[ecrea] CfP - Dark Leisure and Music Symposium

Call for Papers
Dark Leisure and Music Symposium
16^th  September 2016
Leeds Beckett University
Cavendish G09, Headingley Campus, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
Deadline for submissions: *15*^*th* * May 2016*
‘Dark Leisure and Music’ is an interdisciplinary symposium, hosted by 
Leeds Beckett University, Centre for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, 
that aims to address issues related to dark leisure research and 
encourage dark leisure scholarship in music. Dark leisure may be defined 
as leisure activity that sits on the fringes of modern society tastes, 
and activity that rejects the mainstream. Around the turn of the 
century, Chris Rojek started looking at dark leisure as ‘deviant’ and 
chose to interpret this type of leisure mostly as detrimental to the 
individual, in line with criminological approaches. While dark leisure 
has been investigated by criminologists and psychologists as abnormal 
behaviour, recent scholarship in this area such as the works of Karl 
Spracklen, Philip Stone, and D. J. Williams has shown the need to take 
dark leisure from a different moral perspective than previous research. 
Moreover, this type of leisure has been scarcely explored in relation to 
music cultures. Music worlds ‘on the edge’ could be important spaces for 
dark leisure activity which have Habermasian communicative rationality 
at heart; and in effect, they could provide essential channels for 
performing liminal identities.
We invite submissions addressing following issues and others:

-  Leisure activity in transgressive music cultures
-  Morality and transgression in fringe musics
-  Identity and performativity through ‘extreme’ music
-  Liminal subcultural positions within bigger music cultures
-  Critical perspectives on approaches to dark leisure

Scholars from different areas and disciplines including, but not limited 
to, sociology, musicology, ethnomusicology, leisure and tourism, 
history, geography, urban studies, media and communication studies, 
popular music studies, metal music studies, and cultural studies are 
welcome to submit a proposal. Proposals of no more than 300 words should 
be sent to (m.s.yavuz /at/ leedsbeckett.ac.uk) before *15*^*th* * May 2016* 
along with a short running text biography of maximum 150 words. The time 
for each presentation will be 20 minutes accompanied by a 10-minute 
discussion. Accepted proposals and the conference programme will be 
announced on 15^th  June 2016. Selected papers from the conference will 
be encouraged to submit for possible publication in the journal Annals 
of Leisure Research as a special issue (volume 21, issue 3, 2018). The 
article submissions should be a maximum length of 9000 words to be 
submitted by 31^st  January 2017 and will go through a double-blind review.

More information: http://darkleisureandmusic.mselimyavuz.com/

Contact: (m.s.yavuz /at/ leedsbeckett.ac.uk)

Organisers:
Karl Spracklen, Leeds Beckett University (UK)
Samantha Holland, Leeds Beckett University (UK)
M. Selim Yavuz, Leeds Beckett University (UK)

About Annals of Leisure Research:
Annals of Leisure Research publishes refereed articles which promote the 
development of research and scholarship in leisure studies. Although 
originating in Australasia, Annals is aimed at an international 
readership and seeks theoretical or applied articles which cover any 
topic within the broad area of leisure studies, including recreation, 
tourism, hospitality, the arts, outdoor recreation, events, 
entertainment, sport, culture and play.
All research articles in this journal will have undergone rigorous 
double-blind peer review, based on initial editor screening and 
refereeing by at least two anonymous reviewers.

The journal can be accessed online from 
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ranz20​;

Managing Editor: Neil Carr, University of Otago
Deputy Editor: David McGillivray, University of West Scotland​


M. Selim Yavuz

PhD Student, Centre for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Carnegie 
Faculty,Leeds Beckett University

Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, Environment and Technology, Leeds 
Beckett University

Editorial Assistant, Metal Music Studies Journal

Leeds Beckett University

Headingley Campus, Churchwood 103

Leeds LS6 3QS UK

E: (m.s.yavuz /at/ leedsbeckett.ac.uk) <mailto:(m.s.yavuz /at/ leedsbeckett.ac.uk)>


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