[ecrea] CFP: Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics

*/The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
<http://comicsgrid.com/>/* invites authors and artists to submit
contributions for a special collection on the general topic of Jazz and
Comics.

This will be an open access scholarly collection co-edited by Dr Nicolas
Pillai (Birmingham City University) and Dr Ernesto Priego (City
University London).

We welcome submissions from researchers, artists, graduate students,
scholars, teachers, curators, publishers and librarians from any
academic, disciplinary or creative background interested in the
multidisciplinarystudy and/or practice of comics and jazz.

Submissions must fulfil /The Comics Grid/’s editorial guidelines,
available here <http://comicsgrid.com/about/submissions>. /The Comics
Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship/ is an open access journal; authors
retain copyright of their own work and the published content is made
available on HTML and PDF under a Creative Commons-Attribution License.

The popular forms of jazz and comics have shared similar historical and
cultural tendencies. As expressions of modernism, they have been subject
to the demands of the marketplace and consumed by wide and varied
audiences. Yet the liberatory qualities of comics and jazz have provoked
concern in moral guardians, particularly in relation to the subcultures
they have generated. Recalling Bourdieu, we might note that, within
these subcultures, very divergent and often incompatible judgements are
fiercely defended (1983: 24). In the 21st century, both jazz and comics
are accepted as art forms. However, this elevated cultural position has
arguably come at a price, contributing to the restriction of some forms
of jazz and comics to specialised spaces of purchase and consumption.

Over the last forty years, the fields of jazz studies and comic studies
have gained currency within the academy and have been enriched by
interdisciplinary approaches. The New Jazz Studies has invigorated the
discipline beyond its musicological roots, while Comics Studies has
thrived in the digital age. This collection aims to find meeting points
between the disciplines. We are encouraged by the fact that
distinguished jazz musicians such as Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins,
Herbie Hancock and Vince Guaraldi have each stated the influence of
comic books on their musical development, while artists and writers have
frequently turned to jazz for inspiration (e.g. strips about music
appreciation by Harvey Pekar or Blutch). Jazz musicians have been the
subjects of comic strips (e.g. /Charlie Parker: Handyman/, the /BD
Jazz/ series) and jazz musicians have created comic strips (Wally
Fawkes/Trog).

The /Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship /welcomes research
articles, book reviews, research notes, interviews, commentaries and
research in comics form that develop the existing scholarship on jazz
and comics as cultural and artistic practices within specific contexts
and specific material conditions. We are particularly interested in work
which emphasises interconnection and the multimodal. We proceed from an
assumption that comics are not silent and that jazz is inherently visual.

Potential contributors are encouraged to think about jazz and comics
expansively—and to consider them as practices that resist rigid formal
definitions. While this will primarily be an academic collection of
essays, we welcome work that challenges traditional forms of academic
writing that nonetheless follow rigorous academic practice. Submissions
might, for example, present academic book reviews in comics form, or
research-based interviews with practitioners or scholars.

Possible topics may include (but are not restricted to):

The role of materiality and/or performativity in comics and jazz cultures
Comics and jazz collections in libraries and archives, and what comics
and jazz librarianship and curatorial practice might learn from each other
Representations of jazz musicians and jazz history in comics
Visual and literary representations of jazz music in comics
Collectionism in comics and jazz cultures
The role of jazz music in films about comics and comics artists
Gender and jazz in comics
Critical engagements with biographies of jazz musicians in comics form

Submissions can be in any of the article types listed in our author
guidelines <http://comicsgrid.com/about/submissions/>. It is essential
all research submissions include and directly refer to and discuss,
in-text, specific examples of comics (panels, pages). Please ensure you
have read the author guidelines carefully before submitting. Submissions
must be uploaded directly to the journal here
<http://comicsgrid.com/about/submissions/>. All research submissions are
subject to peer review. For technical specifications and special
guidelines for research presented in comics form, please contact
<http://comicsgrid.com/contact/> the editors before submitting.

*Important dates*

Submission deadline: 15 January 2016

Estimated Acceptance/Rejection Notices date: 15 April 2016

Estimated author revisions and proofreading period: 15 April- 15 June 2016

Estimated Publication date: 15 July 2016

*Depending on the number of accepted submissions outputs may be
published in the order they are accepted.

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