[ANPPOM-Lista] CFP: twentieth-century music, special issue on "spectral thinking" (15/1, Spring 2018)

[Carlos Palombini]

Call for Papers - Special issue on "Spectral Thinking" (15/1, Spring 2018)

*Guest Editor: Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford)*

Articles are invited for a special themed issue exploring the idea of
spectral music in the widest sense. The terms “spectral music” and
“spectralism” are now in wide use, but there has been surprisingly little
critical discussion (particularly in English) of how the terms are used,
and what constitutes spectral music or, more generally, “spectral thought”.
Clearly spectral music exists beyond a particular “spectral moment”
centered on Paris in the 1970s, which has to date been the primary focus of
scholarly attention. It is hoped that this Special Issue will address
critical, historiographical and hermeneutical issues in order to begin to
situate spectral musical developments within the wider contexts of both
musical modernism in general, and music and society since the 1960s in
particular.

Submissions (6,000–12,000 words) are welcomed from any methodological
perspective and/or in relation to a wide range of musical repertoires or
practices that could be said to engage with the notion of the “spectrum of
sound”. Topics may include (but are not limited to):

   - historical/historiographical perspectives on spectral music in France
   (post-1968, etc.) and elsewhere
   - the institutions of spectral music
   - philosophical contexts for the “ideologies” of spectralism
   - the politics of spectralism
   - spectral music and modes of listening
   - spectralism and technology
   - music spectra, the *corps sonore* and music theory, from Rameau to the
   present
   - analytical approaches to spectral music
   - spectral music and the creative process
   - spectral music and sound studies
   - wider “spectral thinking”, with its origins in Debussy, Partch,
   Cowell, even Schoenberg, and embracing a diverse host of composers working
   internationally from the 1960s on

For consideration for inclusion in this Special Issue, articles should be
submitted to tcm em cambridge.orgby Monday 24 April 2017. It is hoped
decisions regarding publication will be made by the end of June 2017.
Informal enquiries (including for potential reviews of books on
music/issues related to spectral music) may be sent to the Guest Editor:
Jonathan.Cross em music.ox.ac.uk

*Twentieth-Century Music*
<http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=TCM> (Co-Editors:
Julian Johnson and Jason Stanyek) disseminates research on all aspects of
music in the long twentieth century to a broad readership. Emphasis is
placed upon the presentation of the full spectrum of scholarly insight,
with the goal of fostering exchange and debate between disciplinary fields.
Individual issues may address a single theme, or encompass diverse topics
and musical repertoires of current import. Our reviews section (Reviews
Editor: Heather Wiebe) offers agenda-setting responses to newly published
work.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twentieth-century-music/information/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-spectral-thinking-15-1-spring-2018

-- 
carlos palombini, ph.d. (dunelm)
professor de musicologia ufmg
professor colaborador ppgm-unirio
ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini <http://goo.gl/KMV98I>