CFP - Music, Sound, and the Moving Image

CALL FOR ARTICLES

Music, Sound, and the Moving Image will be the first international scholarly journal devoted to the study of the interaction between music and sound with the entirety of moving image media – film, television, music video, advertising, computer games, mixed-media installation, digital art, live cinema, et alia. To be published by Liverpool University Press and co-edited by Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool University) and Ian Gardiner (Goldsmiths College), the journal will be truly interdisciplinary, inviting contributions across a range of critical methodologies, to include musicology and music analysis, film studies, popular music studies, cultural theory, aesthetics, semiotics, sociology, marketing, sound studies, and music psychology. It is hoped that the journal also will provide an important focus for the similarly diverse and expanding community of media music scholars.

The journal will be published twice a year, beginning January 2007, and its first issues will be open, embracing this diversity of topics and approaches. As it progresses it is intended that themed issues, under a guest editor, will alternate with open issues, perhaps encouraging writers to explore areas under-represented in current literature. The editors welcome contributions offering the broadest interpretation of the journal's title, not only seeking to build upon the existing scholarship on film music and film sound, but also to challenge its theoretical assumptions, and to extend its boundaries to include the full variety of moving image media and traditions.

We would particularly welcome articles in these areas:
· Music in Television
· Computer Games
· Bollywood and other Asian Cinemas
· Cross-cultural perspectives
· Modern Accompaniments to Silent Film
· Live VJ-ing and Re-soundtracking
· Genre and the Industry
· Dubbing and sound mix strategies
· The Film Musical
· Gender and Performativity
· Music and Sound in Early Sound Film
· Music / Sound Strategies in Avant-Garde Cinema
· Orchestration / the Role of the Orchestrator
· Synaesthesia / Visual Music
· Music, Sound, and Subjectivity
· Library / Stock Music
· Soundtrack Fan Cultures
· Music and Advertising

Submissions for the inaugural issue should be e-mailed, by 1 August 2006 , as Microsoft Word documents to journal@liv.ac.uk

Enquiries or requests for style guidelines should also be directed to this address.

-- Music, Sound, and the Moving Image Liverpool University Press
Prof. Anahid Kassabian, Ian Gardiner (editors)
Markus Wyrwich (editorial assistant)

School of MusicUniversity of Liverpool
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Liverpool L69 7WW
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+44 0151 794 3141 (fax)