IASPM Journal: Announcements

Special CFP: Special Issue. Contemporary post-Soviet popular music: Politics and aesthetics

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 07:49:14 -0800

Special Issue Call for Papers, IASPM Journal

Special Issue Guest Editor:

Ann Werner

Contemporary post-Soviet popular music: Politics and aesthetics

IASPM Journal is the peer-reviewed open-access e-journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). As part of an international network, the journal aims to publish research and analysis in the field of popular music studies at both global and local levels.

This themed issue of IASPM Journal seeks to explore how popular music is an important field for political and aesthetic negotiations in post-Soviet space, countries and regions formerly part of the Soviet Union or closely related to it, experiencing war and protests during the past years. Symbolic uses of popular music in post-Soviet space includes the ‘singing revolution’ in Estonia, music for several revolutions and a war in Ukraine and current diaspora of Russian musicians. The issue aims to address how politics and aesthetics are articulated in popular music today in post-Soviet space (Mazierska 2016, Miszczyński & Helbig 2017, Blüml, Kajanova & Ritter 2019, Hansen et al. 2019), without excluding contributions focusing on articulations of power and nationalisms, resistance and revolution or ambivalence. We welcome contributions focusing on different genres and parts of the region; Soviet/Russian rock (Gololobov, Pilkington & Steinholt 2014, Wickström 2014), Ukrainian (Helbig 2014, Sonevytsky 2019) and Belarussian (Survilla 2002) popular music, popular music in Caucasus and Central Asian former Soviet republics (Klenke 2019, Merchant 2015) as well as the post-Soviet diaspora. In times when authoritarian and illiberal governments are expanding or defending power in post-Soviet space popular music enables significant circulation of meanings.

Contributors to the issue are welcomed from popular music studies, ethnomusicology, musicology, Slavonic and East European studies but also from the wider field of humanities and social sciences such as sociology, political theory, media studies, gender studies and other.

Proposals might include but are not limited to:

Fans, listeners, gender, class and race in the post-Soviet space
Music industries and music work in the post-Soviet space and diaspora
Genres of post-Soviet popular music
War and conflict affecting post-Soviet popular music
Popular music and political participation in the post-Soviet space
Youth movements and post-Soviet popular music
Analysis of the sounds and lyrics of post-soviet popular music

To be considered for this Special Issue, please submit the following by 7 April 2023:

an abstract of 150-250 words (plus references, if necessary)
author name(s)
institutional affiliations
contact details
a brief bio of no more than 150 words (which includes the author’s positionalities in relation to their topic)

Submissions should be sent to ann.werner@musik.uu.se

If your abstract is accepted, we expect to receive the full article uploaded into the online submission by 31 January 2024. We will send further instructions and links to authors following acceptance of abstracts.

The issue will be published in autumn 2024.

See the journal site for further information regarding submissions. Please also refer to the IASPM Journal Style Guide.

NOTE: In order to submit to IASPM Journal you must be an IASPM member and registered as an author on the site.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the special issue editor ann.werner@musik.uu.se

Call: Call for Editor-in-Chief and Reviews Editor

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 10:08:32 -0700

Dear Fellow Members of IASPM,

A number of key editorial positions at IASPM Journal are available for applications. You must apply no later than Monday the 24^th of July 2022. The editorial board will consider the various applications after the IASPM International Conference. If you want to submit your application after discussion at the conference, we will still consider your application.

Several members of the editorial board, including the Editor-in-Chief Mary Fogarty, Assistant Editor Xavier Villanueva Capella, and Reviews Editor Richard Osborne, are stepping down. Raquel Campos Valverde has also finished her years of service to the journal as Assistant Editor. We would like to thank everyone for all of their hard work over the years, wishing them the best with their future research projects in popular music studies, and we are pleased to announce that Alex de Lacey and Eric Smialek have already begun their roles as Assistant Editors.

We are therefore seeking a new Editor-in-Chief, as well as a new Reviews Editor, who will work with current members of the team during a transition period of at least one issue publication. The incoming Editor-in-Chief is expected to begin their position by September 1st 2022. Our current Reviews Editor, Richard Osborne, will do a transition period over 2023 with the incoming Reviews Editor to start in January 2023.

