[ANPPOM-Lista] CFP: Dancecult special issue: ageing with EDM

[Carlos Palombini]

CFP: Ageing with EDM

Guest Editor: David Madden, Concordia University

Special edition of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture

http://dj.dancecult.net/

Ageing with EDM aims to contribute to the emerging field of ageing and
music studies by advancing the work of EDM theorists and/or practitioners.
This scholarship is related to a growing group of researchers undertaking
historical cultural studies of popular music, musical heritage, gender,
memory and ageing.

While youth taste cultures, musical communities and scenes continue to
dominate the attention of electronic music, popular music and technology
scholarship, very few studies have been devoted to EDM and cultures of
ageing. This special edition of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance
Music Culture invites contributions from a range of approaches, disciplines
and theoretical frameworks to consider ways to think with ageing and
electronic dance music culture, broadly defined. The following key
questions will be highlighted in the issue: How can stories of older DJs,
producers and scene actors contribute to our understandings of ageing
studies and EDM? How do EDM practices, instruments and genres grow old
together? How might EDM scenes offer critiques of successful ageing and
ageing scripts? What are the trajectories of valuations of EDM materials
and technologies? And, how do relationships to musical praxis, memory and
technique change through the passage of time?

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

-Ageing with EDM genres, practices and instruments

-Musical memory, ageing and EDM

-Ageing scripts and EDM

-Critiques of successful ageing vis-à-vis EDM

-Ageing histories, cities, places, spaces and producers of EDM

-Life course(s) and EDM

-Ageing scenes and 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 website.

“From the Floor” Articles:

This section hosts imaginative submissions reviewed by Dancecult editors
(that is, they are not usually subject to blind peer-review). Submissions
include field reports, mini-ethnographies, photo-essays and interviews.
Pieces for this section should be between 750-2500 words in length. Rather
than written in the style of an article with formal analysis and many
citations, FTF pieces are more conversational or blog-like in style, and
may consist of experimental and creative reportage styles across the field
of EDM. They may include substantive multimedia components.

Multimedia Submissions:

Dancecult encourages authors to complement their written work with audio
and visual material. See the Dancecult Style Guide (DSG) for style and
formatting requirements. Submissions must adhere to all style and
formatting rules stipulated in the DSG.

// DATES AND DEADLINES //

This special edition will be published in Dancecult on 1 Nov 2019.

If interested, send a 250-word abstract (along with a 100-word maximum
author biography) to David Madden (david.madden em concordia.ca) by 1 May 2018.

If your abstract is accepted, the deadline for submission of a full article
draft to the Guest Editor is 1 Nov 2018. Beyond that, the deadline for
online submission to Dancecult (for blind peer-review) is 1 March 2019.

All inquiries and expressions of interest about the special edition should
be directed to the Guest Editor: David Madden (david.madden em concordia.ca)

// Guest Editor Bio //

David Madden is a soundmaker, artist and Postdoctoral Fellow with Ageing +
Communication + Technologies (ACT), at Concordia University. He conducts
research/creation in the areas of sound, ageing studies, electronic and
popular music, media and gender and mobilities. Currently he is undertaking
a feminist microhistory of the ondes Martenot entitled, Aging Waves, and
writing a book on the history of electroclash.

-- 
David Madden, PhD
Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT)
Concordia University