Call for Papers: Please distribute widely
As Time Goes By: Popular Music, Ageing and Elders
a special issue of â??Popular Musicâ??
Editor Jan Fairley, Guest Editor Murray Forman
Popular music studies has accommodated themes pertaining to age yet on the
whole the emphasis has been almost exclusively on issues related to youth,
tastes and practices of young people worldwide. Indeed much published
research has been Euro-US rock centric, the pre-occupation of a generation
of (white, male) rock scholars. Yet everyone knows that old as well as
young people create, consume and enjoy popular music.
In this special issue of "Popular Music" we invite scholars to re-appraise
the emphasis on popular music, youth and young people by focusing on
popular music and age, exploring a wider range of age issues as they
influence our understandings of popular music in different cultural
environments and social settings.
The journal seeks submissions that explicitly analyze age and ageing with
special attention to the experience of the elder population (especially
those 55 years of age and older) in relation to the production, reception
and aesthetics of popular music. Submissions will ideally encompass aspects
related to musical genres, audience formations, audience practices, race
and ethnic distinctions, gender, music technologies and their uses, musical
performance by and for elders as well as industry practices including
marketing and promotions in relation to the elder consumer demographic.
Abstracts (roughly 500 words) with brief CV should be sent by December 15,
2009 to:
(jan.fairley /at/ blueyonder.co.uk))
or
(m.forman /at/ neu.edu)
