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[ecrea] Call for Papers - New Directions in Music Fan Studies (Deadline 30th November 2015)

Wed Nov 25 01:50:34 GMT 2015





REMINDER: Call for Papers (Deadline 30th November 2015)

I@J 6/1 (2016)
New Directions in Music Fan Studies
Edited by Dr. Koos Zwaan and Dr. Mark Duffett

Popular music fandom has received widespread media attention since the early
years of postwar music. Elvis Presley evoked strong fan responses and generated monumental opposition from “anti-fans�. “Beatlemania� shaped many young people’s experiences of the 1960s. Fandom is associated with specific cultural practices, from listening to records and making music, to paramusical activities such as wearing t-shirts, or collecting set lists, participating in fan media (blogs,
fiction, graphics), or adorning one’s body with tattoos of band logos.

The advent of social media has brought new possibilities for fan-celebrity
interaction. Established cultures have taken new forms. For example, fan letters and fanzines have not disappeared but, rather, have transformed to exploit the possibilities of new media. Fandom has also taken on different meanings for pop musicians. Social media campaigns, crowd funding and ‘meet and greet’ online chat sessions have become regular practices for some artists. Their relationships
with fan communities have been revolutionized.

IASPM Journal, the journal of the International Association for the Study of
Popular Music, wishes to encourage further research and debate in this area with a special issue on new directions in popular music fan research, to be published in 2016. We invite papers that draw on popular music studies and fan studies to offer insights and perspectives on different forms and practices of popular music
fandom. We are looking for a range of international perspectives from the
different localities and cultures that IASPM represents. For this special issue, we
are particularly interested in changes in popular music fandom and the new
methodologies that studying this subject requires.

Themes related to new directions in popular music fan studies can include, but
are not restricted to:

- Popular music genre fandom.
- Popular music fandom and professional music making.
- Popular music fandom and music in everyday life.
- Popular music fandom and social activism.
- Popular music fandom, celebrity and totemism.
- Popular music fandom and mythology.
- Popular music fandom and class identity.
- Histories of popular music fan communities.
- “Superfans� and media representations.
- Fan response to tribute acts.
- Popular music fandom and social media.
- Unsanctioned and closet forms of popular music fandom.
- “Anti-fans� of popular music.
- Popular music fandom and taste cultures.
- Race and popular music fandom.
- Place, pilgrimage and fan identity.
- Fan practices such as collecting.
- Fandom, nostalgia and generational memory.
- Fandom and the life cycle.

POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTORS MUST BE MEMBERS OF IASPM.
These authors are encouraged to submit a 300-word abstract including references, showing engagement with existing literature in both popular music studies and
fan studies, by 30 NOVEMBER 2015 to:

(koos.zwaan /at/ inholland.nl)

The submission deadline for articles will be 27 February 2016. Please register as an
Author and submit online, ensuring you are a current member of IASPM

Dr. Koos Zwaan (Inholland University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands)
Dr. Mark Duffett (University of Chester, UK)

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