We welcome both individual and joint applications from within the body of IASPM. In recent years IASPM Journal has been indexed and now has a new website look, as well as new software and design, which is much easier to navigate and user-friendly. The current editorial board team is robust, and we have new Associate Editors including Abigail Gardner, Simone Luci Pereira and Simon Zagorski-Thomas. Simone is leading up a new team within the editorial board, and in collaboration with our Translations Editor, Laura Jordán González, to increase internal structures for non-English publications in the journal. Abigail and Simon, our other Associate Editors, both have special issue projects in the works. All this to say, the team is set up to support growth and emerging opportunities under the leadership of a new Editor-in-Chief.

For both the Editor-in-Chief position, and Reviews Editor role, you should have editing experience, and an appropriate level of academic experience. We accept applications for this position from current and past editorial board members, Associate Editors, Assistant Editors and the general membership of IASPM. Branches underrepresented on our editorial board are encouraged to apply for these positions.

All IASPM editorial work is carried out online, via the OJS (Online Journal System), from the preliminary reading of submissions, the peer-review stage and editorial decision-making, to copyediting, layout and final proof reading.

Chief Editor:

Strategically coordinates the overall content of the journal. Works with the Editorial Board to edit the journal.
Has an overview of the field of popular music studies.
Has strong communication skills, the ability to motivate, and a working understanding of a multicultural contexts, preferably with good control of the English language, and at least one other IASPM branch language.
Has good organisational skills and can deliver to deadline.
The position is usually held for 4 years, plus a 6-month handing-over period.
Coordinates special topic issues and encourages article submissions.
Coordinates the editing responsibilities for various submissions, which are edited by special issue editors, members of the editorial board, or a specific member of the advisory board, depending on the required expertise.
Collaborates with the current Review Editor to align the overall issue content
Collaborates with the current Translation Editors to ensure strong non-English-language research in popular music studies is suitably translated for publication in English for international exposure.
Ensures the peer–review process is robust, clear and efficient
Co-ordinates the production schedule with support of an Assistant Editor, ensuring accepted articles are processed through copyedit and layout stages towards publication.
Liaises with the IASPM Executive to ensure technical support is in place, as well as editorial support towards a viable publication.
Delegates tasks to other members of the team, and chases up late reviews, submissions, and editing.

Reviews Editor

The duties of the Review Editor will include:

Commissioning new reviews from internal and external reviewers
Managing the review timetable
Supporting reviewers to go beyond the traditional academic or journalistic review form and to create a thought-provoking critique
Chasing late reviews and managing deadlines
Providing editorial support and proofreading reviews before online publication
Producing ‘Reviewer Guidelines’
Working with the Editorial Board to add the review to the IASPM Journalwebsite
Developing relationships with publishers
Keeping up-to-date on related publications, events, releases etc.
Working with the other Editors to develop the journal and to ensure opportunities for new and emerging writers/researchers

Please send your application by Monday the 24^thof July 2022 to:

Xavier Villanueva and Eric Smialek

xvxaviervillanueva@gmail.com

eric.smialek@mail.mcgill.ca

The application should include a short CV, with a covering letter that indicates relevant experience. For the role of Chief Editor, include an outline of how you see the future of the journal within its remit of a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural platform for the research work of IASPM members. If you are not sure, please do get in touch, and put your name forward anyway. We can discuss it with you further.

Many thanks,

IASPM Journal Editorial Board

Special CFP: Special Issue: Aging, Time, and Popular Music

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 07:10:11 -0700

Special CFP: Aging, Time, and Popular Music

Special Issue Editors:
Abigail Gardner, Richard Elliott, Line Grenier

IASPM Journal is the peer-reviewed open-access e-journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). As part of an international network, the journal aims to publish research and analysis in the field of popular music studies at both global and local levels.

This themed issue of IASPM Journal seeks to explore what aging might be/mean for popular music studies. Aging has not been addressed much across popular music studies, although significant contributions have emerged in relation to aging audiences (Bennett and Hodkinson 2012; Bennett 2013), nostalgia and revival (Driessen 2019), memory and music (Grenier and Valois-Nadeau 2020; Cohen, Grenier and Jennings 2022), the aging and ‘late’ voice (Elliott 2015, 2019), heritage culture (Roberts and Cohen 2014), and feminist interventions on representation across popular music (Gardner and Jennings 2020; Gardner 2020). We encourage contributions that speak to aging fans and fandoms, representation, performance and production from popular music studies, musicology, sociology, cultural studies, queer theory and, of course, from aging studies.

