[ecrea] Call for book chapters - The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Musical Migration and Tourism

Call for Book Chapters

The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Musical Migration and Tourism
(Routledge 2013)

Edited by Simone Krüger (Liverpool John Moores University) and Ruxandra
Trandafoiu (Edge Hill University)

We are soliciting chapter proposals for an edited collection entitled
The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Musical Migration and Tourism to
be published by Routledge in 2013 in its Research in Ethnomusicology
Series. (Please note that the book is contractually agreed.) The book
studies musical transformations as they occur across time and space,
exploring contemporary concerns about the impact of globalization on
musics and peoples as they transit across the globe. The book’s focus is
on two main themes: musical tourism and travel; musical migration and
diaspora.

We invite authors working in all areas of ethnomusicology, anthropology,
sociology, popular music studies, media and cultural studies,
social/cultural geography, and other relevant disciplines and fields of
study to propose a book chapter on either theme. Both single and
multiple-authored works will be considered. The book will not be limited
to specific musics, peoples or geographical areas; however, an element
of ethnographic approaches would be anticipated.

Contributors are particularly invited to engage with specific sub-themes
and issues under each theme:

·         Musical migration and diaspora. Under this theme, we invite
book chapters that engage with one or more of the following sub-themes:
diasporic production; the circulation and consumption of musics; the
re-writing of the concept of diaspora through cultural production in
relation to, but also outside of, national culture; the formation of
transnational tastes and cosmopolitan imaginations; the liquidity of
globalized cultures; the role of music in creating symbolic geographies
and diasporic double-consciousness; specific instances of cultural
translation and adaptation.

·         Musical tourism and travel. Authors are invited to explore one
or more of the following sub-themes: musical pilgrimage; the material
and social flows of travellers and musicians; the cultural and economic
policies that promote music tourism; festivals and performances for
tourists; ethnographies of touristic encounters with music; the place of
music in the representation of tourism destinations; the role of music
in the construction of tourist discourses; narratives and memories.

Anyone interested in submitting a chapter for consideration should in
the first instance send a proposal to the editors (see below). The
proposal should include: (1) a summary of the chapter (abstract, max.
500 words), addressing its aim and objectives, research methods, and
contribution to the existing literature, specifically in relation to a
chosen theme and sub-theme(s); (2) an indication of the number and type
of images or illustrations to be included, and whether copyright will
need to be sought; (3) a brief biographical note.

Deadlines for submission of:
·         Proposal: 20 October 2011.
·         Chapter (ca. 7,000 words): 30 March 2012
Please e-mail your abstracts to the editors: (S.Kruger /at/ ljmu.ac.uk) and
(trandar /at/ edgehill.ac.uk).


Further particulars:

-Title: Routledge needs their titles to be as explanatory as possible,
as well as keyword heavy for searches and the like.

-Word count: 7,000 per chapter (110,000 in total)

-Images: ca. 2 per chapter (20 in total).

-Permissions: Please note that authors are responsible for obtaining
permission for any copyrighted materials (all images, prose exceeding
500 words, more than 2 lines of poetry). This is often a very drawn out
process, so it's best to begin as soon as possible.

-Gratis copies: 1 per contributor

-Cover: To make things uniform, all books in this series have the same
template cover design.

-Series: Routledge Research in Ethnomusicology

-Publishing plan: Initially, the book will be published as hard cover,
library standard editions, which wand university libraries (though of course it will also be marketed in
Routledge catalogues, and available at relevant conferences where
Routledge is represented). The initial print run will be fairly
small-250 copies or so, and pricing ($110+) will reflect our focus on
the library market.

-Marketing: Routledge will begin marketing the book on their website and
catalogues shortly as follows:

This book studies musical transformations in transit as they occur
across time and space, exploring contemporary concerns about some of the
impacts of globalization of musics and peoples as they transit across
the globe. While taking diverse perspectives in embracing the
contemporary musical landscape, the collection offers a range of
research methods and theoretical approaches from ethnomusicology,
anthropology, sociology, popular music studies, and media and cultural
studies, thus providing interdisciplinary contributions to
ethnomusicological studies of contemporary musical processes inspired by
musical globalizations. Discussions on migration and diaspora advance
discourse on new symbolic geographies mapped by the production,
adaptation, and consumption of musics in transit. Elsewhere, essays on
cultural travel and tourism raise concerns about the commodification of
tradition and heritage, asking questions about cultural gain and loss,
consumption, and performance. Tourism and migration are two key
globalizing elements, and the book's combination of migration/diaspora
and tourism allows for an exploration of the juxtaposition of phenomena
like cosmopolitan empathy, advocacy, and responsibility versus the
commodification of the other, capitalism, and inequality. While the
contributions reach across disciplines, they are united by an
ethnomusicological concern with local experience and new community
formation. Departing from established theories (e.g. globalization),
this book questions current conceptualizations of musical phenomena
while focusing on sub-themes such as the post-national or the
cosmopolitan imagination, which are recent and little explored additions
to ethnomusicology's theoretical portfolio.





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