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IASPM@Journal
Open for general submissions
IASPM@Journal is always open for new general submissions and we encourage you to submit research papers in all aspects of popular music studies. Spread the word to your IASPM branch.
The CFP is now available in 9 languages.
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Grainger Studies
Issue #3
Submissions are now sought for issue #3 (to be published in 2013) of Grainger Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Please download the flyer for details. Continue reading
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Journal of Music Research Online
A journal of the Music Council of Australia
The Journal of Music Research Online (JMRO) is a freely accessible, peer-reviewed journal for the publication of scholarly research in music. It has a distinguished international editorial board, broad scope and aims to publish research of the highest international standard.
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MUSICultures: Atlantic Roots and Routes
Deadline: 15 December 2012
MUSICultures solicits articles for publication in a special issue on Atlantic Roots and Routes, guest edited by Drs. Kati Szego (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Frances Wilkins (University of Aberdeen), and Heather Sparling (Cape Breton University). Continue reading
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IASPM@Journal: Special Issue on Popular Music Journalism
Section Editors: Christoph Jacke, Martin James and Ed Montano
Deadline for 1-page abstracts: 25 January 2013
Deadline for submissions: 5 April 2013
Music journalism forms part of ongoing debate amongst IASPM members, in terms of music criticism, industry interests and identity politics.
IASPM@Journal, the journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, wishes to provide a platform for these debates with a special issue on popular music journalism for publication at the end of 2013. Continue reading
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Patti Smith
Special issue Profils Américains
Contributions are sought for a special issue of Profils Américains, a biannual journal in English published by Montpellier University, France, entirely devoted to Patti Smith’s artistry.
At this point we are looking for contributions more specifically focusing on:
• Patti Smith’s later production (post Dream of Life), and particularly her latest album (Banga) and books (Auguries of Innocence, Just Kids, The Coral Sea).
• Her visual arts production (photography, painting, drawing) and her artistic connection with Robert Mapplethorpe.
Deadline for proposals: 30 October 2012
Please send a 300-word outline to: claude.chastagner@univ-montp3.fr
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IASPM@Journal: Special Issue on Popular Music Performance
Submission deadline: 1 March 2013
Music performance forms part of ongoing debate amongst IASPM members, leading to innovative research that addresses mediation and embodiment; spectacle and immersion; technology and music.
IASPM@Journal, the journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, wishes to provide a platform for these debates with a special issue on popular music performance for publication in 2013. Continue reading
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Computer Music Journal
Special issue on Live Coding Practice
Deadline 21 January 2013
Guest edited by Alex McLean, Julian Rohrhuber and Nick Collins
Live coding focuses on a computer musician’s relationship with their computer. It includes programming a computer as an explicit onstage act, as a musical prototyping tool with immediate feedback, and also as a method of collaborative programming. Live coding’s tension between immediacy and indirectness brings about a mediating role for computer language within musical interaction. At the same time, it implies the rewriting of algorithms, as descriptions which concern the future; live coding may well be the missing link between composition and improvisation. Continue reading
Call for articles
IASPM@Journal
IASPM@Journal is open for new general submissions and we encourage you to spread the word to your IASPM branch forum/blog/website. The CFP is now available in 9 languages.
Further information:
Authors
Readers & Reviewers
Librarians
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 MTV in 1983. More recently, music videos have seen a resurgence in the “post-television” era, with videos like Justine Bieber’s “Baby” (ft. Ludacris) and Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” (ft. Beyoncé) notching hundreds of millions of views online (671 million and 432 million, respectively, as of December 2011). At the same time, and often in the shadows of these hugely popular performances, music has been crucial to every era of television and to the development of video websites like YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo, providing profitable content, pioneering new screen technologies, and promoting debates around the visual presentation of race, gender, sexuality, and youth. Continue reading