Friday 29 January 2010

CFP : Special issue of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture

SPECIAL ISSUE OF DANCECULT: JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC CULTURE
TITLE: PRODUCING EDM
GUEST EDITOR: DR ELIOT BATES (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK)
DEADLINE: 1 MAY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS


The third issue of Dancecult, the open-access peer-reviewed journal on electronic dance music cultures, will focus on producers and the production of electronic dance music.

Producers and production is broadly conceived to include:
--The production/creation/composition of dance music in recording studios
--Visuals production (e.g. VJing, liquid lights)
--The development, use, and transformations of technologies, musical instruments, software, interfaces, and computer hardware related to dance music and visuals production
--Event production and organization

A constellation of theoretical questions motivate the production of the present volume:
What is production, and how does electronic dance music production relate to creative work and production in other musical styles and cultural contexts?
Revisiting Negus and DuGay's expression "cultures of production / production of culture," what exactly is produced in EDM production?
Also, what are the cultures of EDM production?
To what extent are emergent genres fruitfully analyzed as a product of changing sociotechnological systems?
How are different forms of virtuality (virtual communities, online distribution, social media) affecting the situatedness of production?

We encourage the submission of articles that deal with topics of production in geographically and/or generically diverse milieus. In addition to feature articles and interviews, we encourage submissions of shorter, deeply ethnographic works with a strong multimedia component to the From the Floor section. These could include, for example, a studio production ethnography, a study of the organization of a single event, or a focused analysis of an online community of EDM producers.

Besides this special issue, we also welcome submissions of articles related to any aspect of electronic dance music cultures.

About Dancecult:
Dancecult is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). A platform for interdisciplinary scholarship on the shifting terrain of EDMCs worldwide, the journal houses research exploring the sites, technologies, sounds and cultures of electronic music in historical and contemporary perspectives. Playing host to studies of emergent forms of electronic music production, performance, distribution, and reception, as a portal for cutting-edge research on the relation between bodies, technologies, and cyberspace, as a medium through which the cultural politics of dance is critically investigated, and as a venue for innovative multimedia projects, Dancecult is the forum for research on EDMCs.

CFP: Special Issue on Popular Music and Marketing

POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY
SPECIAL ISSUE ON POPULAR MUSIC AND MARKETING
CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE: 1 JULY 2010


Submissions are invited for a special issue of Popular Music and Society, which will focus on the theme of popular music and marketing. While the subject of popular music and marketing has been a regular focus of business, marketing, and advertising research, there have been relatively few critical and cultural studies in this area. This special issue aims to explore and critically
interrogate the various intersections of popular music and marketing, and the role of commerce in popular music culture. All disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical perspectives are welcome; possible themes might include:

• Corporate sponsorship of bands, venues, and tours
• Popular music promotional tools
• Music in commercials
• Popular music merchandising
• Indie marketing and PR
• The "commercial" music designation
• Music marketing in the digital age
• Product placement in popular music
• Histories of marketing in popular music
• "Manufactured" bands

Deadline for the e-mail submission of papers (6,000-8,000 words) is 1 July 2010. This issue of Popular Music and Society will be published in 2011. Please remove identifying information from the paper before submitting; in a separate document, indicate your name, institutional affiliation, postal address, and e-mail address. Queries and submissions should be directed to the guest editor:

Dr Bethany Klein
b.klein@leeds.ac.uk

Lecturer in Media Industries
Institute of Communications Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
UK
+44 (0)131 343 6979
 
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