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Piracy and Social Change

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Call for articles
Piracy and Social Change
Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture
Co-editors: Patrick Burkart and Jonas Andersson Schwarz

The editors of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture invite submissions for a special issue on the topic of piracy and social change.

Scholarship on piracy and pirates is itself changing, partly in recognition of the fact that “pirate” culture and everyday culture increasingly mix in popular communication. Piracy reflects social changes that transgress legally proscribed orders, while the “piracy” label itself is often used to shore up support for entrenched political and economic interests. For this special issue, we solicit contributions that take a novel and inquisitive approach to piracy and popular communication, while also mapping the current state of the field. Contributors can focus on one or more communicative aspects of piracy, such as pirate cultures, practices, politics, aesthetics, ethics, law and policy, and modernities. Continue reading →

Interview with Simon Frith

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Interview with Simon Frith
Live Music Exchange

IASPM members may be interested in an interview conducted with Simon Frith in which he discusses the interaction of popular music and politics, and outlines his reflections on the early days of IASPM.

The interview can be found at: http://livemusicexchange.org/blog/simon-frith-and-politics-an-interview/

Please also take time to look around the Live Music Exchange website while you’re there.

Sound Moves

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New journal issue
Wi: Journal of Mobile Media
Sound Moves: Intersections of Popular Music Studies, Mobility Studies and Soundscape Studies

The Mobile Media Lab, Communication Studies, is pleased to announce the publication of Sound Moves: Intersections of popular music studies, mobility studies and soundscape studies, the latest issue of Wi: Journal of Mobile Media.

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Edited by Owen Chapman Continue reading →

Musics of the Non-Anglo Communities in the USA in the 21st Century

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Call for articles
The Musics of the Non-Anglo Communities in the USA in the 21st Century: Technology, Economy, Identity
InMedia
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2013

The forthcoming special issue of the on-line journal InMedia will be devoted to the musics of the non-Anglo communities in the USA in the 21st century, focusing on identity, technological, and economic issues. Continue reading →

Real Country?

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Call for papers
Real Country? Geographic, Cultural and Stylistic Challenges to the Country Music Genre
International Symposium
13-14 November 2013
Strasbourg, France

In 2006, an article in the Observer Music Monthly stated, “Country is often seen as the whitest, most segregated of all styles: the redneck soundtrack of the racist South”. First marketed as “old time,” then as “hillbilly music” by northeastern music executives in the 1920s and 1930s country music has been branded with the same stereotypes as its region of origin. Perceived as conventional, vulgar and conservative, it has been charged with wallowing in easy patriotism and mawkish sentimentality, based on a homesickness for a lost agrarian past which at times slips into an unquestioning fondness for pre-Civil War Dixie. Continue reading →

Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter‏

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Call for chapters
Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter‏
Deadline for proposals: 1 September 2013

The singer-songwriter has been a source of creativity and emotion for centuries: from troubadours in the Middle Ages, to John Dowland’s songs of the Renaissance, nineteenth century Lieder, blues singers in the Deep South, to the multitude of figures in the twentieth-century popular music industry. Our intention for the proposed volume is to offer a new perspective on the singer-songwriter, broadly defined, by including chapters that adopt a variety of scholarly angles. Continue reading →