Chair for Popular Music History & Theory

Publications

Nostalgias. A special issue of Volume! The French Journal of Popular Music Studies

Volume!, the French peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of popular music - seeks contributions for a special issue on nostalgia and popular music in a variety of national, international and transnational contexts.

This issue will explore the ways in which popular-music-related nostalgia is produced, represented, mediatised and consumed.

Dancecult - Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture (DJEDMC)

From dancehall to raving, club cultures to sound systems, disco to techno, breakbeat to psytrance, hip hop to dub-step, IDM to noisecore, nortec to bloghouse, global EDMCs are a shifting spectrum of scenes, genres, and aesthetics. What is the role of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, religion and spirituality in these formations? How have technologies, mind alterants, and popular culture conditioned this proliferation, and how has electronic music filtered into cinema, literature and everyday life? How does existing critical theory enable understanding of EDMCs, and how might the latter challenge the assumptions of our inherited heuristics? What is the role of the DJ in diverse genres, scenes, subcultures, and/or neotribes? As the journal of the international EDMC research network, Dancecult welcomes submissions from scholars addressing these and related inquiries in the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, history, media and communications studies, politics, legal studies, criminology, studies in religion and other fields.

Intellect Books - Contemporary Music Studies)

Intellect is an independent academic publisher in the fields of creative practice and popular culture, publishing scholarly books and journals that exemplify our mission as publishers of original thinking. We aim to provide a vital space for widening critical debate in new and emerging subjects, and in this way we differ from other publishers by campaigning for the author rather than producing a book or journal to fill a gap in the market.

Extempore - art & writing inspired by jazz and improvised music

extempore encourages submissions from established, known writers as well as new fresh voices. The journal's theme is the celebration of the way improvised music (including jazz) can inspire creativity in writers and artists. And of course it works the other way as well, with many jazz composers and musicians drawing inspiration from poets, painters and writers. Your work does not have to be about jazz. All we need is a link, which can be as simple as 'I was listening to an intensely emotional piano solo by Mark Isaacs on my car radio as I barrelled down the highway from Merimbula, and was inspired to write this story about restitution and forgiveness'. See? Easy. Stretch out a bit and let the music in...

University of Illinois Press: American Music

American Music invites submissions for possible publication.
American Music was the first journal published devoted exclusively to American music and to music in America. Articles cover American composers, performers, publishers, institutions, events, and the music industry. Recent article topics have included: Duke Ellington and early radio; John Cage's HPSCHD; the WPA music copying project; defining the Easy Listening era; Milton Babbitt in academia; the soul roots of Bruce Springsteen; the benefit concerts of Jack Benny and Danny Kaye; and the boyhood of Henry Cowell. The journal also includes interviews with composers and reviews of books, recordings, films, websites, and concerts.