[ecrea] MEDIANZ CFP music / media /politics

music / media / politics

a special issue of MEDIANZ (https://medianz.otago.ac.nz/medianz)



Popular music is one of the key cultural sites for contemporary 
political struggle. In the media, we see rock songs and stars harnessed 
by politicians in order to gain credibility with demographics and the 
antics of pop stars generate public discussion on issues such as gender, 
race, class and sexuality.

However, music is most often encountered as a part of our everyday 
mediated lives. These moments of banal engagement – listening to music 
on the train, pirating tracks at work, following musicians on twitter 
– are also political. Media representations of music (music videos, 
social media feeds, lyrics etc.), as well as the experience of 
‘musicking’, reveal the machinations of the contemporary music 
culture industry – as well as potential spaces of negotiation and 
resistance by consumers and producers. We particularly encourage 
submissions relating to contemporary intersections between music, media 
and politics in Aotearoa / New Zealand and the wider Australia-Pacific 
region. If selected by the editors, submissions are blind peer-reviewed. 
Other possible areas of inquiry include

· music and cultural publics

· music and radical politics

· politics of media representations in music

· music subcultures / music scenes

· political-economies of music and social media

· music and the ‘blogosphere’

· music modalities (the return of the record etc.)

· politics of music and the ‘retro revival’



Submitters need to register with the journal via their website prior to 
submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the 
five-step process. Please direct general enquiries to the guest editors:

Rosemary Overell - (rosemary.overell /at/ otago.ac.nz) and

Oli Wilson - (oli.wilson /at/ otago.ac.nz)



Deadline for submissions: 1st April 2015


Author Guidelines
Articles should be around 8,000 words in length including endnotes and 
bibliography.
Suubmissions must follow the Author Guidelines which are available here: 
https://medianz.otago.ac.nz/medianz/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

About MEDIANZ
International in scope yet regional in its commitment, the Media Studies 
Journal of Aotearoa New Zealand invites scholarly work that reflects the 
diversity of media studies in terms of territories, technologies, 
cultures, users and governance. Whether looking outside-in or 
inside-out, MEDIANZ publishes local and international media scholarship, 
particularly of relevance to New Zealand. This includes film/media 
production and policy in small nations; settler, indigenous and migrant 
articulations of place and identity; global, satellite and diasporic 
media flows; and situated social media and digital practices. The 
Journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle 
that making research freely available to the public supports a greater 
global exchange of knowledge. For more information about their Copyright 
Policy and Privacy Statment visit the MEDIANZ website: 
https://medianz.otago.ac.nz/medianz.


Rosemary Overell
Lecturer
Media Film and Communication
The University of Otago
Dunedin NZ 9054
(rosemary.overell /at/ otago.ac.nz)
http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/otago052355.html
0212875279



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