[ecrea] Call for Papers - New Directions in Music Fan Studies (Deadline 30th November 2015)

REMINDER: Call for Papers (Deadline 30th November 2015)

I@J 6/1 (2016)
New Directions in Music Fan Studies
Edited by Dr. Koos Zwaan and Dr. Mark Duffett

Popular music fandom has received widespread media attention since the early
years of postwar music. Elvis Presley evoked strong fan responses and 
generated
monumental opposition from “anti-fans�. “Beatlemania� shaped 
many young
people’s experiences of the 1960s. Fandom is associated with specific 
cultural
practices, from listening to records and making music, to paramusical 
activities
such as wearing t-shirts, or collecting set lists, participating in fan 
media (blogs,
fiction, graphics), or adorning one’s body with tattoos of band logos.

The advent of social media has brought new possibilities for fan-celebrity
interaction. Established cultures have taken new forms. For example, fan 
letters
and fanzines have not disappeared but, rather, have transformed to 
exploit the
possibilities of new media. Fandom has also taken on different meanings 
for pop
musicians. Social media campaigns, crowd funding and ‘meet and 
greet’ online
chat sessions have become regular practices for some artists. Their 
relationships
with fan communities have been revolutionized.

IASPM Journal, the journal of the International Association for the Study of
Popular Music, wishes to encourage further research and debate in this 
area with
a special issue on new directions in popular music fan research, to be 
published
in 2016. We invite papers that draw on popular music studies and fan 
studies to
offer insights and perspectives on different forms and practices of 
popular music
fandom. We are looking for a range of international perspectives from the
different localities and cultures that IASPM represents. For this 
special issue, we
are particularly interested in changes in popular music fandom and the new
methodologies that studying this subject requires.

Themes related to new directions in popular music fan studies can 
include, but
are not restricted to:

- Popular music genre fandom.
- Popular music fandom and professional music making.
- Popular music fandom and music in everyday life.
- Popular music fandom and social activism.
- Popular music fandom, celebrity and totemism.
- Popular music fandom and mythology.
- Popular music fandom and class identity.
- Histories of popular music fan communities.
- “Superfans� and media representations.
- Fan response to tribute acts.
- Popular music fandom and social media.
- Unsanctioned and closet forms of popular music fandom.
- “Anti-fans� of popular music.
- Popular music fandom and taste cultures.
- Race and popular music fandom.
- Place, pilgrimage and fan identity.
- Fan practices such as collecting.
- Fandom, nostalgia and generational memory.
- Fandom and the life cycle.

POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTORS MUST BE MEMBERS OF IASPM.
These authors are encouraged to submit a 300-word abstract including 
references,
showing engagement with existing literature in both popular music 
studies and
fan studies, by 30 NOVEMBER 2015 to:

(koos.zwaan /at/ inholland.nl)

The submission deadline for articles will be 27 February 2016. Please 
register as an
Author and submit online, ensuring you are a current member of IASPM

Dr. Koos Zwaan (Inholland University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands)
Dr. Mark Duffett (University of Chester, UK)

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