[Commlist] cfp: Rock Music Studies: After All This Time: Legacy Acts, Fandom, and Collective Identity

*Call for Papers*

*Special Issue of /Rock Music Studies/*

*After All This Time: Legacy Acts, Fandom, and Collective Identity*

*Guest-edited by Andy Bennett and Devpriya Chakravarty (Griffith 
University, Australia)*

Submissions are invited for a special issue of /Rock Music Studies/ on 
the topic of Legacy Acts, Fandom, and Collective Identity. Popular music 
is now increasingly acknowledged as a key aspect of contemporary history 
and heritage. The marketing of popular music as a form of youth-based 
leisure and consumption from the mid-1950s onward has had significant 
implications for its cultural meaning as a collective soundtrack and a 
means through which successive generations of youth have sought to 
distinguish themselves from the parent culture. This aspect of the 
relationship between popular music and youth became more pointed during 
the 1960s and into the 1970s with a new political sensibility among 
youth, and was also reflected in much of the popular music of the time, 
which gave rise to a global counter-cultural movement. This sensibility 
continued to reverberate in subsequent musical genres such as punk, 
post-punk and new wave.

Throughout this period, many commentators considered such collective 
bonding between artists and their audiences to be an ephemeral aspect of 
youth culture. By the early 1980s, however, it became clear that such an 
interpretation was inaccurate as bands such as the Grateful Dead 
continued to tour and to perform to audiences comprised largely of 
people who had been followers of the band since its early years and had 
continued to loyally support them, often following the band on tour and 
attending multiple shows. The Grateful Dead, though perhaps among the 
most notorious of bands to attract such a dedicated and cult following, 
are by no means the only act to achieve such a status. When Canadian 
rock band Rush played their final shows in 2015, many fans reflected on 
the special relationship they experienced with the band and how they 
felt their lives had been palpably shaped by listening to the music of 
Rush and seeing the band perform live on numerous occasions over a 
period of 40 years. Indeed, over the last 20 years it has become clear 
that a range of artists, spanning different genres and from different 
parts of the world, have attracted and retained an audience for whom 
fandom is signified by the inscription of a deep biographical meaning in 
the artist-fan relationship. Examples of the legacy act phenomenon in a 
more global context include BAP (Germany), UHF (Portugal), Diaframma 
(Italy), Aquarium (Russia), New Model Army (UK), Molotov (Mexico), Os 
Paralamas do Sucesso (Brazil), Bow Wow (Japan), and Radio Birdman 
(Australia). This special edition of /Rock Music Studies/ will feature 
papers that explore aspects of the legacy band phenomenon in a global 
context.

We invite papers with themes that may include but are not limited to:

Politics and lifestyle

Gender and sexuality

Race and ethnicity

Music and lyrics

Rituals of performance (among both band and audience)

Cultural memory

Peak music experiences

Fanzines and others forms of fan writing

Memorabilia

Iconography

Send proposals of up to 500 words by 30 June 2022 to guest editor Andy 
Bennett at (a.bennett /at/ griffith.edu.au) <mailto:(a.bennett /at/ griffith.edu.au)>. 
Indicate the name under which you would wish to be published, your 
professional/academic affiliations, a postal address, and preferred 
e-mail contact. Proposals will be reviewed for potential inclusion in 
the journal, with authors of selected papers being informed by 15 August 
2022.

Authors to be included in the volume should expect to have their full, 
final manuscripts prepared by 1 August 2023. These submissions should be 
between 6,000 and 8,000 words (inclusive of everything) and should use 
MLA style. All affiliations, e-mails, and snail-mail contact information 
should be supplied in the first submission; however, for purposes of 
blind peer-review, your name or the names of your co-authors should not 
appear in the body of the manuscript. All papers will be peer-reviewed 
by at least two peers as well as the two guest editors of the special 
issue. We are happy to receive inquiries about prospective submissions. 
Please send all queries to (a.bennett /at/ griffith.edu) 
<mailto:(a.bennett /at/ griffith.edu)>. It is expected that the special issue 
will be published in hard copy in October 2024 (with electronic 
publication occurring earlier). For more information and step-by-step 
publishing guidance, visit the journal's Author Services Support 
<http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/>page. For further 
information on the journal, please visit 
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rrms20 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rrms20>


*/Please note/*: There are no submission fees, publication fees or page 
charges for this journal and authors will not be asked for an APC for 
publication upon selection.



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