zuazu.

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