Proposals might include, but are not limited to:

• Older music fans

• Aging in the music industry/ies

• Age and representation in popular musics

• Contextualising age(ing) and popular music

• Age, music, and nostalgia

• Theorising aging in relation to temporality

• Aging and genre

• Aging, music, and gender(s)

• Lateness / late style

• Popular music and life-writing

To be considered for this Special Issue, please submit the following by 31 May 2022:

• an abstract of 150-250 words (plus references, if necessary)

• author name(s)

• institutional affiliations

• contact details

• a brief bio of no more than 150 words (which includes the author’s positionalities in relation to their topic)

Submissions should be entered via this online form: https://forms.gle/oXNCD24EnbaoQYcj6

If your abstract is accepted, we expect to receive the full article uploaded into the online submission by 31 January 2023. We will send further instructions and links to authors following acceptance of abstracts.

The issue will be published in autumn 2023.

See the journal site for further information regarding submissions. Please also refer to the IASPM Journal Style Guide.

NOTE: In order to submit to IASPM Journal you must be an IASPM member and registered as an author on the site.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the special issue editors at iaspmj.aging@gmail.com

List of references

Bennett, A. (2013) Music, style, and aging: growing old disgracefully? Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Bennett, A. and Hodkinson, P. (eds) (2012) Ageing and youth culture: music, style and identity. London: Berg.

Cohen, S., Grenier, L. and Jennings, R. (eds) (2022) Troubling inheritances. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

Driessen, S. (2019) ‘Celebrating nostalgia or critiquing naivety: Reading pop music reunions through discourses of the fan life course’, The Journal of fandom Studies 7(2), pp.133-150. doi:10.1386/jfs.7.2.133.

Elliott, R. (2015) The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music. Hardback. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

Elliott, R. (2019) ‘Brilliant disguises: persona, autobiography and the magic of retrospection in Bruce Springsteen’s late career’, Persona Studies, 5(1), pp. 17–32. doi:10.21153/psj2019vol5no1art848.

Elliott, R. (2020) ‘Aging and Popular Music’, in Gu, D. and Dupre, M.E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–6. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_259-2.

Forman, M. and Fairley, J. (eds) (2012) As time goes by: music, dance and ageing. Popular Music 31(2).

Gardner, A. and Jennings, R. (2020) Aging and popular music in Europe. London: Routledge.

Gardner, A. (2020) Ageing and contemporary female musicians. London: Routledge.

Grenier, L. and Valois-Nadeau, F. (eds) (2020) A Senior Moment: Cultural Mediations of Memory and Ageing, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.

Haworth C, Colton L (eds) (2015) Gender, age and musical creativity. Ashgate, Farnham.

Jennings, R. and Gardner, A. (2016) ‘Rock on’: women, ageing and popular music. London: Routledge.

Roberts, L., & Cohen, S. (2014). Unveiling memory: Blue Plaques as in/tangible markers of popular music heritage, in Cohen, S. et al. (eds) (2014) Sites of Popular Music Heritage. London: Routledge, pp. 221-238.

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: Software Update

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0800

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: 11.2 (2021) Special Issue: Popular Music, Decolonization and Indigenous Studies

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: Special Issue: Crises at Work: Potentials for Change?

