[ecrea] Call for Chapters on Virtual Bands, Virtual Music

                             Virtual Bands,
Virtual Music


Shara Rambarran
and Sheila Whiteley are seeking contributions from the wide spectrum of
musicology and social sciences for an edited text on Virtual Bands, Virtual
Music that will reflect upon its origins, its characters, its music(s), its
scattered identity, its legacy, its worldwide membership and circulation.  How can we define aesthetically, culturally,
politically, and ideologically the concept and meaning of virtual bands? To what
extent is contemporary popular music driven by the digital media (Internet,
digital music distribution, consumption), music technology (sampling, remix,
MP3), and creative artistic technology (music video, performance, virtual
groups)?



Suggestions for
chapters (non-exhaustive) include:



Origins and
legacy

Music and the
Performer (creativity, authorship, identity)

Fantasy worlds,
fantasy characters

Reception
(digital consumption, digital technologies, activism)

The Music
Industry (impact, copyright, digital distribution)



Other, more
general, possible categories:



The musical
genres

The role of
technology (instrumental, sampling, remix, MP3)

Associated
subcultures

Legacies

Circulation

Gender,
sexuality, class, ethnicity and identity

Influence of
‘orientalism’ and geopolitics

Intellectual
debates

The media:
reports, reception, gossip

Graphic arts
(animation, 3D holograms)



Proposals should
be 500 words maximum and should include keywords and a brief biog of the
author.  Submitting a proposal implies
that it only contains original, non-published material and that it is not
simultaneously being submitted to another publication.



The deadline for
submissions is 31 May, 2012. A
decision on inclusions will be made by 1 July, 2012 and
chapters will need to be finalised by August 31, 2013
to allow time for final editing.





Proposals should
be submitted electronically to

(sheila.whiteley /at/ googlemail.com)
and (shararambarran /at/ yahoo.co.uk)



We look forward to
hearing from you!





Dr. Shara Rambarran

Visiting Fellow

Queen's University (Canada) at Bader International Study Centre, UK



Editorial Board
Member,

Journal on the Art of
Record Production: http://arpjournal.com/



Peer Review Board
Member,

Networking Knowledge
Journal




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