[ecrea] CFP: Technologies and Recording Industries Creative Industries Journal (Fall 2015)

CFP: Technologies and Recording Industries
Creative Industries Journal, Special Issue 8.2 (Fall 2015)

Deadline: March 6, 2015

The past 15 years have proven transformative for music recording 
industries around the world, as digital technologies from the ground up 
(mp3s) and the top down (streaming platforms) have helped transform the 
landscape of production, promotion, distribution, retail, and fandom. 
Yet while these transformations have recently upended assumptions about 
musical practice for artists, industry workers, fans, journalists, and 
researchers, a broader historical perspective situates them in a legacy 
more than a century long. Indeed, a history of recording industries told 
from a media and technology perspective is one of constant flux. The 
introduction of new media technologies has continually reorganized the 
practices, regimes of value, discourses, and power relationships of the 
recording business.

This issue of the Creative Industries Journal seeks to address the 
constitutive roles of technologies in shaping recording industry 
practices. How have the introduction and adoption of new tools of 
production, distribution, promotion, or consumption facilitated changes 
in the creative and industrial practices surrounding popular music in a 
variety of global contexts? Following Williamson & Cloonan (2007) and 
Sterne (2014), we specify “recording industries” instead of “music 
industries” to focus attention on the myriad creative and industrial 
processes related to music (or, broadly, sound) recordings, and to evade 
the tendency to group a variety of disparate music and sound-related 
industries (licensing, instrument sales, live performance) under one 
heading. We use the plural to assert the multiplicity and variety of 
recording industries that have emerged over time, which may not have 
anything to do with the current corporate-owned, multinational recording 
industry.

Possible topics for this issue include, but aren’t limited to:

* Connections between technological formats and genres
* Streaming services and music distribution
* Discourses surrounding the vinyl record resurgence
* Collectors and collecting practices
* Record stores and the recording industries
* New technologies and global/local regimes of representation
* Music, technology, and identity
* Industry practices of the digital music era
* Trade papers and the recording industries
* Media mobility vs. audio fidelity
* Sound recordings and radio
* Television and the recording industry
* Failed or ephemeral formats
* Re-issues and new formats
* Record label histories
* Technological experimentation
* From cylinder to disk
* Recordings as material culture
* The history of personal recordings
* Internationalization of recording technologies/industries
* The recording industry and children’s media
* Spoken-word phonography
* Taste-making and technologies

To be considered for publication, articles should be between 5000 and 
6000 words, double-spaced in Harvard Style. For more information on 
style and formatting, please see Intellect’s style guide. All 
submissions in these categories will be blind reviewed. Queries 
regarding potential submissions also are welcome. Authors are 
responsible for acquiring related visual images and the associated 
copyrights. For more information or to submit a query, please contact 
the issue’s editors Kyle Barnett ((kbarnett /at/ bellarmine.edu)) or Eric 
Harvey ((ericharvey /at/ weber.edu)) All submissions are due via email by March 
6, 2015.

Creative Industries Journal is a peer reviewed journal with a global 
scope, primarily aimed at those studying and practicing activities which 
have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent, and which 
have a potential for wealth creation. These activities primarily take 
place in advertising, architecture, the art and antiques market, crafts, 
design, fashion, film, interactive leisure software, music, the 
performing arts, publishing, television and radio.

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Eric Harvey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
Weber State University
1395 Edvalson St.
Ogden, UT 84408

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