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700

Special CFP: Practice Based Research

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0700

New Position: Call for Applications: IASPM Journal Editorial Board Members

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0700

Call for Applications: IASPM Journal Editorial Board Members Two positions are now available on the IASPM Journal Editorial Board. The duration of the terms will be October 1, 2021-October 1, 2025. If you are interested, please fill out the questionnaire available here by August 1st 2021. We will announce the results of this call by October 2021. All editorial work is carried out online, via the OJS (Online Journal System), from the preliminary reading of submissions, the peer-review stage and editorial decision-making, to copyediting, layout and final proofreading. Although we have a robust editorial board team at the moment, most members began at the same time, so the call for two new positions at this time is to ensure a smooth rotation of editorial board members in coming years. Expectations of the editorial board involve copyediting and proofing articles that have gone through the peer review system, consulting at our annual board meetings, and contributing to other aspects of the journal. Members of our team without English language editing skills have also aided in calls for editorial board members and implementing internal guidelines for editorial board members, for example. We encourage applications from within the body of IASPM members. Although the form asks for transparency of past experience, we also strive for a balance of training opportunities and expertise amongst board members. We also hope to represent as many of our branches, subject interests, and cultural backgrounds as possible within our board membership. This competition will be discussed within the Editorial Board, especially with regard to diversity, academic qualification and editorial experience. Please find the requirements for the members of IASPM Journal Editorial Board: • has a good knowledge of, and specialism in, the field of popular music studies; • has good communication skills, and a working understanding of multicultural contexts, preferably with good control of the English language, and ideally at least one other IASPM branch language; • has good organisational skills, is able to take initiative and is able to deliver to deadline; • the position is usually held for 4 years, plus a 6-month handing-over period; • can support guest editors in producing special topic issues and encouraging article submissions; • can, in collaboration with the Chief Editor, act as Editor of article submissions; • can, in collaboration with the Assistant Editors, ensure that accepted articles are processed adequately through copyediting, proofing and layout stages. If you have some questions about the application process, do not hesitate to contact IASPM Journal editorial board members: Isabel Ferrer Senabre (isabel.ferrer.senabre@gmail.com) and Marija Dumnić Vilotijević (marijadumnic@yahoo.com). General enquiries can also be fielded by our Editor-in-Chief, Mary Fogarty (maryf@yorku.ca) Kind regards, Editorial Board of IASPM Journal Application form here to copy/paste: https://forms.gle/DC6Fm17M9qR9UCjX9

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: Vol 10, No 2 (2020) Open Issue

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0800

Special CFP: Dance and Protest (2022)

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0800

Special Issue Editors: Serouj Aprahamian, Shamell Bell, Rachael Gunn, and MiRi Park IASPM Journal is the peer-reviewed open-access e-journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). As part of an international network, the journal aims to publish research and analysis in the field of popular music studies at both global and local levels. The recent succession of protests and uprisings following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of (now former) Minneapolis police officers overwhelmingly included dance as a protest tactic. While dancers have long engaged in cultural acts of resistance, this iteration in the #blacklivesmatter movement stemmed directly from the efforts of dancers/activists who participated in the protests following the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Ezell Ford, and Michael Brown. Dancer/activist/scholar/mother Shamell Bell deemed "Street Dance Activism" as a protest tool to celebrate Black Joy in the face of Black death, and renowned dance scholar Brenda Dixon-Gottschild has noted how such actions have gained increasing visibility over the last decade. Internationally, we have also seen the rise of dance actions such as the Māori haka performed in honor of and in solidarity with the victims of the Aotearoa/New Zealand mosque attacks, traditional Kurdish folk forms performed in protest over Turkish cultural repression, Chilean flash mobs mobilized against patriarchy and sexual violence, and the return of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy umbrella movement as a massive choreography of protest. Whether evoking emotions of pain and frustration or joy and exaltation, such displays link people together in a common cause, and draw attention to global struggles for political and social change. What’s more, the soundtrack of the protests, such as folk songs, African drumming, chants, anthems, and popular music, situates these actions within larger histories of rebellion and resistance. This Special Issue of the IASPM Journal aims to gather a broad range of scholarly and artistic perspectives on the topic of dance and protest, and the ways in which they interrelate, overlap, intertwine, and bolster political expression. We invite submissions that assess dance in relation to historical movements for social justice and grapple with questions related to how dance and music amplify each other within the framework of protests. We invite case studies that examine how dance is used at protests to enhance a political message, facilitate a call to action, unite people in solidarity, as well as examples of viral dances used for political means. We are interested in how protests themselves can be examined as a form of performance, and the potential limitations of performance as protest, especially when not linked to organized struggle. We encourage submissions on Indigenous experiences with dance, as well as the appropriation and commercialization of political dance and music. Submissions may consider, but are not limited to, any of the following topics: ● The interrelationship between dance, music, and protest ● Case studies of dance and protests (including TikTok / viral dances) ● Dance as a call to action ● Indigenous dance and activism ● Protests as performance ● The policing of the dancing body ● The commercialization and appropriation of dance and cultural activism More than a call for papers, however, this Special Issue is a CALL TO ACTION! As such, we invite two types of submissions: 1) Full articles, 2) Statements/Actions. 1) Full articles These submissions will be between 6,000-8,000 words and subject to double-blind peer review. We encourage practice-based and practice-led research submissions. 2) Statements/Actions These submissions are by scholars and/or practitioners (industry, education, administration, policymakers, etc.) about their dance/music activism experiences in the form of text (max. 2,000 words), audio (max. 12 minutes), or video (max. 8 minutes). The statements/actions will be subject to editorial review. ● This is a call to action, so if you would like your submission to be a part of a video collage of all submissions, please indicate this in your application. To be clear, we will select, subject to review, 1-3 video statements to be featured in full. To be considered for this Special Issue, please submit the following by February 15, 2021: ● an abstract of 150-250 words (plus references, if necessary) ● author name(s) ● institutional affiliations ● contact details ● a brief bio of no more than 150 words (which includes the author’s positionalities in relation to their topic) Submissions should be entered via this google form: https://forms.gle/RpcCxjBfMsB5Z1Qq8. If your abstract is accepted, we expect to receive the full article or statement uploaded into the online submission by August 1, 2021, at https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/about The issue will be published in 2022. See the journal site for further information regarding Submissions. Click here for a Style Guide. NOTE: In order to submit to IASPM Journal you must be an IASPM member and registered as an author on the site. If membership is a financial barrier for any contributor, please discuss this with the editors and we could perhaps try to arrange some sort of funding. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at DAP.IASPM@gmail.com.

