[ANPPOM-L] CFP: Music and Performance Studies

[carlos palombini]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Special issue on Music and Performance Studies
Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música
Guest Editor: Alejandro L. Madrid
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: September 1, 2007 
Deadline for receipt of final manuscripts: September 1, 2008

Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música invites submissions for a special
interdisciplinary issue on Music and Performance Studies, to be guest
edited by Alejandro L. Madrid (University of Illinois at Chicago).
Combining social and aesthetic theory in the study of embodied culture,
the emerging discipline of performance studies provides a rich conceptual
framework to understand a wide variety of phenomena, from the performatic
aspect of activities that explicitly involve performance (eg. music,
dance, theater, ritual) to discursive, social, and political
performativity (eg. the construction of identities, the enunciative use of 
language, political activism, and the use of the body in everyday life).
This special issue seeks to emphasize the understanding of culture, social
and everyday life as phenomena that are continuously re-constituted 
through performance.

We seek critical writing on these issues in relation to music, musical
practices, discursive uses of music, and music consumption and
distribution within specific social and cultural circumstances, including 
popular music, notated classical forms, electronic and computer music,
sound installation and sound art, experimental music, and hybrid musical
forms­among other possibilities.
Prospective authors are encouraged to approach the performatic and 
performative implications of music production, distribution, and
consumption from a wide variety of angles, including (but not limited to)
historical accounts of composers, performers, sound artists, music
producers, music markets, music scenes, etc.; as well as interpretive, 
theoretical, and historical essays centering on aesthetics, discourse and
image, dance, technology, diasporic culture, migration, media, particular
works, musical practices, repertoires, literatures, social networks, 
markets, or environments.

Anonymous abstracts no longer than 250 words should be submitted to
almadrid at uic.edu by September 1, 2007. A copy should be sent to
edicion at sibetrans.com. They should be accompanied by a cover letter
including name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail
address. Selected authors will be notified by November 1, 2007 and final 
manuscripts, ranging from 6,000 to 12,000 words, should be sent to the
same addresses by September 1, 2008. Electronic images may be embedded in
the Word document in jpeg format. Contributors are responsible for 
obtaining permission to reproduce any material for which they do not hold
copyright. For more information about style guidelines see
http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/contributors.htm 

The cyberjournal Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música, is the official,
refereed journal of the SIbE- Society for Ethnomusicology (Spain). For
more information, visit http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/index.htm

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