[ecrea] Call for papers: Music Sound and the Moving Image

*Music, Sound, and the Moving Image* was the first international 
scholarly journal devoted to the study of the interaction between music 
and sound with the entirety of moving image media – film, television, 
music video, advertising, computer games, mixed-media installation, 
digital art, live cinema, et alia.

Co-edited by Anahid Kassabian (University of Liverpool) and Ian Gardiner 
(Goldsmiths College), the journal is truly interdisciplinary, inviting 
contributions across a range of critical methodologies, including 
musicology and music analysis, film studies, popular music studies, 
cultural theory, aesthetics, semiotics, sociology, marketing, sound 
studies, and music psychology.

*Call for Papers – Special Issue on Gender and Sexuality*

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*Gender and sexuality*

Special Issue Editor: Catherine Haworth

Research into the function and effect of the soundtrack in audiovisual 
media continues to develop and diversify, but investigation of the 
theories and ideologies of difference remain underrepresented within 
these debates. One such area is that of gendered and sexual difference, 
where despite significant contributions by several scholars, a 
systematic, focused, and extensive body of work has yet to emerge. 
Submissions that consider the sonic representation, articulation, or 
dissemination of gendered and sexual identities or ideologies are 
therefore invited for this special issue of /Music, Sound, and the 
Moving Image/, which aims to build upon the strengths of existing work 
and explore new directions for future research.

Contributions may take the form of full length essays (around 7,500 
words) or shorter position papers (1,000-1,500 words) that articulate a 
particular analytical, critical, theoretical, or methodological 
standpoint or issue. The journal is also committed to publishing English 
translations of significant articles from other languages, and proposals 
or recommendations for translations within the remit of this edition are 
also welcome. Topics that contributors may wish to address include, but 
are not limited to:

· The application or relevance of queer theory or notions of difference 
to any aspect of the soundtrack

· The collapse of categories of difference together within the space of 
the soundtrack

· Feminist analyses of individual texts, or feminist approaches to wider 
issues or concepts within soundtrack studies

· Masculinities and their sonic articulation or problematisation within 
audiovisual media

· The relationship(s) between subjectivity, gender, and sexuality in 
multimedia texts and/or their audiences

· Relationships between gender, sexuality and the voice in audiovisual 
media, including any aspects of spoken or sung vocality

· The engagement of the soundtrack with gendered character archetypes 
and their various roles, behaviours, and potential audience appeals – 
the 'hero', 'heroine', 'femme fatale', 'villain' etc. and their 
incarnations across various media forms and genres

· The role(s) and effects of gender and sexuality within production, 
distribution, and marketing practices in audiovisual media

· Consideration of gendered and sexual identities within audience, fan, 
and reception cultures, including ethnographic or psychologically-based 
approaches

· The relationship between star and fan texts, identities, and cultures 
with gender, sexuality, and the soundtrack

The final deadline for submissions is *31 October 2011*. Please send any 
queries to Catherine Haworth (c.m.haworth /at/ leeds.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(c.m.haworth /at/ leeds.ac.uk)>

For more information on Music Sound and the Moving Image, please see our 
website: 
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3727