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: Vol 10, No 1 (2020) Open Issue

Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0800

Special CFP: Crises at Work: Potentials for Change? (2021)

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0700

Editors: Michael Ahlers and Jan Herbst IASPM Journal is the peer-reviewed open-access e-journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, IASPM. As part of an international network, the journal aims to publish research and analysis in the field of popular music studies at both global and local levels. This Special Issue is motivated by, but not limited to, the current processes and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global civic rights movement related to “Black Lives Matter”, which highlights systemic racism as an epidemic in many societies around the world. Only a selection of topics is shown here, which is also historically part of personal, systematic or infrastructural crises of popular music cultures. The Special Issue of the IASPM Journal aims to gather a broad range of scholarly and artistic perspectives on crises in popular music composition and production, labour, business, education, societies and cultures. We understand crises as possible blockades of creative processes, economic threats, excessive demands on people or systems, but also as an opportunity for change. These potentials lead, for example, to changed forms of appreciation and to a renewed consideration of ecological or ethical values or to the establishment of new networks and methods for creative projects and work. This issue is interested in, but not limited to, any of the following themes: - Global (in)equalities and discrimination (e.g. racism, access to high-speed internet, online censorship) - Creative crisis, resilience and wellbeing - Crises of labour and music business - Innovative approaches to dealing with restrictions and limitations - Adaptations and alternative forms of commercial music industries - Focusing after overload: technical, psychological, social, economic issues - Value and appreciation of music professions in times of crisis - Emerging networks, communities and collaboration (online and offline) - Material and non-material support - Moral and ethical aspects of change We are looking for both scholarly contributions and expressions of opinion or relevant artistic outputs from professionals. The Special Issue also aims to provide a global perspective on support structure and hence motivates popular music scholars to provide information on their regional specifics. This Special Issue contains two parts, 1) full articles, 2) statements. Re 1) Full articles will be between 6,000-8,000 words and subject to double-blind peer review. We encourage practice-based and practice-led research submissions. The audio or audio-visual components must not be copyright protected and must be accompanied by a written component of 3,000 to 4,000 words that clearly describes research questions or objectives, relevant literature, the creative process and conclusions. Re 2) Statements by scholars and practitioners (industry, education, administration, policy makers etc.) about their experiences of crisis in the form of text (max. 2,000 words), audio (max. 12 minutes) or video (max. 8 minutes). The statements will be subject to editorial review. Abstract/proposals for full articles and statements are due by 15 August 2020, with full submissions (if accepted) expected by 1 January 2021. To be considered for this Special Issue, please submit an abstract of 150-250 words (plus references, if necessary) by 15 August 2020; along with author name(s), institutional affiliations, contact details and a brief bio of no more than 150 words which includes the author’s positionalities in relation to their topic to: j.herbst@hud.ac.uk. Please indicate “IASPM Crises Special Issue” in the subject line. If your abstract is accepted we expect to receive the full submission uploaded into the online submission by 1 January 2021 at https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/about Music will be submitted in 320 kbps .mp3 format and stored on the IASPM journal server, videos will be uploaded to IASPM Journal’s video channel. See the journal site for further information regarding Submissions. Our Style Guide is available on the website. NOTE: In order to submit to IASPM Journal you must be an IASPM member and registered as an author on the site. If membership is a financial barrier for any contributor, please discuss this with the editors and we could perhaps try to arrange some sort of funding.

