East Asian Popular Music
Call for Papers for Popular Music Special Issue
Popular Music announces a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on
East Asian Popular Music. We are particularly interested in
submissions which address the transnational production and
circulation of East Asian Popular Music both within and outside the
East Asian region as a result of processes of globalisation and
digitalisation; the new ways that popular music is being configured
in relation to politics, society and technology under the legacy of
Anglo-American political and cultural hegemony; the rise and decline
of globalism; and (post)colonialism. These themes might include, for
example, the impact of Japanese pop culture since the 1990s, the
advancement of the Korean Wave (Hanryu) phenomenon in the 2000s, and
the rise of pop culture in China. We wish to prioritise research
which is exploring the way music is crossing existing borders and
blurring previous musical and cultural boundaries.
This issue will be the first special collection concerned with East
Asian Popular Music since the Special Issue in 1991 (vol. 10/3)
which focused on Japanese popular music. In the first instance, we
invite abstracts (max. 150 words) outlining the proposed
paper$B!G(Bs content, to reach us by 1 July 2010 (please send to
<mailto:(homey81 /at/ gmail.com)>(homey81 /at/ gmail.com)). All submissions will
need to be in English. We will publish a maximum of eight papers and
we therefore request that submitted papers are between 5,000 to
8,000 words in length.
An accepted abstract does not guarantee that a paper will definitely
be published because all submissions will go through the usual
refereeing procedures. We would ask you to please pass this
information on to others who might be interested.
Editors: Sarah Hill (for Popular Music editorial board): Hyunjoon
Shin (Guest Editor, South Korea): Tunghung Ho (Guest Editor,
Taiwan); Yoshitaka Mori (Guest Editor, Japan)
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