[ANPPOM-Lista] CFP: Women and Electronic Dance Music

[Carlos Palombini]

Special edition of *Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture*

Guest Editors: Rebekah Farrugia and Magdalena Olszanowski

https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult

This special edition of *Dancecult* seeks to address the diverse roles of
women-identified persons within electronic dance music culture (EDMC).
While a great deal has been written about the practices of EDM subcultures
and DJ culture in general, the experiences of women has received little
attention perpetuating and reinforcing male dominance.

Women’s involvement in EDMC has largely been written out of the genre’s
history; however, scholarly research has begun to intervene in popular and
academic discourses that for decades positioned women as outside the sphere
of EDMC with the exception of their presence as dance floor participants.
Where once few women-identified role models and women-centered spaces
served as inspiration for women to become agents in EDMC, the support
network for women has been expanding. Since the 2000s especially, there has
been tremendous growth in the number of women-centered EDM collectives and
support networks worldwide. Still, as women are forging inroads, their
successes are tempered by a discourse that continues to insist on ‘a lack”
of women’s involvement. Over the past decade, research has begun to address
both the significant and innovative contributions of women to the genre and
industry as well as the ongoing misogyny that limits women’s participation,
opportunity, and recognition in EDMC. Currently, women make crucial
contributions to EDM in their roles as DJs, producers, agents, promoters,
designers, VJs, and so on.

This special issue of *Dancecult *will include current research that
examines, interrogates, and highlights the tensions and experiences of
women, transgender and gender nonconforming contributors to EDMC. This
issue is grounded in existing EDM literature as well as contemporary
debates in the field of culture and gender studies as well as technology
studies as inflected by intersections of gender, power, privilege, and
bodies in globally diverse locales and cultures. We are particularly
interested in intersectional work that addresses race, class, ability, age,
and/or sexuality in addition to one or more of the themes below.

*// SUGGESTED THEMES //*

 Potential themes for articles include (but are not limited to):

-      problematizing the contemporary popular discourse (or lack thereof)
on women-identified persons

-      women’s emotional labour and backstage support

-      trans and gender nonconforming participants in EDM

-      diverse practices/interrogating and interpreting modes of
participation

-      intersections of gender and technology

-      gender scripts in EDM

-      the industry of EDM production

-      formation and dynamics of collectives, especially marginalized
collectives

-      historical analyses of issue themes

-      emerging initiatives in EDM

 *// SUBMISSIONS //*

 *Feature Articles:*

Feature Articles will be peer-reviewed and are 6000–9000 words in length
(including endnotes, captions and bibliography). For policies, see:

https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies

*“From the Floor” Articles:*

This special edition will also feature a special version of the From the
Floor format: “In Our Own Words”. Submissions for this shorter format
(750–2500 words) should relate one (illuminating / thought-provoking /
exemplary / problematic / surprising) vignette from one’s own work and
practice, followed by brief and exploratory comments. We are particularly
looking for mini-ethnographies, auto-ethnographies, and interviews. See
guidelines at the Section Policies link above.

 Articles must adhere to all style and formatting rules stipulated in the
Dancecult Style Guide (DSG). Download it here:
 https://dj.dancecult.net/public/journals/24/dancecult_styleguide.pdf

 *Multimedia Submissions:*

*Dancecult *encourages authors to complement their written work with audio
and visual material. See the DSG for style and formatting requirements.

*Language:*

Although the language of publication in *Dancecult *is English, the editors
strongly encourage submissions from non-Anglophone scholars and will be
happy to provide linguistic/stylistic support during the writing process.
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*// **DATES AND DEADLINES **//*

 This special edition will be published in *Dancecult *on *1 November 2017*.

 If interested, send a 250-word abstract (along with a 100 word maximum
author biography) to <farrugia em oakland.edu>farrugia em oakland.edu by *1 July
2016*.

If your abstract is accepted, the deadline for submission of a full article
draft to Rebekah Farrugia ( <farrugia em oakland.edu>farrugia em oakland.edu) is *1
December 2016*. Beyond that, the deadline for online submission to
*Dancecult* (for blind peer-review) is *1 April 2017*.

 Please send inquiries and expressions of interest to Magdalena Olszanowski
<magdalena.olszanowski em concordia.ca>magdalena.olszanowski em concordia.ca.

*Guest Editors*

Rebekah Farrugia holds a PhD in communication with a specialization in
media studies. Her scholarship explores the politics and intersections of
gender, community, and place in contemporary music genres such as
electronic dance music and hip-hop. Her work has been published in various
journals including* Feminist Media Studies, Music & Politics *and *Journal
of Popular Music Studies*. In 2012, Rebekah published *Beyond the Dance
Floor: Female DJs, Technology and Electronic Dance Music Culture*. Her
current research project is an ethnographic study about a women-centered,
community-based hip-hop movement in post-bankruptcy Detroit. She is an
Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at
Oakland University.


Magdalena Olszanowski is an artist, instructor, and PhD candidate in
Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She has published
and created work on gender, electronic music, and sound and image
technologies with a particular focus on women's work as inflected by
censorship. Her work can be found in journals such as *Feminist Media
Studies*, *Visual Communication Quarterly *and *Dancecult*. She has
participated in the EDM scene in nearly every capacity over the last
fifteen years. She is also currently working on *microfemininewarfare*, a
documentary featuring women experimental electronic music composers.
<http://raisecain.net>http://raisecain.net

-- 
Rebekah Farrugia, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Communication and Journalism
Oakland University
Rochester, MI 48309

-- 
carlos palombini, ph.d. (dunelm)
professor de musicologia ufmg
professor colaborador ppgm-unirio
www.proibidao.org
ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini <http://goo.gl/KMV98I>
www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2
scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=YLmXN7AAAAAJ
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