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: Vol 9, No 2 (2019) Open Issue

Mon, 23 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0800

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: Vol 9, No 1 (2019) Pop Music Festivals and (Cultural) Policies

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0700

Special CFP: Popular Music, Decolonization and Indigenous Studies (2020)

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0700

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue: Popular Music, Decolonization and Indigenous Studies Editors: Daniel Hernandez and Kirsten Zemke IASPM Journal is the peer-reviewed open-access e-journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, IASPM. As part of an international network, the journal aims to publish research and analysis in the field of popular music studies at both global and local levels. This Special Issue seeks to confront the Western tradition of academia, which has only been made possible through historic and ongoing processes and ideologies of colonialism. This includes the paradox that many academic scholars and institutions are housed on stolen lands. This Special Issue of IASPM Journal aims to contribute to an ongoing process of decolonization through the lens and practices of popular music by highlighting Indigenous academics, theorists and musical explorations. Indigeneity is a contested and negotiated term yet provides a geopolitical identity and relationship to colonial legacies and contemporary power relations that survive and are resilient, despite the initial and enduring encounters of violence, erasure, displacement, and occupation. This includes Indigenous peoples in settler colonial nation-states as well as those within systems of coloniality in non-settler nation-states. Historical processes have served as catalysts to subversive Indigenous responses, adoptions and adaptations of styles and instruments, as well as, the erasure of Indigenous contributions to popular music. This issue is interested in, but not limited to, any of the following themes: • Indigenous peoples’ relationship with popular music • Indigenous musicians in popular music • Indigenous issues represented and negotiated in popular music • Popular music, Indigenous organizing, and protection of sacred sites • Decolonial coalition-building between communities through music • Indigenous Futures, Self-determination and cultural sovereignty • Indigenous cosmologies, instruments, and styles in popular music • Queer, Anti-colonial, Anti-capitalist Indigenous identities • Indigenous activism, sounds, and stories We would like this Issue to reflect a global spread and diversity. We are looking for articles that represent Indigenous popular music and issues on Turtle Island (North America), Oceania, Abya Yala (Central and South America), Africa, Asia, and wherever an Indigenous subject in popular music exists. We seek proposals for articles that will be between 6,000-8,000 words. Abstract/proposals are due by 1 November 2019, with full articles (if accepted) expected by May 15th 2020. To be considered for this Special Issue, please submit an abstract of 150-250 words (plus references, if necessary) by 1 November 2019; along with author name(s), institutional affiliations, contact details and a brief bio of no more than 150 words which includes the author’s positionalities in relation to their topic to: Kirsten Zemke k.zemke@auckland.ac.nz. Please indicate “IASPM Decolonization Special Issue” in the subject line. If your abstract is accepted we expect to receive the full article of 6000 - 8000 words uploaded into the online submission by May 15th 2020 at https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/about See the journal site for further information regarding Submissions. Click here for a Style Guide. All articles undergo a double-blind peer review. NOTE: In order to submit to IASPM Journal you must be an IASPM member and registered as an author on the site. If membership is a financial barrier for any contributor, please discuss this with the editors and we could perhaps try to arrange some sort of funding.

