POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY CALL FOR
PAPERS Special Issue: Fandom Guest editor, Mark Duffett Popular
Music and Society
invites article proposals for a new special issue. Fandom is both a personal expression
of emotional conviction and a complex, changing, multi-faceted social
phenomenon that now encompasses both online and offline activity. The study of
fandom is a scholarly niche that exists at the intersection of a wide range of
interests and connections. It can be contextualized by wider media research (theory
by scholars such as Henry Jenkins and Matt Hills; reception analysis; celebrity
studies; ethnography; subcultural theory) and by direct research into popular
music culture (ethnomusicology; research on listening; live music audiences; studies
of music in everyday life). We invite papers with themes
that may include, but are not limited to: ·
Fans as musicians / musicians as fans ·
The consumer marketplace, perceptions of the music industry ·
Collecting, listening, and other fan practices ·
Live music, local scenes, and fandom as living culture ·
Stereotyping, self-awareness, media representation, literature and
fiction ·
Fandom and social identities (such as gender, age, disability,
race) ·
Methodology, research practice, cultural theory ·
Histories, critiques of fandom as a response to mass culture ·
Taste, cultural capital, and the canon ·
Online participatory cultures ·
Case studies and ethnographies; personal narratives, memories, and
investments ·
Stardom and celebrity; identification, reading, and textuality ·
Legacies of key representations (e.g., Fred Vermorel and Judy
Vermorel's book Starlust) ·
Modernity, religion, pathology, and the "cult" analogy ·
Differing fandoms / specific music genres ·
The fan community: insiders, outsiders, and the "ordinary"
audience ·
Fan culture and the paradigm of performance ·
The uses of fandom: political activism, heritage, and tourism ·
Fandom, the family, and / or the life cycle Send proposals of up to 500 words in the first
instance. Contributions will be peer-reviewed for potential inclusion in the
main section of the journal. Polemical papers will also be considered for
inclusion in the Forum section. Indicate the name under which you would wish to
be published, your professional/academic affiliations, a postal address, and
preferred email contact. Deadline
for submission of proposals is October 31, 2011. We would hope to commission articles by December 31, 2011,
and deadline for submission of the articles will be July 31, 2012. Please email proposals to guest editor
Mark Duffett at [log in to unmask].