[ecrea] CfC Routledge Popular Music in the Nordic Region

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CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS

Popular Music in the Nordic Countries:
Music, Identity, and Social Change in the Early 21st Century

Editors:
Fabian Holt (University of Roskilde, (fabianh /at/ ruc.dk)) and
Antti-Ville Kärjä (University of Turku, (avkarj /at/ utu.fi))

For the Routledge series World Popular Music, we are hereby making a call
for chapter proposals for a volume with the title above. The volume will
examine the role of popular music in the Nordic countries in the context of
contemporary social change. The focus of volume will be to situate popular
music in both local and cross-national contexts of the region and to apply
and develop new interdisciplinary research perspectives. This call is
therefore not only targeted at music studies but also at scholars working on
music within anthropology, cultural studies, history, sociology, and media
studies. The volume is part of a larger pan-Nordic collaboration and forms
the basis for the production of radio and television series as well as
museum exhibitions.

We encourage proposals on the following themes in particular, but emphasize
that all suggestions focusing on the roles and limits of popular music in
the Nordic countries from a 21st century perspective are welcome.

POPLAR MUSIC IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF WELFARE SOCIETY IN NEOLIBERALISM
Popular music has shaped conceptions of gender, ethnicity, and race in
relation to ideologies of the welfare state. If we recognize popular music
as an agent of both tradition and of social change, how is it shaping Nordic
policies, subjectivities and ideas about cultural heritage in relation to
recent neoliberal restructuring of the market–state relations?

POPULAR MUSIC AND CHANGING MUSICAL GEOGRAPHIES OF MARGINS AND CENTERS IN THE
NORDIC REGION
Popular music has long been associated with urban centers and has thus
created hierarchies between centers and peripheries. Is this changing with
new technologies of distribution and ongoing urbanization? Moreover, are new
geographies of the Nordic region emerging in contemporary popular music and
how are they different from previous ones? Both border regions and
indigenous peoples will be included in the analyses.

POPULAR MUSIC IN EMOTIONAL CULTURE AND NARRATIVES OF NORDIC IDENTITY AND
DIFFERENCE
Popular music is recognized for its role in public emotional culture, for
example in relation to social hierarchies and ambient soundscapes associated
with particular Nordic landscapes. In such cases, popular music affords a
platform for emotional culture and diverse images of Nordic identity.
Popular culture is also an arena for exoticization and stereotypes that have
a bearing on social and societal power relations.

The proposals should not exceed 400 words and we ask they be submitted them
as an email attachment in pdf format by 1 November 2011 to Fabian Holt at
(fabianh /at/ ruc.dk). Please indicate ”Routledge Nordic Volume CfC” in the subject
heading and label your attachment your_surname-nordpop.pdf. The editors will
review the proposals and send notifications by 1 December 2011, after which
appropriate contributors will be invited to a start-up symposium in Helsinki
in February 2012 (subject to funding). The tentative deadline for first
drafts of full manuscripts is in June 2013, with early 2014 as the expected
publication date. Should you need further information or have any questions,
do not hesitate to contact the editors.

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