Open CFP: IJ 9/2 (2019) – Open Call

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0700

IASPM Journal is the journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), an organization established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music. We publish articles and book reviews on popular music of any genre, time period or geographic location. As part of an international network the journal aims to disseminate IASPM members' research work that is local, transnational, global and/or international. English is the official language but articles may also be submitted in the official language of any of its branches (adding an English abstract). Studies may use a range of research methodologies and critical approaches, including practice as research. As our open access readership is diverse and interdisciplinary, we ask contributors to present ideas in forms accessible to sociologists, musicologists, music critics and practitioners. The deadline for submissions is 31st August 2018. We seek contributions no longer than 8,000 words, inclusive of abstract. We expect to publish this issue in December 2018, with final decisions on submissions sent out in autumn 2018. In order to submit to IASPM@journal you must be an IASPM member and registered as an author on the site. Further information regarding online submissions is available on our website: http://www.iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions Click here for a copy of the Open CFP (in several languages) and our journal Style Guide:http://www.iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/issue/view/35 Correspondence and enquiries should be directed to the Editor: koos.zwaan@inholland.nl

Open CFP: IJ 9/2 (2019) – Open Call

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0700

IASPM Journal is the journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), an organization established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music. We publish articles and book reviews on popular music of any genre, time period or geographic location. As part of an international network the journal aims to disseminate IASPM members' research work that is local, transnational, global and/or international. English is the official language but articles may also be submitted in the official language of any of its branches (adding an English abstract). Studies may use a range of research methodologies and critical approaches, including practice as research. As our open access readership is diverse and interdisciplinary, we ask contributors to present ideas in forms accessible to sociologists, musicologists, music critics and practitioners. The deadline for submissions is September 30th 2019. We seek contributions no longer than 8,000 words, inclusive of abstract. We expect to publish this issue in December 2019, with final decisions on submissions sent out in October 2019. In order to submit to IASPM Journal you must be an IASPM member and registered as an author on the site. Further information regarding online submissions is available on our website: http://www.iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions Click here for a copy of the Open CFP (in several languages) and our journal Style Guide:http://www.iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/issue/view/35 Correspondence and enquiries should be directed to the Chief Editor, Mary Fogarty Woehrel at maryf@yorku.ca. Please also cc our editorial assistant, Xavier Villanueva at xvxaviervillanueva@gmail.com.

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: IJ 8/2 (2018) – Open Issue

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0800

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: IJ 8/1 (2018) – Gender Politics in the Music Industry

Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0700

Open CFP: Research Work at IASPM

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0700

IASPM@Journal is the journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), an organization established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music. We publish articles and book reviews on popular music of any genre, time period or geographic location. In addition to Special Issue CFPs, the journal maintains a space for ongoing scholarly work. As part of an international network the journal aims to disseminate IASPM members' research work that is local, transnational, global and/or international. English is the official language but articles may also be submitted in the official language of any of its branches (adding an English abstract). Studies may use a range of research methodologies and critical approaches, including practice as research. As our open access readership is diverse and interdisciplinary, we ask contributors to present ideas in forms accessible to sociologists, musicologists, music critics and practitioners. In order to submit to IASPM@journal you must be an IASPM member and registered as an author on the site. Once you are logged in, first update your profile, including the name of your institution (AFFILIATION) as well as in your BIO STATEMENT to include the idiom(s) and in which you are able to write or review. Where appropriate, add your reviewing interests as separated key concepts (avoid long lists in one line, as they are impossible to search). When registered as an author you will be able to submit content to the journal by clicking on "Author" in your "User Home" column. Further information regarding Online: Submissions. Click here for a copy of the Open CFP (in several languages) and Style Guide. Music files (mp3) and good resolution figure files (at least 300 dpi for images in gray scale images) may be included as Supplementary Files, provided sources are acknowledged and relevant copyright clearance has been secured. Although research ethics are important to the journal, it does not accept legal responsibility for any external Internet links. Open Journal Systems is freely distributed software from the Public Knowledge Project.

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: IJ 7/2 (2017) – Practice-Led and Practice-Based Popular Music Studies

Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0800

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: IJ 7/1 (2017) – Pop Life: The Popular Music Biopic

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0700

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: IJ 6/2 (2016) – Perspectives on Popular Music and Sound Recording

Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0800

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: IJ 6/1 (2016) – New Directions in Music Fan Studies

Mon, 07 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0800

IASPM Journal Publication Ethics: IJ 6/2 (2016) – Perspectives on Popular Music and Sound Recording

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Call: Looking for reviewers of publications and other outputs in Popular Music Studies

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Book reviews are, normally, between 600-1500 words and in the language of the book under review. If the review is in a language other than English, a 150-word summary in English is expected. Please note, however, that English-language reviews of non-English books are most welcome, as are reviews of documentary DVDs and scholarly websites. Download instructions by clicking HERE