Submissions are sought for a collection of essays titled Write in Tune: Representing Contemporary Music in Fiction. Edited by Jeffrey Roessner (Mercyhurst College) and Erich Hertz (Siena College) Submission deadline: January 31, 2010 Since the 1960s the confluence of music and literature has moved far beyond simple adaptation studies, with writers turning to music for [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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